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urban weekly #29

urban weekly #29

Good to know

OpenAI Batch API - save costs and get higher rate limits on async tasks (such as summarization, translation, and image classification) openai
We are moving to General Availability - Supabase is becoming GA! supabase
Faster Connectivity !== Faster Websites - So true, bloated websites all over the internet. performance
Authorization is still a nightmare for engineers: Launching Distributed Authorization - Intersting approach auth
This is a teenager - Beautiful website teenager
iOS404 - All the missing features in iOS ios
Basic Things - Great advice for small to large projects. productivity
Biome v1.7 - Next minor release, with a single command migration from ESLint linting
Visualizing Algorithms - Old but gold! algorithms
JS Naked Day - April 24 it is! The web should work without JavaScript. javascript
Why you need a WTF Notebook - I like that idea. productivity
The Art Of SVG Filters And Why It Is Awesome - Didn't know that you can apply such nice filters in svg. svg
Mentorship, coaching, sponsorship: three different — and equally important — tools for developing talent - Three different characteristics career
Improving our Jest execution time by 300% - Disabling type checking was the trick. jest, tests

Read it! Read it! Read it!

Hardest Problem in Computer Science: Centering Things - Never ending story. css

Code and Tools

Modern Font Stacks - System font stack CSS organized by typeface classification for every modern OS fonts
Zero Sheets - Google Sheets as APIs spreadsheets, api
MarkdownDown - Convert any webpage to a clean markdown w/ images downloaded. markdown, md
redka - Redis re-implemented with SQLite redis, sqlite
morphic - An AI-powered answer engine with a generative UI ai, openai
Screen Ruler - Measure the web - Measure sizes, distances, margins and paddings of any element on any web page. chrome
Reader - Convert any URL to an LLM-friendly input with a simple prefix https://r.jina.ai/ ai
Roll your own auth - Copy & paste code to roll your own auth easily and for free auth
node-argon2 - Node.js bindings for Argon2 hashing algorithm hashing
Effect - A set of libraries to write better TypeScript typescript
MikroORM - TypeScript ORM for Node.js based on Data Mapper, Unit of Work and Identity Map patterns. orm, typescript
React Query Builder - The Query Builder Component for React react
semantic-autocomplete - A blazing-fast semantic search React component. Match by meaning, not just by letters. Search as you type without waiting (no debounce needed). Rank by cosine similarity. autocomplete
react-qrcode-logo - React + Typescript component to generate a QR Code with custom colors and logo qr
Anchor Position Tool - Get your anchor positioning css. css
SVGEncode - A simple tool to convert an SVG into different formats, ready for use in CSS and HTML. svg
portr - Expose local http, tcp or websocket connections to the public internet tunnel
fx - Terminal JSON viewer & processor cli, json
HyperFormula - A headless spreadsheet, a parser and evaluator of Excel formulas spreadsheets
Quill - Quill is a modern WYSIWYG editor built for compatibility and extensibility. editors
hatchet - Hatchet is a distributed, fault-tolerant task queue which replaces traditional message brokers and pub/sub systems - built to solve problems like concurrency, fairness, and durability. queue
ripl - Ripl provides a unified API for 2D graphics rendering in the browser with a focus towards high performance and interactive data visualization. svg, canvas
Colors - Inspirational color palettes tailored to your vision ai, colors
Gitroom - Schedule social media and articles. Exchange or buy posts from other members. Monitor your GitHub trending, and so much more. growth

Fun

Interview with Senior JS Developer 2024 [NEW] - All the shiny js libs in under 7mins javascript

Tutorials

Building a CLI from scratch with TypeScript and oclif - If you want to implement a ts cli, here you go. oclif, typescript, cli
Building an interactive 3D event badge with React Three Fiber - Dropping lanyard react, threejs

Videos

All Javascript conference talks from 2023 ordered by the number of views - Featuring JSConf, JSWORLD, JSNation, React Summit, React Native EU, VueJS Amsterdam, TypeScript Congress and many more! javascript
The Microsoft-Dilemma - Europe as a Software Colony - Full Documentary microsoft
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Published on 2024-04-22, last updated on 2024-12-02 by Adam
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Adam Urban

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.