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The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Must Know About Unicode in 2023 - Ever wanted to learn the basics about Unicode? Read this blog post by Nikita. unicode, knowledge

Gmail is getting emoji reactions - lol, but y? gmail

Cloud Costs Every Programmer Should Know - A basic understanding about what your resources cost is essential. cloud, costs

Death by a thousand microservices - What a fun and really good blog post. One of my highlights this week. architecture

Was Javascript really made in 10 days? - TLDR: no ;) javascript

instant.dev - New Postgres-focused ORM library available! orm, postgres

Epic Easing - Easily create curve animations css

VaVite - Develop server side apps with Vite vite, server

zany - easy, free & configurable hosted favicons favicons

easy-speech - Cross browser Speech Synthesis also known as Text to speech or TTS; no dependencies; uses Web Speech API speech

charts css - It uses CSS utility classes to style HTML elements as charts. css, charts

craft.js - React framework for building powerful & feature-rich drag-n-drop page editors react, page editor

UserStock - Free photos of people's faces to use as avatars in UI mockups, prototypes and more. photos, people

neobrutalism components - A collection of type-safe components written in React and Tailwind react, components

Harmony - Accessible UI Color Palette colors, a11y

9 Simple But Powerful UX Writing Tips for Designers in 2024 - Quick read with some good advice. ux, writing

Color Claims - Super simple but nice two color combinations colors

Shuttle - Build & ship backends without writing any infrastructure files, for Rust! rust, infra

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Published on 2023-10-07, last updated on 2025-05-21 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.

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