urban weekly #48

CORS is Stupid - A praise to the fact that you shouldn't rely on everything by default. Essentially, it means: think for yourself! security, cors

JS Dates Are About to Be Fixed - Finally a native object to represent a Zoned Date Time date

React Email 3.0 - An entire collection of pre-built components with a much faster development experience. email, react

Fixing a Bug in Google Chrome as a First-Time Contributor - Interesting to read the journey of fixing a bug in chrome. chrome

Dokku: my favorite personal serverless platform - Like Heroku, but you own it. dokku, infra, serverless hot

Manager Antipatterns - Many companies make the same sorts of mistakes with their managers, over and over again. If they were software designs, we'd call them antipatterns. leadership hot

One on One Meeting Format Ideas - If you're not doing them, start now. Read this article to get a better understanding why. leadership

Why I Always Use PostgreSQL Functions For Everything - I'm tending between (1) I should consider this, and (2) there's a reason not to overuse database functions. databases

Can you convert a video to pure css? - This is insane. css

5 Wasm Use Cases for Frontend Development - WebAssembly—or Wasm—is gaining ground as a frontend development option. How should you consider applying it? wasm

What is HN working on - A structured dataset ideas, hackernews

Astro 4.15 - Next minor release of Astro astro

Rspak 1.0 - Rspack is a next-generation JavaScript bundler written in Rust, compatible with the webpack API and ecosystem, and is 10 times faster than webpack. bundler

The Top Programming Languages 2024 - Typescript and Rust are among the rising stars engineering

JavaScript Generators - Explained, But On A Senior-Level javascript

I just crossed $1 million on GitHub Sponsors. - As of this morning, I've made over a million dollars on GitHub sponsors. Wowoweewow. indie hot

Bypassing airport security via SQL injection - This is so wild. security, airports

We've Been Lied To About Work - My big, depressing, and optimistic theory for why it's so hard to find and keep a job that makes you happy career hot

Leading Effective Engineering Teams - a Deepdive - What makes software teams effective, and how do the TL, EM and TLM roles differ? performance, engineering hot

buffdb - Embedded storage built for multiplexing. Smart machines don't need to read JSON, they only need protocol buffers. The world's first MODMS (Machine-Oriented Database Management System), built to support RocksDB, SQLite, and DuckDB as backends. databases

ChartDB - Free and Open-source database diagrams editor, visualize and design your DB with a single query. databases

fuite - A tool for finding memory leaks in web apps security

Sherlock - Hunt down social media accounts by username across social networks usernames

PhotoGradient - Create gradients from uploaded images. gradients, color

html-metadata - MetaData html scraper and parser for Node.js (supports Promises and callback style) scraping

npm-check-updates - Find newer versions of package dependencies than what your package.json allows npm

Vanilla Prime - A simpler, more sustainable way of web development framework

Free Public APIs - A collection og > 200 public APIs apis

N3 - Lightning fast, spec-compatible, streaming RDF for JavaScript rdf

HotScript - A library of composable functions for the type-level! Transform your TypeScript types in any way you want using functions you already know. typescript hot

DEPARTURE_M0NO - Departure Mono is a monospaced pixel font inspired by the constraints of early command-line and graphical user interfaces, the tiny pixel fonts of the late 90s/early 00s, and sci-fi concepts from film and television. fonts hot

Animated Favicon Generator - Upload a gif and convert it to an animated favicon. animations, favicons

Alphredo - Alpha colors generator colors

Firecrawl - Turn entire websites into LLM-ready markdown or structured data. Scrape, crawl and extract with a single API. scraping

Enterprise UX - essential resources to design complex data tables - Read everything you need to know to design tables on enterpris level. tables

Create an internal CLI - programmers who know their way around a terminal cli

Remove all git local branches except main - Helpful quick tipp git

How To Create An NPM Package - In this guide, we'll go through every single step you need to take to publish a package to npm. npm, typesript hot

Docker app hosting - Docker on Digital Ocean docker

21 Videos from Chain React 2024 - Chain React 2024 react

Everything you need to know about @eigenlayer in 4 mins - I know, it's web3, however, it's good to stay updated! web3