urban weekly #114

Writing a good CLAUDE.md - This post is also applicable to AGENTS.md, the open-source equivalent of CLAUDE.md for agents and harnesses like OpenCode, Zed, Cursor and Codex. ai, agents

Punycode - My New Favorite Algorithm algorithms

Why use React? - This isn’t a rhetorical question. react

What Actually Makes You Senior - Reducing ambiguity. Everything else flows from that. engineering

Tech predictions for 2026 and beyond - For much of the world, technology has become so intertwined with our day-to-day lives that it influences everything. tech, predictions

Wrangling my email with Claude Code - Writing a Gmail Skill to access email claud, ai, emails

Why local tech scenes have changed - AI has changed the risk-benefit equation for local talent and opportunity cost engineering, ai

Masonry - Things You Won’t Need A Library For Anymore css, masonry

CSS-in-JS - The Great Betrayal of Frontend Sanity css, js

Critical Security Vulnerability in React Server Components - There is an unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerability in React Server Components. react, security

Vite 8 Beta - The Rolldown-powered Vite vite, rollup

No more tokens! - Locking down npm Publish Workflows npm, security

ExposedByDefault - This is the data your browser hands out automatically, every time! browsers

Susty Icons - Simple, smart, and scalable vector graphics for a speedy and sustainable web. icons

voici.js - A Node.js library for pretty printing your data on the terminal terminal, data, printing

Chokidar - Minimal and efficient cross-platform file watching library file, nodejs

Generate badge - Show your users how many (better yet, how few) dependencies your library contains. dependencies, badge

RetroUI - A NeoBrutalism styled React + TailwindCSS UI library for building bold, modern web apps. ui, react, tailwindcss, brutalism

Project Wallace - Project Wallace is a set of CSS analyzers that check your complexity, specificity, performance, Design Tokens and much more. And all of that in a single web app. css, performance

framework7 - Full featured HTML framework for building iOS & Android apps framework, ios, android

React Web Camera - A React component for capturing multiple photos directly from the browser. react, camera, browser

Remend - Self-healing markdown. markdown, self-healing

Fresh - Text editor for your terminal. terminal, editor, rust

Non-Square Image Blur Extensions - Learn a simple way css

Prevent a page from scrolling while a dialog is open - Pretty cool! css

Modern React Patterns - Concurrent Rendering, Actions & What’s Next react

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