urban weekly #111
weekly tech news so you don't have to read all the internet
Good to know
Wikipedia - Signs of AI writing - This is a list of writing and formatting conventions typical of AI chatbots such as ChatGPT, with real examples taken from Wikipedia articles and drafts. ai Conductors to Orchestrators: The Future of Agentic Coding - From micro-manager to macro-manager: coding's asynchronous future ai, workflows 🔥
Immutable releases are now generally available - GitHub releases now support immutability, adding a new layer of supply chain security. With immutable releases, assets and tags are protected from tampering after publication, so the software you publish—and your users consume—remains secure and trustworthy. github, releases 🔥
Your URL Is Your State - The Overlooked Power of URLs urls, state 🔥
Perfectly Pointed Tooltips - A Foundation css
Why we migrated from Python to Node.js - We just did something crazy: we completely rewrote our backend from Python to Node just one week after our launch. python, nodejs
Node.js v22 to v24 - With the release of Node.js 24.11.0, the Node.js 24 release line has entered Long-Term Support (LTS) and will continue to receive updates through to the end of April 2028. nodejs, lts 
Node.js 24 Becomes LTS - What You Need to Know nodejs, lts
Electron 39.0 - Next major version of Electron electron, release
High-Performance Syntax Highlighting with CSS Highlights API - The CSS Custom Highlight API is a game-changer for implementing syntax highlighting and other text styling features. css, highlighting 🔥
How I use AI (Oct 2025) - I want to take stock of how I'm currently using AI — at least, the cool stuff like LLMs that we call AI. ai 🔥
Send this article to your friend who still thinks the cloud is a good idea - I recently took all my projects off the cloud, saving 10x in monthly AWS costs and thousands of dollars. aws, infra, costs
Web elements know about the user, device, variables, layout and more - This is huge though, for development and design. css
The Rari SSR Breakthrough - 12x Faster, 10x Higher Throughput Than Next.js rari, nextjs, ssr
Storybook 10 - ESM-only, 29% lighter, module automocking, and more storybook Things I Don't Like in Configuration Languages - Spoiler: I created my own configuration language maml.dev maml, configuration
Introducing Uniwind - The fastest Tailwind bindings for React Native react-native, tailwind
You Should Write An Agent - Some concepts are easy to grasp in the abstract. Boiling water: apply heat and wait. Others you really need to try. You only think you understand how a bicycle works, until you learn to ride one. ai, agents 
Hosting SQLite databases on Github Pages - or IPFS or any static file hoster sqlite, github, ipfs
New advice for aspiring managers - Yes, it's different. But we still need you. engineering, leadership
React Email 5.0 - New updates to React Email for improved UX and DX. react-email, email, react
Read it! Read it! Read it!
2x Performance, $300k Savings - A Case Study in Rewriting a Critical Service in Rust rust, performance 🔥
Code and Tools
wavesurfer.js - Audio waveform player audio, waveform
Chef - The only AI app builder that knows backend ai, builder
Web Codegen Scorer - Web Codegen Scorer is a tool for evaluating the quality of web code generated by LLMs. llm, evaluation
type-flag - Typed command-line arguments parser for Node.js typescript, flags, cli 🔥
sitemap.js - Sitemap-generating framework for node.js sitemap, nodejs
DeepNote - Deepnote is a drop-in replacement for Jupyter with an AI-first design, sleek UI, new blocks, and native data integrations. Use Python, R, and SQL locally in your favorite IDE, then scale to Deepnote cloud for real-time collaboration, Deepnote agent, and deployable data apps. jupyter Oklch.fyi - Discover how the OKLCH color model works. Learn, experiment and create more consistent and perceptually uniform color palettes. color, conversion 
mock - Language-agnostic API mocking and testing utility api, mocking, testing
Toon - Token-Oriented Object Notation (TOON) – JSON for LLM prompts at half the tokens. Spec, benchmarks & TypeScript implementation. json, llm, prompt 🔥
qqqa - Fast, stateless LLM for your shell: qq answers; qa runs commands shell, llm, command 🔥
SandDance - Visually explore, understand, and present your data. visualization, data, exploration 🔥
Homarr - A modern and easy to use dashboard. 30+ integrations. 10K+ icons built in. Authentication out of the box. No YAML, drag and drop configuration. dashboard
Parallel - The highest accuracy web search for your AI ai, search
Ratatui - A Rust crate for cooking up Terminal User Interfaces ui, terminal, rust 🔥
BlueTui - TUI for managing bluetooth on Linux bluetooth, terminal, rust 
All about Design
Custom Cursor Accessibility - On the web, custom cursor designs were once fashionable like tying an onion to your belt. cursors
Tutorials
Jujutsu VCS - Getting Started Guide jujutsu-vcs, jj
Videos
Using GenAI on and inside your code, what could possibly go wrong? - NDC Copenhagen ai
Published on 2025-11-10, last updated on 2025-11-10 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.
