urban weekly #101
weekly tech news so you don't have to read all the internet
Good to know
It's hard to write code for computers, but it's even harder to write code for humans - Humans learn from examples, not from core concepts engineering 🔥
The messy WordPress drama, explained - WordPress cofounder Matt Mullenweg is going after a rival hosting firm he says is - strip-mining the WordPress ecosystem - wordpress
Testing Frontend - Lessons from over a million lines of TypeScript at Palantir testing, typescript
A guide to destructuring in JavaScript - Destruct all the things! javascript
Product Hunt isn’t dying – its become gentrified - Small time makers have been priced out by VC startups, rent seeking profiteers, and others with deep pockets indie, launch 🔥
Don't Be Afraid to Re-Invent the Wheel - Calculate how much effort it costs to implement a functionality by yourself instead of depending on a 3rd party. dependencies, engineering
Interviewing for Evidence - Dan explains four types of evidence. leadership, interviews
Getting Started with Hetzner Object Storage - Hetzner finally launched their own S3-compatible object storage, adding to their existing block storage and file storage solutions. hetzner
Evolving GitHub Issues (Public Preview) - That's some really nice additions to Github Issues! github
Bots, so many Bots - ProductHunt has over 1 million user signups. More than 60% of those are bots. producthunt, bots
A Local-First Case Study - The story of Waypoint as a local-first app local-first
CSS Masonry & CSS Grid - Quick heads up about the masonry initiative. css, grid, masonry
SVG Coding Examples: Useful Recipes For Writing Vectors By Hand - Myriam Frisano explores the basics of hand-coding SVGs with practical examples to demystify the inner workings of common SVG elements. svg
What Your Job Ad Says About You - Stevie brings some good advice about made mistakes in job adverts. interview, application
Tauri 2.0 Stable Release - Next major release of Tauri tauri, rust
Types of React Components [2024] - This guide provides beginners with an overview of modern components and patterns, explaining which are still relevant and why some are no longer used. react
Skin-Shedding Code - Shredding code with the sledgehammer can be a helthy habit. engineering 🔥
Read it! Read it! Read it!
We need more zero config tools - It just works. — Steve Jobs engineering 🔥
Stars and Guardians - It's all about Devs and Ops working close together. devops 🔥
Code and Tools
mitata - benchmark tooling that loves you benchmarking, cli
Better Auth - The most comprehensive authentication library for TypeScript auth 🔥
Open Source Pledge - Whether you're a CEO, CFO, CTO, or just a dev, your company surely depends on Open Source software. It's time to pay the maintainers. oss
WebLLM - High-performance In-browser LLM Inference Engine llm, web
qrframe - code-based qr code generator qr 🔥
void(0) - Next Generation Tooling - Our mission is to make web developers more productive than ever before. javascript 🔥
µExpress / Ultimate Express - The Ultimate Express. Fastest http server with full Express compatibility, based on µWebSockets. express, server
Superdiff - Superdiff compares two arrays or objects and returns a full diff of their differences in a readable format. tools
gradient-string - Beautiful color gradients in terminal output cli, gradient
ProseMirror - A toolkit for building rich-text editors on the web editors
Sourcebot - Blazingly fast code search github, gitlab, search
Tabbied - Doodle with generated patterns patterns
Pipet - a swiss-army tool for scraping and extracting data from online assets, made for hackers scraping, cli
TinyJS - Tiny JS is a lightweight JavaScript utility for dynamically creating HTML elements javascript
Summernote - Super simple WYSIWYG editor editors
ASCII progress indicators - Show progress in ASCII style progress-indicator
All about Design
Design system dilemmas: similar looks, different functions - Why distinct components matter for user experience ux
Tutorials
How to use the Reddit API for a JavaScript application - Reddit is a news aggregation, communication, and discussion application. If you want to get more information about a particular topic or have a question, Reddit is the place to be. The data on Reddit are provided to the public through both the website and its API. reddit
How to Make a Scroll-to-Select Form Control - A scroll-to-select form control is a form control that allows users to scroll through a list of options and select one. This is a common pattern in mobile apps, but it can also be useful on the web. css, forms
Videos
Bundling Past, Present, and Future - A recent talk I gave about JavaScript bundlers. It’s a bit of a history lesson, and along the way I tried to introduce what bundlers are, why you’d use one, what problems they solve, dived into how they work internally, features like code splitting and tree shaking, and discussed the vast landscape of JavaScript and web tooling out there today. javascript
Published on 2024-10-07, last updated on 2025-09-04 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.
