urban weekly #25

What is INP and why you should care - INP = Interaction to Next Paint, and it will replace First Input Delay (FID) on March 12 performance

WebSockets vs Server-Sent-Events vs Long-Polling vs WebRTC vs WebTransport - Short but really good overview of network techniques network

Postgres is eating the database world - In fact, I only use postgresql if I need an SQL db (sometimes an SQLite) sql, postgresql

The problem with using a UUID primary key in MySQL - TIL: in uuid v4 the first position in the third segment of the uuid will always be 4 oO uuids

Introducing our team, investors & more... - Oh wow, the creator of npm is joining the vlt team! vlt

Web Neural Network API - A low-level API for neural network inference hardware acceleration. webnn

sh.mjs - Shorthand JavaScript - nice idea! javascript

require(esm) in Node.js - If you haven't switched to esm already this will be quite helpful. nodejs, esm

Announcing VitePress 1.0 - 1.0 of VitePress! vitepress

Node.js landing page - Node.js released a brand new landing page and it's such a big improvement. nodejs

How web bloat impacts users with slow devices - Take care about your app size! performance

11 ways to get better feedback from your manager - Hard truths about why your manager isn’t giving you more feedback--and what to do about it. career

Architecture of an early stage SAAS - Insights from feelback.dev startup, architecture

Grep by example: Interactive guide - grep is the ultimate text search tool available on virtually all Linux machines. While there are now better alternatives (such as ripgrep), you will still often find yourself on a server where grep is the... grep

Passkeys - under the hood - Detailed walkthrough to passkeys passkeys, auth

Optimizing Javascript for fun and for profit - Some good hints that can bring a lot of performance benefits. javascript, performance

Brutally honest career advice to my younger self - Advice by the founder of AppSumo! advice, career

Creatica - Generate SVG Backgrounds to elevate your designs svg

Runtime compatibility - Display APIs compatibility across different JavaScript runtimes. compatibility

Magnify - Bookmarklet code for magnifying a website. bookmarklet

Serverless Postgres Platform - With a to-good-to-be-true-free-tier! postgresql

jnv - interactive JSON filter using jq cli, json

capo.js - Get your <head> in order performance

Blobmaker - Quickly create random, unique, and organic-looking SVG shapes. svg

This person does not exist - Create random faces that don't exist. images

react-json-view-lite - Lightweight Json view component for React json, react

Spectacle - A React.js based library for creating sleek presentations using JSX syntax that gives you the ability to live demo your code. react, presentations

TLD-List - Compare Prices of All Top-Level Domains tlds, domains

CartoSVG - Design gorgeous and lightweight SVG maps with ease svg, maps

emojisplosion - Explosion effect with emojis animations

MistCSS - Write React components using CSS only css, react

pgwire - PostgreSQL wire protocol implemented as a rust library. postgres, rust

Atrament - A small JS library for beautiful drawing and handwriting on the HTML Canvas. canvas

oneRepo - Easy, strict, safe, and fast JavaScript & TypeScript monorepo toolchain for high performance teams. monorepo

Join Repo - Selling a boilerplate, template, or a library? Stop manually inviting people to your private GitHub repos. - Still in the beginning but the idea is nice. products

Pigment CSS - Pigment CSS is a zero-runtime CSS-in-JS library that extracts the colocated styles to their own CSS files at build time. css

dropflow - A CSS layout engine css

Color in Between - Explore the Spectrum with Colors in Between colors

The New Free Fonts Every Designer Should Have - Neo Brutalist <3 fonts

This scroll effect <3 - This is not an article but an awesome scroll effect! animations

css2wind - Translate the CSS property to its Tailwind CSS equivalent css, tailwind

three mandatory scripts in package.json - yolo-push ftw! npm

I’m So Old: Web Edition - I'm too old, too xD web

Build a Node App with TypeScript - pnpm, nodejs, typescript (of course ), es modules boilerplate

A Beginner's Guide to Node.js Worker Threads - I like nodes general single thread policy but if you really really need more than one thread that's a good starting point. nodejs, threads

Use CSS shape-outside to wrap text around shapes - Nice effect with just a bit of css. css

DuckDB as the New jq - Use DuckDB to query json files. json, duckdb

Another JS Registry. Seriously?! - Everything you need to know about JavaScript's new open source registry, JSR. jsr

Is Drizzle Really Better Than Prisma? - Complete comparison between two of the most popular TypeScript ORM libs. prisma, drizzle

Node.js: The Documentary - An origin story - <3 nodejs

The Story of Astro DB - The Astro team recently launched Astro DB – an efficient, local first, replicable database. This is that story. astro

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Published on 2024-03-25, last updated on 2024-05-10 by Adam

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Adam Urban is fullstack engineer, loves serverless and generative art, and is building side projects like weeklyfoo.com, flethy.com and diypunks.xyz in his free time.