urban weekly #105
weekly tech news so you don't have to read all the internet
Good to know
How I influence tech company politics as a staff software engineer - Many software engineers are fatalistic about company politics. engineering
BrowserPod - In-browser full-stack environments for IDEs and Agents via Wasm wasm
cleaning house in nx monorepo, how i removed 120 unused deps safely - Short version, I ran Knip across our Nx repo, took the unused list as a hint, deleted candidates, built, tested, booted apps, and put a few back when they were secretly used. dependencies, npm
vercel vs cloudflare - two philosophies of building for developers vercel, cloudflare
Which Table Format Do LLMs Understand Best? - Results for 11 Formats llms, ai
AI and Home-Cooked Software - Everyone is worried that AI will replace programmers. They’re missing the real revolution: AI is turning everyone into one. ai, engineering
You're Only Using 20% of Claude Code - Here's How to Unlock the Rest - Most devs are underutilizing Claude Code. These 5 advanced strategies will turn it into your most powerful engineering teammate claude, ai
Scaling Engineering Teams - Lessons from Google, Facebook, and Netflix engineering, performance 🔥
Code and Tools
Markdown Printer - Save web pages as Markdown files with preserved formatting. Perfect for documentation, articles, and note-taking. markdown
Minimal PWA - Minimal files + config for a PWA pwa
Run - Universal multi-language runner and smart REPL written in Rust. rust, cli
Rio - A hardware-accelerated GPU terminal emulator focusing to run in desktops and browsers. terminal, gpu
Sera UI - UI component library for React, Next.js, and other JSX frameworks. Built with Tailwind CSS, it makes creating beautiful, interactive and responsive interfaces fast and easy. ui, react
Mise - dev tools, env vars, task runner devtools, monorepo
All about Design
7 Practical Animation Tips - One mistake I made early in my career was thinking that design, and animations in particular, are an art you either get or you don’t. css, javascript
Published on 2025-10-13, last updated on 2025-10-07 by Adam
Comments or questions? Open a new discussion on
github.
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.
