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urban weekly #48

urban weekly #48

Good to know

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

Read it! Read it! Read it!

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

Code and Tools

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
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
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

All about Design

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

Tutorials

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
Docker app hosting - Docker on Digital Ocean docker

Videos

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
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Published on 2024-09-02, last updated on 2024-12-02 by Adam
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Adam Urban

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.