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urban weekly #51

urban weekly #51

Good to know

Font with Built-In Syntax Highlighting - Syntax Highlighting in Hand-Coded Websites fonts
Announcing TypeScript 5.6 - Next minor release of TypeScript typescript
OpenTelemetry Tracing in 200 lines of code - Developers tend to treat tracing as deep magic, and OpenTelemetry is no exception. OpenTelemetry may be even more mysterious given how many concepts your are exposed to even with beginning examples. telemetry, analytics
Being an engineering manager at Amazon - An insider take on what Amazon can teach you about leading software developers. leadership
The HTTP QUERY Method - This specification defines a new HTTP method, QUERY, as a safe, idempotent request method that can carry request content. http

Read it! Read it! Read it!

AIAIAI - How tired are we collectively about AI? Are we over it yet? Can you even hear about it anymore? I'm sorry if you can't, because this essay will be entirely about it. ai

Code and Tools

Conform - A type-safe form validation library utilizing web fundamentals to progressively enhance HTML Forms with full support for server frameworks like Remix and Next.js. validation
kty - The terminal for Kubernetes k8s
react-call - Call your React components react
Adze - A library for shaping your JavaScript logs. logging
jaqt - GraphQL-style Array.select() and Array.where() for javascript javascript
CSS Nano - Plug in cssnano into your build step for modern CSS compression. css, compression
Chris Titus Tech's Linux Utility - Chris Titus Tech's Linux Toolbox - Linutil is a distro-agnostic toolbox designed to simplify everyday Linux tasks. linux, tools
Nano-Spawn - Tiny process execution for humans - a better child_process nodejs
Tough Cookie - RFC6265 Cookies and CookieJar for Node.js cookies
FarmHash - Node.js implementation of FarmHash, Google's family of high performance hash functions hashing
rainfrog - a database management tui for postgres databases, cli
deck.gl - WebGL2 powered visualization framework visualizations
Dev Utilities - Jam exists to make developers lives easier. Here are fast, free, open source, ad-free tools. tools
FortuneSheet - A drop-in javascript spreadsheet library that provides rich features like Excel and Google Sheets spreadsheets
fast-dotproduct - dotProduct(vectorsA, vectorsB) in JIT-optimized JavaScript, WebAssembly/WASM using SIMD vector instructions. pthread, WebGPU, WebGL, WebNN experiments. calculations
Atkinson Hyperlegible Font - Read Easier With our Free Font fonts
Electrico - A Lightweight Electron App Container nodejs, rust
SideKick - Bare metal to production ready in mins; your own fly server on your VPS. infra
ts-remove-unused - Remove unused code from your TypeScript project tools

All about Design

Loading & progress indicators — UI Components series - Engage users and enhance waiting experiences with these simple recommendations. ux

Fun

Comic Mono - A legible monospace font... the very typeface you’ve been trained to recognize since childhood. fonts

Tutorials

CSS display contents - Learn how to use display contents to build more fluid layouts. css

Videos

From Node.js to Deno: How It All Began - After your enthusiastic feedback on our Node.js documentary, we’re excited to present a special feature on Deno! Created by Ryan Dahl and Bert Belder, the innovative minds who contributed A LOT to Node.js (hell one even created Node.js), Deno represents a new chapter in the world of JavaScript runtimes. In this short documentary, we explore the origins of Deno, the motivations behind its development, and the valuable lessons learned along the way. deno
The Best Programmer I Know - GOTO 2024 engineering
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Published on 2024-09-23, last updated on 2024-10-08 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.