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