urban weekly #102
weekly tech news so you don't have to read all the internet
Good to know
Managing dotfiles with chezmoi - Using the tool chezmoi to manage your dotfiles. dotfiles
Your company needs Junior devs - Getting coffee with a bunch of local tech leaders, I surprised myself with how stridently I argued why companies should hire junior engineers. engineering
Oops, I accidentally made our website faster by switching to Remix - Next.js to Remix migration remix, nextjs
Express 5.0 - Major release of Express express 🔥
Good software development habits - Ten things you should consider as a developer. engineering
Sticky Headers And Full-Height Elements: A Tricky Combination - Sticky positioning is one of those CSS features that’s pretty delicate and can be negated by a lot of things, so here’s another one to add to your mental catalog: Sticky elements don’t play nicely if they have to coordinate with other elements to make up a combined height, like 100vh. Philip Braunen explores why this happens and presents a solution to fix it. css
The Modern CLI Renaissance - Over the past few years, it seems like the rate at which new CLI tools are being written has picked back up again, accelerating after seeing relatively little activity between ~1995 and ~2015. I’d like to talk about this trend I’ve noticed, where people are rewriting and rethinking staples of the command line interface, why I think this trend might be happening, and why I think this trend is a good thing. cli
The State of ES5 on the Web - Overview about tools and libraries javascript
More NPM packages on Cloudflare Workers: Combining polyfills and native code to support Node.js APIs - Cloudflare workers become even better for nodejs! cloudflare 🔥
Biome v1.9 Anniversary Release - Next minor release of Biome tools, linter
First Look: Exploring OpenAI o1 in GitHub Copilot - We’ve tested integrating OpenAI o1-preview with GitHub Copilot. Here’s a first look at where we think it can add value to your day to day. github, copilot
What’s new in React 19 - Explore React 19 and how to start using it on Vercel today. react
Making progress on side projects with content-driven development - Writing about your project can be a progress booster. startups, sideprojects
Everyone Draw - Draw pixel art with people around the world on an infinite canvas. social 🔥
Read it! Read it! Read it!
Look out, kids: PHP is the new JavaScript - What an entertaining read about Laravel. I know, it's php, but wow. php, laravel 🔥
Code and Tools
Propdock - A comprehensive platform for financial analysis, valuation and leases for commercial real estate starter-kit
Reclaim the Stack - The Reclaim the Stack Platform is a fully open source Kubernetes-based deployment platform which can be easily deployed on bare metal as well as the cloud. It is designed to replace Platform as a Service (PaaS) offerings like Heroku, and to provide a fully featured, easy to use platform for deploying web applications. infra
Inertia.js - Inertia.js lets you quickly build modern single-page React, Vue and Svelte apps using classic server-side routing and controllers. frameworks
HonoX - HonoX is a simple and fast meta-framework for creating full-stack websites or Web APIs - (formerly Sonik). It stands on the shoulders of giants; built on Hono, Vite, and UI libraries. frameworks 🔥
Atomic CRM - A full-featured CRM built with React, react-admin, and Supabase. crm
sqlc - Generate type-safe code from SQL sql
Fast Grid - World's most performant DOM-based web table. grid
node-html-to-image - A Node.js module that generates images from HTML images, html
vomitorium - Vomitorium is a command-line tool designed to easily load an entire project into a single text file. It recursively scans directories, processes files, and compiles their contents into a single output file. Useful for working with LLMs. llms, tools
React Kitten - React desktop environment for the web. React-ish and highly customizable. react, desktop
ell - A language model programming framework. llms, ai
Plate - Rich-text editor with shadcn editors
Gerstnerizer - Pattern generator svg
Violentmonkey - An open source userscript manager. chrome, extensions, scripts
Orama - Fast, dependency-free, full-text and vector search engine with typo tolerance, filters, facets, stemming, and more. Works with any JavaScript runtime, browser, server, service! search
@bramus/caniuse-cli - Command line tool for Can I Use and MDN Browser Compat Data css
Your Next Store - Modern Commerce with Next.js and Stripe as the backend. ecommerce, stripe 🔥
Redirect Checker - Your Ultimate URL Redirect Analysis Tool redirects
SAQ - Simple Async Queues queue
All about Design
Features of your font you had no idea about - Get the maximum out of your font fonts
Color Meanings - Browse the list of colors and learn about color meanings colors
Tutorials
bg-remover - 100% client side background remover webgpu 🔥
ASCII Webcam - Uses webcam and transforms video in ascii art javascript, css
Set Up a $4/mo Hetzner VM to Skip the Serverless Tax - Follow the latest trend to manage your own infra for your app. infra, hetzner 🔥
Published on 2024-09-16, last updated on 2025-09-13 by Adam
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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.
