urban weekly #43

CSS Grid Areas - A fresh look at the CSS grid template areas and how to take advantage of its full potential today. css

Concerns about passkeys - Passkeys are a technically interesting idea with many upsides, but I am concerned about the power they take away from users. passkeys

The rise and fall of software developer jobs - Demand for software developers has plunged from the boom times of 2021 and 2022. jobs

So you think you know box shadows? - Box shadows. I love them. css hot

Running Untrusted JavaScript Code - Allowing users to execute their code within your application opens up a world of customization and functionality, yet it also exposes your platform to significant security threats. javascript

Why technical cofounders reject you - As a tech fellow, I've been to a lot of cofounder dates. I want to share some perspective from the other side of the table. startups

The Elegance of the ASCII Table - An ASCII table is useful. But did you know it’s also beautiful and elegant. ascii

Advanced Terminal Tips and Tricks - The first tip is already great. cli hot

The biggest-ever global outage - lessons for software engineers - Cybersecurity vendor CrowdStrike shipped a routine rule definition change to all customers, and chaos followed as 8.5M machines crashed, worldwide. There are plenty of learnings for developers. outage

Practical Guide To Not Blocking The Event Loop - Don't block the event loop! node

SELL → DESIGN → BUILD - I have come to believe that one framework is more important than any other in the pursuit of product market fit. It is called Sell, Design, Build. pmf

Forget “show, don’t tell”. Engage, don’t show! - Incremental user effort produces incremental value. value

Why you should have a brag document - It’s your secret weapon for performance reviews and job interviews. performance

How to choose the best rendering strategy for your app - Optimizing performance in the way you deliver code. rendering

Use useId() Instead Of Hand-Making IDs - Well explained why not to try to generate your own ids. react

Is Steve Ballmer the Most Underrated CEO of the 21st Century? - A reconsideration of the Microsoft CEO everybody loves to hate leaders

Typescript support in Nodejs - It is possible to execute TypeScript files by setting the experimental flag --experimental-strip-types. node, typescript

The Process That Kept Dying - A memory leak murder mystery nodejs

Pragmatism, neutrality and leadership - Incredible and detailed post about leadership. leadership hot

40 Life Lessons I Know at 40 (That I Wish I Knew at 20) - Practical lessons on career, health, and relationships that you can take action on now life hot

Anyone can Access Deleted and Private Repository Data on GitHub - You can access data from deleted forks, deleted repositories and even private repositories on GitHub. And it is available forever. This is known by GitHub, and intentionally designed that way. security, github hot

RenderCV - A LaTeX CV/Resume Framework cv

Nextra - Simple, powerful and flexible site generation framework with everything you love from Next.js. frameworks

fakemail.stream - A fake SMTP server for software integration testing. emails

Garage - An open-source distributed object storage service tailored for self-hosting storage

CSS Loaders - 600+ single element loaders css, loaders, spinners

CLI maker - A library to help create CLIs with support for command parameters and interactive prompts. cli

Swapy - A framework-agnostic tool that converts any layout into a drag-to-swap one with just a few lines of code dnd, drag-n-drop

TinkerBird - Client Side Vector Database databases

Fonts Ninja - Discover typefaces and build your font collection. fonts

CSS Grid Generator - CSS grid generator is a tool that helps developers create custom CSS grid layouts more easily. The generator allows users to specify the number of columns, rows, the gutter size. css

chartbrew - Open-source web platform used to create live reporting dashboards from APIs, MongoDB, Firestore, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and more visualizations

fdir - The fastest directory crawler & globbing library for NodeJS. Crawls 1m files in < 1s node

DOM to Semantic Markdown - Convert HTML DOM to Semantic Markdown for use in LLMs (Large Language Models). markdown

Uppy - The next open source file uploader for web browsers upload, javascript hot

ky - Tiny & elegant JavaScript HTTP client based on the Fetch API http

litegraph - A graph node engine and editor written in Javascript similar to PD or UDK Blueprints, comes with its own editor in HTML5 Canvas2D. The engine can run client side or server side using Node. It allows to export graphs as JSONs to be included in applications independently. graphs

svg.wtf - Create and learn how to create svg files! svgs hot

Haystack - An IDE built on top of a canvas, Haystack takes care of the tedious and confusing parts of coding for you ide

Telemetry - A single platform to log, analyze and utilize your data analytics hot

Open Design Docs - Docs daily used by a VP of Design career hot

Iceberger - Draw an iceberg and see how it will float. physics

How to make complex Chrome extensions - a zero gravity guide - Building a complex browser extension isn’t exactly easy—especially for first-timers or folks who feel unsure of what they’re doing! Not to worry. We’ll show you the essentials for building a full-featured Chrome extension using a real example from the Evil Martians casebook! We’ll also share some other useful tips and cool recommendations, so read on! chrome, extensions

Stow has forever changed the way I manage my dotfiles - Managing dotfiles used to be a challenge, and despite numerous guides it was always more complex than I liked to. dotfiles hot