urban weekly #109

Mistakes I see engineers making in their code reviews - In the last two years, code review has gotten much more important. engineering, reviews 🔥

GenAI Image Showdown - A comparison of various SOTA generative image models on specific prompts and challenges with a strong emphasis placed on adherence. sota, llm, ai, images

Scripts I wrote that I use all the time - In my decade-plus of maintaining my dotfiles, I've written a lot of little shell scripts. Here's a big list of my personal favorites. scripts, cli 🔥

Advice for New Principal Tech ICs - i.e., Notes to Myself principal, engineering

Always Be Ranking - Anytime you’re making a list at work, rank it. engineering, career

The Search Problem - Why Your Computer Finds Things Faster Than You Do search, trees, algorithms, engineering

Why IP address truncation fails at anonymization - Truncated IP addresses are still personal data under GDPR. gdpr, privacy

What are the 2025 benchmarks for the key DORA metrics? - Only 16% of teams deploy on-demand while 24% deploy less than monthly, revealing a stark divide in delivery maturity. dora, engineering, performance

A Brief History of Domains - This year, dot com turned 40. dns, domains

I Built the Same App 10 Times - Evaluating Frameworks for Mobile Performance comparison, performance 🔥

Optimizing repos for AI - Useful strategies ai, repo 🔥

The real problem with AI coding - Tech debt and comprehension debt ai, engineering 🔥

Octoverse - A new developer joins GitHub every second as AI leads TypeScript to number 1 github, trends, typescript 🔥

ViteConf 2025 Recap - Welcome to a special edition of What’s new in ViteLand! vite

Write Code That Runs in the Browser, or Write Code the Browser Runs - There’s a big difference between A) making suggestions for the browser, and B) being its micromanager. browser, javascript

CSS Animations That Leverage the Parent-Child Relationship - Modern CSS has great ways to position and move a group of elements relative to each other, such as anchor positioning. css

Kafka is fast - I'll use Postgres kafka, postgres, database 🔥

Shadcn Themer - Shadcn Themer is a web application that lets you to create, customize, and share themes for shadcn/ui shadcn

oxdraw - Diagram as Code Tool Written in Rust with Draggable Editing draw

Semantic Art - Instead of another prompt bar for generation, this is an art search engine that invites you to search with your imagination. art, search

React Grab - Grab any element on in your app and give it to Cursor, Claude Code, etc react, ai 🔥

FTA - Rust-based static analysis for TypeScript projects typescript, analysis 🔥

GPUI Component - Rust GUI components for building fantastic cross-platform desktop application by using GPUI. rust, ui

Awesome Node.js - Delightful Node.js packages and resources nodejs

Marko - A declarative, HTML-based language that makes building web apps fun framework, web

Dexto - The Intelligence Layer for AI agents. Connect your models, tools, and data to create agentic apps that can think, act and talk to you. ai, agents

Butter - A Cache For Your LLM llm, ai, cache Butter

Typing SVG Generator - Typing animation with SVGs svg

Dev TUI - A Swiss-army app for developers cli, tools 🔥

Social Anayzer - API, CLI, and Web App for analyzing and finding a person's profile in 1000 social media \ websites search, profiles

emoji-regex - A regular expression to match all Emoji-only symbols as per the Unicode Standard. emoji, regex

pgfeaturediff - Compare PostgreSQL features between versions postgres

Slim Select - Slim advanced select dropdown ui, select

spoilerjs - A framework-agnostic web component for creating beautiful spoiler effects with Telegram-inspired particle animations. javascript, animations 🔥

Morwse - Real-time multi-user morse code collaboration tool audio, morse Morwse

Bad UX World Cup - Congratulations to the bad ux world champion ux 🔥

Section Layout - Building a typical section design with modern CSS. css 🔥

The Future of Astro - ViteConf 2025 astro

Why he's the most trusted man in design - This is a series about design, creativity and the people behind dope work. design

Use Web APIs to Build Browser AI Apps - CascadiaJS ai

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Published on 2025-11-03, last updated on 2025-11-17 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.