urban weekly #108

A deep dive into the rss feed reader landscape - Comparison of on-device, browser extension, self-hosted and hosted solutions. rss, feed, reader 🔥

State-based vs Signal-based rendering - When we think about state management in front-end frameworks, we often focus on the API—hooks, observables, or signals. state, signal, rendering 🔥

Noop Functions vs Optional Chaining - A Performance Deep Dive nodejs, performance 🔥

Next.js 16 - Next major version of Next.js nextjs, react, framework 🔥

Just use cURL - What the fuck happened to making HTTP requests? curl, http, request 🔥

React Server Components - Do They Really Improve Performance? react, performance, server 🔥

I see a future in jj - First steps with jj jj, rust, wasm 🔥

Built-in durability - Introducing Workflow Development Kit vercel, workflow, development 🔥

The price of mandatory code reviews - Challenging the unwritten law of software engineering reviews, engineering 🔥

Vitest 4.0 is out! - The next Vitest major is here vitest, testing

Importing vs fetching JSON - This year, JSON module imports became baseline 'newly available', meaning they're implemented across browser engines. javascript, json

[Web dev for beginners] CSS layout - flexbox, grid, media queries and container queries css

TanStack Marketplace - While TanStack offers a suite of first-party plugins, we also want to open the doors to third-party developers. tanstack, plugins

Agents 2.0 - From Shallow Loops to Deep Agents ai, agents 🔥

Flowistry - Flowistry is an IDE plugin for Rust that helps you focus on relevant code. rust, vscode

WebMCP - A proposal and code for websites to support client side LLMs ai, llms, mcp

timelinize - Store your data from all your accounts and devices in a single cohesive timeline on your own computer timeline, data, storage

ASCII Drawing Board - Drawing differently draw, ascii

Joseef - Making job search easier career, jobs

Hono CLI - CLI for Humans and AI with Hono hono, cli

ImapFlow - IMAP Client library for EmailEngine Email API email, api

KATAKATE - Self-hosted secure VM sandboxes for AI compute at scale infra

Format JSON Online - Complete Toolkit for JSON & Data Processing json

Jujutsu - A version control system vcs, git 🔥

Workflow Development Kit - Build durable, resilient, and observable workflows workflow, development, kit 🔥

Free Icons For Web Developers - Browse, customize, and download free SVG icons. Change colors instantly, copy to clipboard, or download individual icons. icons

Detective Wiki - Game with the data of Wikipedia wiki, game

Building CLIs with Ace - A Bookmarks App in Node.js and Bun nodejs, ace

Build Your Own Database - A step-by-step guide to building a key-value database from scratch. database, key-value

25 new & rad feature of CSS - CascadiaJS css

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Published on 2025-10-27, last updated on 2025-11-13 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.