urban weekly #65

Building effective agents - Over the past year, we've worked with dozens of teams building large language model (LLM) agents across industries. Consistently, the most successful implementations weren't using complex frameworks or specialized libraries. Instead, they were building with simple, composable patterns. ai hot

What Every Developer Should Know About Offline-First Apps - All you need to know about local-first apps. local-first

Turing Machines - Interactive article to learn all about Turing Machines. turing hot

Server-Sent Events (SSE) Are Underrated - Most developers know about WebSockets, but Server-Sent Events (SSE) offer a simpler, often overlooked alternative that deserves more attention. Let's explore why this technology is underrated and how it can benefit your applications. sse, http

DNS Nameservers - The optimal approach for a domain when considering both performance and operational resilience is for the domain to be served by two distinct dual-stack diverse anycast nameservers. dns

The Adaptive Chief Technology Officer - Understanding the Life Cycle of the CTO Role leadership

Principal Engineer Roles Framework - Learn how the principal role is embedded into the system at AWS. leadership

OKRs for Evil and Good - My work does not reduce to measurable outcomes. Much of what I accomplish as an engineer and as a developer advocate amounts to creating conditions that make it more likely for the company to succeed. I resist and resent most metrics, yet I don’t mind OKRs the way Honeycomb does them. okrs

Logging, the sensible defaults - Logging is a major pillar for well-designed applications. It is not only a large help during development but also critical for failure analysis and debugging. logging

Do you know how much your computer can do in a second? - Let's find out how well you know computers! All of these programs have a variable NUMBER in them. Your mission: guess how big NUMBER needs to get before the program takes 1 second to run. quiz, performance hot

Cognitive load is what matters - There are so many buzzwords and best practices out there, but most of them have failed. We need something more fundamental, something that can't be wrong. engineering

Summarizing with Transformers.js - Using transformers.js to summarize a text. ai

Zod v3.24.0 - This is the first version of Zod to implement the Standard Schema spec. zod, schema hot

SRCL - A open source monospace component library crafted for React interfaces built with variable fonts, React applications, and React websites that prioritize simplicity. ui, react hot

Stagehand - An AI web browsing framework focused on simplicity and extensibility. ai

AuthorTrail - See all the files you have ever touched in a Git repo git

SaaS Landing Page - Template for a SaaS Landing Page landing-page, saas

gping - Ping, but with a graph cli hot

Ghostty - Ghostty is a fast, feature-rich, and cross-platform terminal emulator that uses platform-native UI and GPU acceleration. terminal hot

Hotlist 2025: the 25 most popular graphic designers, as voted for by their peers - Need a creative boost? Get inspired by these 25 talented graphic designers whose innovative work has earned them recognition and admiration from their fellow creatives. designers hot

Predictions for 2025? - 2024 has been a wild ride with lots of development inside and outside AI. askhn hot