urban weekly #55

Finish your projects - Don’t let fear, or that last 10%, hold you back. side-projects

Liskov’s Gun: The parallel evolution of React and Web Components - Wow, what a blog post! Entertaining, but very long. There's an epub version available. react, web-components

Lodash Replacements - This is intended to be a complete catalog of all the functions that Lodash provides, along with a description of how one would go about doing the same thing in plain JavaScript. lodash

Code review antipatterns - Collection of anti-ptterns Simon observed during code reviews engineering

Splitting engineering teams into defense and offense - Interesting approach for a very small team. engineering

How I experience web today - A visual representation how most of the web pages feel nowadays. web

The Senior Shortcut - Simple tasks can be solved by AI, so there's no need to hire Junior devs anymore. w00t leadership, engineering

An Engineer’s Checklist of Logging Best Practices - I'm pretty sure you read these best practices a lot of times. Time to read another one! logging

The internet’s homepage - Do you remember Digg? Get some sweet memories reading this article. digg

An overloaded Developer - Not setting a method parameter defaults to undefined in js. javascript

An Abridged History of Safari Showstoppers - iOS Safari is more than an inconvenience for developers, it's the fundamental reason interoperability has been stymied in mobile ecosystems; frequent showstopping bugs, a large patch gap, and lack of competing engines ensures the web is not a credible competitor to native. Here are the receipts to prove it. safari

Font Sensei - Font sensei is a google fonts picker categorized by tag names fonts

Gosub - Gateway to Optimized Searching and Unlimited Browsing rust, browser

ARIA DevTools - Easily spot missing ARIA labels, misused ARIA roles, and incomplete keyboard support in your web applications. chrome, a11y

clipscreen - Mirror a portion of your screen to a virtual monitor for easier screen sharing. screen

UI Builder - Build a website visually. low-code

Formbricks - Harvest user-insights, build irresistible experiences. forms, surveys

pretty-print - An Effect library that produces the string representation of any value, in Node or the browser. formatting

Kaiban - KaibanJS is a JavaScript-native framework for building and managing multi-agent systems with a Kanban-inspired approach. ai

Jeasx - The power of server side rendering with the ease of JSX. frameworks, ssr

cf-doh - Typed Cloudflare DNS Over HTTP Resolver dns

NumberFlow - A React component to transition, format, and localize numbers. react

kloudlite - RemoteLocal Environments to build distributed applications. infra

TinyWidgets - A collection of tiny, reusable, UI components — wrapped in a helpful app layout with header, side bar, dark mode, and more. ui

Inside How Stripe Crafts Quality Products - A deep dive into Stripe’s rituals and principles to produce surprisingly great work stripe

Drag to Select - Read the journey of Joshua on how to implement a way to select many objects via drag. drag