urban weekly #53

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

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

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

Design system dilemmas: similar looks, different functions - Why distinct components matter for user experience ux

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

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