urban weekly #9

Need a PRNG? Use a CSPRNG - Random numbers, but better. random, rags

Unexpected upsides of building a hard startup - Hard startups story startups

Retries - An interactive study of common retry methods http requests, retries

Understanding Deep Learning - Free book about deep learning deep learning

The best inventions of 2023 - 200 innovations changing how we live inventions

Demystifying Web Push Notifications - All about web push web push

Just Ship, Baby - No excuses not to ship delivery

HTML Dom - Code snippets to manipulate the DOM dom

Node Chardet - Character encoding detection tool for NodeJS encoding, nodejs

Leaked GPTs - List of leaked GPTs ai, gpt

Weird HTML Hacks - 10 hacky website coding strategies hacks, web

Writing Documentation for Your House - Never thought about it, but makes totally sense. docs

Astro 4.0 Beta Release - Beta of next major version of Astro astro

Announcing Deno Cron - Scheduled function invocations deno, cron

Firefox Developer Edition and Beta: Try out Mozilla’s .deb package! - Firefox new deb package firefox, linux

Tech predictions for 2024 and beyond - I love predictions ;) 2024, predictions

The evolving landscape of API protocols in 2023 - Nice overview about api protocols api, protocols

6 tiny wording tweaks to level up your communication as a software engineer - 6 small tipps communication

IP Guide - Your guide to internet numbers ips

UI Faces - A growing library of free, AI-generated, high-resolution avatars for design mockups, thoughtfully curated to suit all your creative needs faces

Colour Contrast Checker - a11y color checker a11y

Secretlint - Pluggable linting tool to prevent committing credential. linters, secrets

AWS lite - simple, extremely fast, extensible Node.js client for interacting with AWS aws, nodejs

Process Compose - Process Compose is a simple and flexible scheduler and orchestrator to manage non-containerized applications. orchestrator

Grimoire - Bookmark manager for the wizards bookmarks

Biome - A toolchain for web projects, aimed to provide functionalities to maintain them. Biome offers formatter and linter, usable via CLI and LSP. linters, formatters

CSS Animotion - CSS Animations with No-Code css, animations

jaq - A jq clone focussed on correctness, speed, and simplicity json, cli

llamafile - Distribute and run LLMs with a single file. ai, llama

Beautiful-tree - Beautiful-Tree is a lightweight & flexible library to draw trees as SVG images. react, svg

svg.io - Text prompt to SVG ai, svg

Guthub wrapped - Metrics around your github profile github

qdorks - Composing Advanced Google Queries, made easy. google, search

Free Profile Picture Generator - Provided by HeadshotPro ai, pfp

quivr - Your GenAI Second Brain ai, second brain

Emailspiration - The best emails, hand picked by the team building Audienceful. emails, templates

An accessible website won’t be beautiful… really?! - Tipps about a11y with lots of useful tools a11y

Crafting A Killer Brand Identity For A Digital Product - How to create a brand identity brand

Reddit Sans - The typeface of the internet. fonts

Cookie Permissions 101 - Cookie permissions need to follow the law and strike the balance between respecting user privacy and being user-friendly. cookies, consent

Marbla - Marbla is an experimental display typeface exploring the possibilities of variable fonts to change the mood and personality of a typeface. fonts

Microsoft Paint’s OpenAI-powered ‘Cocreator’ image generator is here - Paint with DALL-E ai, microsoft, paint

10 JavaScript changes you missed in 2023 - Watch it, just around 6 minutes javascript