urban weekly #14

React Server Components: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly - Deep dive into react server components with Next.js nextjs, react, rsc

jQuery 4 - whoaaaa jquery

Microsoft’s Copilot app is now available on iOS - The Microsoft Copilot app lets you ask questions, draft text, and generate images using AI. ai, copilot, microsoft

Stuff we figured out about AI in 2023 - Summarized in 10 points ai

Beep Beep - The beeper app lost the game with Apple apple, iMessage, beeper

Booking.com hackers increase attacks on customers - Be aware with your next booking.com order. hack

I built the same app 7 times! Which JS Framework is best? - Comparison of the same app built with 7 different frameworks frontend

Docs deserve more respect - Indeed docs

Why I use Astro - I follow Flavio for a long time, and it's nice to read his journey and motivation to use Astro astro

I hate Chrome browser's new design with a burning passion. Here's how to revert to the classic one. - I'm not hating the new design, but I'm really happy that there's a way to switch back ;) chrome

Introducing Catalyst: A modern UI kit for React - First dev preview of Catalyst tailwind, catalyst

The AHA Stack - Loving it! Combine Astro, htmx and Alpine.js to create modern web applications sending HTML over the wire, replacing the SPA JS-heavy approach with a much simpler set of mental models and workflows. aha, astro, htmx, alpinejs

SIEVE is simpler than LRU - Deep dive into caching, and presenting a new cache eviction algo called SIEVE. caching

What Will Happen In 2024 - AI + web3 = <3 2024, ai, web3

10 Interview Questions Every JavaScript Developer Should Know in 2024 - Good ones! interviews

Announcing Vue 3.4 - Next minor version of vue vue

Introduction to HTMX - The htmx train accelerates htmx

Microsoft’s new Copilot key is the first big change to Windows keyboards in 30 years - Microsoft really wants to push Copilot copilot

NPM registry prank leaves developers unable to unpublish packages - everything fetches everything npm

WebAssembly: 4 Predictions for 2024 - 2024 Is the Year of Wasm in Production wasm

Leaked File Shows the Thousands of Artists Midjourney Has Allegedly Used to Train Its AI Models - Names include Yayoi Kusama, Damien Hirst, Andy Warhol, and even a six-year-old child. midjourney

How Uber Finds Nearby Drivers at 1 Million Requests per Second - Nice insights about how Uber identifies relevant drivers uber, insights

The world's smallest PNG - Wow, worth reading if you want to learn how a PNG file is encoded. pngs

9 years of Apple text editor solo dev - Really enjoyed reading this story behind the Paper app apple, paper

2024 Guide to Goals for Software Engineers - Personally I love tipps about getting better. This blog post is all around setting goals. goals

HackerStartup - Useful SaaS Kits and Starter Templates for developers to build your next project faster starter, bootstrap

ParadeDB - PostgreSQL for Search postgres

Mathesar - Mathesar is an open source and web-based interface that works on top of your database. databases

SVG-Loaders - Loading icons and small animations built with pure SVG. svg, loaders

markdown-to-jsx - The most lightweight, customizable React markdown component. react, markdown

React DayPicker - DayPicker is a customizable date picker component for React, with native TypeScript support. react, date

react-timezone-select - An extremely usable and dynamic React timezone selector react, timezones

SSH3 - faster and rich secure shell using HTTP/3 ssh

OpenVoice - Instant voice cloning by MyShell. voice

Plotteus - Plotteus is an open-source JavaScript data visualization library designed to help you tell better stories. javascript, story telling

docx.js - Easily generate and modify .docx files with JS/TS. Works for Node and on the Browser. docx, javascript

lowdb - Simple and fast JSON database json, db, javascript

webhook.cool - Allows you to receive and inspect webhook requests. webhooks

type-coverage - A CLI tool to check type coverage for typescript code typescript, coverage

mise-en-place - The front-end to your dev env. env, cli

Jan - Jan is an open source alternative to ChatGPT that runs 100% offline on your computer ai

midlibrary - The most advanced library of genres, artistic movements, techniques, titles, and artists' styles for Midjourney AI. ai, midjourney

Krea - Create images with AI ai

Neodrag - Tiny lib to drag elements javascript, typescript, dnd

Neoconfetti - Tiny lib to create confetti effect javascript, typescript

Naming Design Tokens - The Art of Clarity and Consistency design-tokens

Everything You Need to Know About Responsive Logo Design - Logos need to work on smaller screens as well, and not just by shrinking the size. logos

UX Dictionary - Dictionary with all the UX keywords ux, dictionary

UX Design Conferences You Can’t Miss in 2024 - Listed per month and a description conferences

Drawww - Drawww offers you significantly better drawing experience, powered by AI ai

Responsive templates - The best responsive website templates templates

Tell better stories - The 9 principles of Better Stories stories

UI/UX Design Trends For 2024 - Dive into the latest UI/UX design trends for 2024. Take advantage of them to level up your business and strengthen your digital services. trends

Oh shit banners - Bonus: I learned what Confirmshaming is! banners

Patterns and Predictions for 2024 - Thoughts on what will have a lasting impact on us at the intersection of creativity and technology 2024

Create Outstanding Offboarding and Frictionless Experiences for Your Users - Started to think about how many offboardings are really bad offboarding

Flexbox Froggy - Fun game to learn css/flexbox game, css

The Terminal Sunday - Start each new terminal session with a thought-provoking reminder of the time you have to make the most of your life! - Maybe not so fun though? terminal

Nice header effect - Thanks @jh3yy! css

Expanding scroll indicators - Thanks @jh3yy! css

Crypto: The World’s Greatest Scam. - It's necessary to understand how the world is looking on the whole web3 space - to eventually create useful services for the masses crypto, web3

HTMX Crash Course - Dynamic Pages Without Writing Any JavaScript htmx

Ida Persson: What's hiding in the simple: why less is not more when designing for people and plan... - Short talk, I liked it! design