urban weekly #35

Essays on programming I think about a lot - Great list of articles for software development. productivity

Raw hours - Pretty quick read, but so much truth in it. productivity

Write code that you can understand when you get paged at 2am - A hymn to writing understandable code. coding

Cloudflare took down our website after trying to force us to pay 120k$ within 24h - Crazy story. cloudflare

What are you getting paid in? - Interesting view on salary and other things you are paid in. career

New Magic For Animations in CSS - Some simplifications for animations css

Should I Use jwts For Authentication Tokens? - Short answer: No - but there's also a long answer ;) auth

Instead of 'auth', we should say 'permissions' and 'login' - Good idea! auth

The Disappointment Frontier - Keeping your team far from reality can cause a big fat mess. performance, management

React Conf 2024 Recap - All you need to know from React Conf react

Slash Pages - A guide to common pages you can add to your website pages

Email.ML - Minimalist temporary Email email

Doing is normally distributed, learning is log-normal - My conspiracy theory on why software estimation is such garbage productivity

So many feed readers, so many bizarre behaviors - Implications after introducing 429s for too many requests. api, rss

Introducing the CSS anchor positioning API - That could solve a lot of issues. css

How Large is a 160 Bit Number? - What an enjoyable read! numbers

A little DevTools snippet to check broken links on a webpage - Handy snippet to check all links on a web page. snippet, href

4 Software Design Principles I Learned the Hard Way - If there’s two sources of truth, one is probably wrong. And yes, please repeat yourself. engineering

I Sold TinyPilot, My First Successful Business - About an ex-Googler that started his own business and sold it. startups

How we used esbuild to reduce our browser extension build times by 90% - Including type checks! ci

Astro 4.9 - Next minor release of Astro astro

Client-side rendering - A case study of CSR. csr

Why, after 6 years, I’m over GraphQL - Prior GraphQL advocate does not recommend GraphQL anymore. graphql

Inbox ten - Useful adjustment to Inbox Zero productivity

Hiring (and managing) cracked engineers - Cracked - Term used for people who are insanely good at something career, productivity

Three Laws of Software Complexity (or: why software engineers are always grumpy) - Nah, we're not always grumpy ;) engineering

LO - small programming language targeting WASM that aims to be as simple as possible wasm

Vector Pattern Generator - Create vector patterns. vector, patterns

sig - Interactive grep (for streaming) cli

Ark - A headless library for building reusable, scalable design systems that works for a wide range of JS frameworks. react, web-components

Univer - Univer is an open-source alternative to Google Sheets, Slides, and Docs office

Pattern generator - Another pattern generator shapes, patterns

Features.Vote - Drive your product's growth with clarity by letting users post and vote on the features they want. features

pic-smaller - Pic Smaller – Compress JPEG, PNG, WEBP, AVIF, SVG and GIF images intelligently images, compression

TypeHints - These are answers to all the questions I had as a beginner in TypeScript. typescript, learning

dolt - Git for Data data, database

RAGapp - The easiest way to use Agentic RAG in any enterprise ai, rag

Fontsource - Self-host Open Source fonts in neatly bundled NPM packages. fonts

bau.js - Reactive library and components for building web user interface ui

encore - Encore is the Development Platform for startups building event-driven and distributed systems. infra

earthly - Fast, consistent builds with an instantly familiar syntax – like Dockerfile and Makefile had a baby. ci

gh-dash - A beautiful CLI dashboard for GitHub github, cli

CSS Pattern - Explore 144 CSS-only patterns made with CSS gradients and optimized with CSS variables. css, gradients

Art Style Gallery - AI prompts ai, prompts

JS Hacks & Creativity - This is awesome! javascript

SVG Gobbler - Open source browser extension for finding, editing, exporting, optimizing, and managing SVG content. svg, extension

React PDF - Display PDFs in your React app as easily as if they were images. react, pdf

delve - AI to chat ai

Best Practices For Naming Design Tokens, Components And Variables - This post is dedicated to naming conventions, tips, and real-world examples that help you name things in a robust and flexible way. design-tokens

How Canva Activates Users - See the user onboarding flow of Canvas onboarding

qlock - A JavaScript Quine Clock - loving it! quine

serverless-postgres - MVP for a Serverless Postgres using Oriole, Fly Machines, and Tigris for S3 Storage. postgres, serverless

Act On Press - John Carmack's Hot Take On UI ui

The Most Dangerous Phrase - This presentation was recorded at GOTO Copenhagen 2023. solid, scrum