urban weekly #49

Willingness to look stupid - Entertaining article that made me reflect about how I behave in several situations. career

The web's clipboard, and how it stores data of different types - If you've been using computers for a while, you probably know that the clipboard can store multiple types of data (images, rich text content, files, and so on). clipboard

Going fast slowly - About how fast we're programming. engineering

CSS finally adds vertical centering in 2024 - One of the most challenging programming skills is becoming a one-liner ;) css

Multithreading in Node.js - Using Atomics for Safe Shared Memory Operations nodejs

How I Created a 3.78MB Docker Image for a JavaScript Service - Hand-crafted and with some downsides, but it works. nodejs, docker

Hono Zod OpenAPI - There's a built-in way to create OpenAPI spec with Hono! hono, openapi

Greppability is an underrated code metric - Three tipps for a better way to find things. engineering

The secret inside One Million Checkboxes - Teens wrote me a secret. I found them. logs

The /llms.txt file - A proposal to standardise on using an /llms.txt file to provide information to help LLMs use a website at inference time. llms

The dawn of a new startup era - Opinion about the current startup landscape and a deep dive into the latest AI products. startups

Hacking sales as an introvert - Three discoveries that you need to rock sales. sales

Explicit is better than implicit - Clarity is key: being explicit makes your code more readable and maintainable. engineering

Things I Wished More Developers Knew About Databases - 17 things you should know about databases! databases

An SSR Performance Showdown - Fastify (as a baseline), Vue, Svelte, Solid, Preact, and React in comparison. benchark

Preloading files to reduce download chains in the browser - Small changes lead to a better loading performance. performance

Founder Mode - General assumption: the management of a startup is changing towards manager mode - the well-known way of managing and taught in business schools. Founder mode is less known and understood, but may be more effective. startups, leadership

Why I still self host my servers (and what I've recently learned) - I self host everything but email. independance

QRSVG - QRSVG is a small JavaScript project to render a two-dimensional bitmask (mostly assumed to be a QR code) to an SVG element as a collection of SVG paths with defined purposes. qr, svg

Algora TV - Open source Twitch for developers streaming

StatiCrypt - Password protect a static HTML page, decrypted in-browser in JS with no dependency. No server logic needed. encryption

Huetone - A tool to create accessible color systems colors

Badge Maker Lite - A lightweight, free tool to easily create and customize SVG badges for use in GitHub READMEs, CI/CD pipelines, and more. Save and load configurations via GitHub Gists. svgs

yocto spinner - Tiny terminal spinner cli, spinner

empathic - A set of small Node.js utilities to understand your pathing needs. tools

Pines UI - Pines is a library of animations, sliders, tooltips, accordions, modals, and more! It's a set of UI elements that can be copy and pasted into any Alpine and Tailwind projects. ui, alpine, tailwind

Realtime Colors - Visualize Your Colors & Fonts On a Real Site colors

Server Mono - Server Mono is a typeface inspired by typewriters, Apple's San Francisco Mono, ASCII art, command-line interfaces, and programming tools. fonts

Avatars - Avatars is a collection of diverse free avatar images from across the web, designed to add personality to your projects. With a vast selection of vibrant illustrations, you can enhance your projects in seconds. avatars

Midday v1 - An open-source starter kit based on Midday. starter-kit

Srcbook - TypeScript notebook for rapid prototyping typescript

Logggos - Discover inspiring logos sorted by industries, themes, typography style, branding color and more. logos

jsdiff - A javascript text differencing implementation. javascript

FetchFox - A Chrome extension to extract any data from any website chrome, ai

Reducing UX debt (or die trying) - Product people should be less concerned with delivering new features (maximising) than with reducing UX debt (optimising). Poor, unresolved user experience is what drives away customers and destroys team motivation and commitment. ui, ux

Printing Money - Another nice illustration by Neal. money

Responsive app switcher or carousel UI with CSS view() - That's so nice! css

Types from an array of strings - By using T[number]. typescript

Going full-stack on Astro with Cloudflare D1 and Drizzle - A step-by-step guide to adding a back-end to your Astro project using Cloudflare D1 and Drizzle ORM astro, cloudflare

CSS @property and the New Style - Cool effect for a user's attention. css

Caching demystified - Inspect, clear, and disable caches caches

Scroll-Enhanced Experiences - CSS Day 2024 css