urban weekly #40

window.ai - running AI LOCALLY from DevTools! - This will go wild as soon as available for all. ai, chrome

A Git story - Not so fun this time - Rise of Git (and GitHub) git 🔥

Serving a billion web requests with boring code - This is the way to go. All the boring tech is the foundation of all the robust software. engineering 🔥

Top paying technologies - Zig is the highest-paid language to know this year (a new addition), while Clojure gets knocked from the top spot with a 10% decrease from 2022. survey, salaries

Lessons From 20 Years Hacking MySQL (Part 1) - Very entertaining! engineering

My programming beliefs as of July 2024 - This is a collection of things I believe about computer programming as of today. It’s based on my own experience. engineering 🔥

Web Performance Guide - Here's everything you need to know to master website monitoring, analytics, and diagnostics. performance

The many faces of undefined in JavaScript - There are too many ways to represent unknown or missing data and this can lead to defects. javascript

Cloudflare debuts one-click nuke of web-scraping AI - Take that for ignoring robots.txt! cloudflare, bots

Your Company's Problem is Hiding in Plain Sight - High Work-In-Progress (WIP) - You Need Lazy People to Have Restless Features performance

How to Annul Promises in JavaScript - Creating Cancelable Tasks in JavaScript with Promise.withResolvers and AbortController javascript, promises

TypeScript 5.5 - A Blockbuster Release - Lots of new features in the next minor release typescript

You’re Closer Than You Think - The Only 6 DNS Concepts You Really Need - DNS explained. dns

The saddest Just Ship It story ever - IndieHacker story about benji! indie 🔥

Eponymous Laws - Some observations that might ring true engineering

Numbers To Know For Managing (Software Teams) - This is a collection of very true topics, written in a very entertaining way. management 🔥

Pikimov - Online motion design and video editor video

Docmost - Docmost is an open source collaborative documentation and wiki software. It is an open-source alternative to the likes of Confluence and Notions. docs, collaboration

Solid Toast - Create beautiful, customizable toasts with Solid JS notifications, toast

doggo - Command-line DNS Client for Humans. Written in Golang cli

squirrelly - Semi-embedded JS template engine that supports helpers, filters, partials, and template inheritance. 4KB minzipped, written in TypeScript templating 🔥

fast-json-stringify - 2x faster than JSON.stringify() stringify, json

Mako - An extremely fast, production-grade web bundler based on Rust. bundler

SmoothMQ - A drop-in replacement for SQS designed for great developer experience and efficiency. queues, sqs

Changesets - A way to manage your versioning and changelogs with a focus on monorepos changelog

Search HackerNews - A search engine for HackerNews search

React Ace - A set of react components for Ace (Editor) react

lets form - A JSON form generator for React with Material UI / AntDesign / Bootstrap / RSuite / Mantine react, forms

H5Web - React components for data visualization and exploration visualization

GridStack - Build interactive dashboards in minutes. grids, dashboards

Flitter - Flitter is a powerful framework inspired by Flutter, supporting both SVG and Canvas to create high-performance graphics and user interfaces. visualizations 🔥

MSHR - A collection of 208 vanilla CSS mesh gradients free for you to use in any of your projects. css, gradients

json.bash - Command-line tool and bash library that creates JSON json

bwip-js - Barcode Writer in Pure JavaScript barcode

Superstruct - A simple and composable way to validate data in JavaScript (and TypeScript). validation

Termino.js - Create a web based terminal on any website - great for games, animations and real world apps! terminal

0xtools - X-Ray vision for Linux systems cli, performance

The country where design is dominated by women - Unlike in most parts of the world, Iceland's design scene is overwhelmingly female. equality

The time for designers to learn to code is now - With design tools further commoditising and sanitising expected creative output, the time for designers to be able to stand out is very much here. coding 🔥

535 ways to reload the page with JavaScript - Javascript is such a joy javascript 🔥

sliderland - a minimalist coding playground sliders 🔥

Profiling Node.js Applications - Learn how to profile your node app. performance

How to Perform Data Validation in Node.js - By using the express validation middleware. validation

CSS Surprise Manga Lines - When a manga or anime character is surprised, lines focus on and highlight their face. Is it possible to create a similar effect with HTML and CSS? css

Practical Deep Learning for Coders - A free course designed for people with some coding experience, who want to learn how to apply deep learning and machine learning to practical problems. ai

How Vercel Works - With Malte Ubl, we deep dived into how Vercel works as a team, what could developer experience look like, and the future of AI-enabled applications. vercel

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Published on 2024-07-08, last updated on 2025-05-15 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.