urban weekly #59

Algorithms we develop software by - Write everything twice is a great advice for junior engineers. engineering, career 🔥

Awesome Opensource Boilerplates - A curated list of open source boilerplates and starter templates to kickstart your next project. awesome, boilerplates

Centering things: a solved problem? - Is it really solved? Can't I make any jokes about it anymore? css 🔥

How I ship projects at big tech companies - I have shipped a lot of different projects over the last ~10 years in tech. Here’s what I think about when I’m leading a project and what I’ve seen people get wrong. projects, shipping

All the data can be yours - How to use various sources to fetch data apis

No more redundant engineering debates: Creating alignment and clarity with ADRs - Architectural Decision Records (ADRs) are the key to documenting crucial decisions, enhancing team alignment. Learn the essentials of ADRs, including practical tips for creating clear, concise records engineering

5 Frameworks To Master Communication And Influence As An Engineer - Maven's cofounder (backed by a16z, First Round) shares proven frameworks from coaching leaders at top Silicon Valley startups communication

Introducing the vlt Package Manager & Serverless Registry - After spending the past six months heads-down, we’re excited to share our foundational Package Manager Client & Serverless Registry. javascript

Node.js v22 Enters Long Term Support (LTS) - You can now upgrade your nodejs versions. nodejs 🔥

JavaScript Import Attributes (ES2025) - Understanding the new import attributes syntax and why we can't rely on file extensions alone javascript, es2025

Essential tsconfig.json options you should use - Learn what to configure in your tsconfig tsconfig, typescript

What I Wish Someone Told Me About Postgres - Everybody should know about normalizing the data! databases

Framer Motion is now independent, introducing Motion - Twi big changes: new home at motion.dev and not only a react library anymore. animations

Next.js to htmx — A Real World Example - Learn how the url shortener kutt.it did it. htmx

An official logo for CSS - CSS has a new logo! css

Conditional Props in React Using Type Discrimination - Generics vs Type Discrimination types

We’re (finally!) going to the cloud! - Stack Overflow moves to the GCP! stackoverflow

I Followed the Official AWS Amplify Guide and was Charged $1,100 - Be cautious blindly following official docs aws

Everything I've learned so far about running local LLMs - If you want to dig into local LLMs you should read this first. llms, ai 🔥

Dumb Leadership Mistakes I’ve Made - You will need to make these mistakes for yourself. leadership 🔥

IconCalc - Main engine of the IronCalc ecosystem rust, spreadsheets 🔥

Mergiraf - A syntax-aware git merge driver for a growing collection of programming languages and file formats. git, merge

Frame0 - Make hand-drawn style wireframes quickly and easily. wireframes

H1 Gallery - A collection of the best marketing headlines on the internet. gallery

Hono OpenAPI - A plugin for Hono to generate OpenAPI Swagger documentation hono, openapi 🔥

Maxun - Free, open-source no-code web data extraction platform. scraper

Spin - Spin is a framework for building, deploying, and running fast, secure, and composable cloud microservices with WebAssembly. infra

formity - Formity is an advanced form-building package designed to help React developers create dynamic, multi-step forms with ease. forms

Windsurf Editor - The first agentic IDE, and then some. The Windsurf Editor is where the work of developers and AI truly flow together, allowing for a coding experience that feels like literal magic. ai, editors

SQL Style Guide - Guidelines for SQL sql

Websitevice - Website examples for inspiration gallery

khoj - Your AI second brain. Self-hostable. Get answers from the web or your docs. Build custom agents, schedule automations, do deep research. Turn any online or local LLM into your personal, autonomous AI (e.g gpt, claude, gemini, llama, qwen, mistral). ai

libSQL - libSQL is a fork of SQLite that is both Open Source, and Open Contributions. databases

Beautiful focus outlines - Anytime thought about customizing the default focus outlines? css, focus 🔥

Creating an ASCII Shader Using OGL - Explore the world of shaders with this easy-to-follow guide to creating a custom ASCII art animation using WebGL, Perlin noise, and GLSL. ascii, generative-art 🔥

The Different (and Modern) Ways to Toggle Content - Pure css and html ftw! html, css

How To Build The Future: Sam Altman - Y Combinator startups

Wat - I haven't seen this lightning talk in a while and it's still AWESOME. ruby, javascript 🔥

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Published on 2024-11-18, 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.