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urban weekly #69

urban weekly #69

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Build a Database in 3000 Lines with 0 Dependencies - Plus you learn a lot about databases. databases
Cascading Spy Sheets - Exploiting the Complexity of Modern CSS for Email and Browser Fingerprinting css, security
Vitest 3.0 is out! - Next major release of vitest vitest
Accessibility essentials every front-end developer should know - Many developers view accessibility as an overwhelming task, requiring a lot of extra effort or specialized knowledge. But a few basic practices can make a significant impact. a11y
I am (not) a Failure - Lessons Learned From Six (and a half) Failed Startup Attempts startups
Reverse Engineering My number 1 Hacker News Article - An article went viral on hackernews, the author analyzes what and why it happened. writing, hackernews
Git Trailers - Git trailers are a powerful source of metadata as parsed by the Git Interpret Trailers command. Even better, trailers can be applied to commits and tags. git
Kill Switch Hidden in npm Packages Typosquatting Chalk and Chokidar - Socket researchers found several malicious npm packages typosquatting Chalk and Chokidar, targeting Node.js developers with kill switches and data theft. security, npm
The Cold Outbound Handbook - Learn how to master cold email outreach from $0 to $1M ARR. A comprehensive playbook on infrastructure, copywriting, and AI-powered personalization at scale. emails, outbound, marketing
Today I learned that bash has hashmaps - Hashmaps (associative arrays) are a great way to store a bag of key-value data. bash
Top Pens of 2024 - The most hearted of 2024 css, javascript, html hot
Tailwind v4.0.0 - Major release of Tailwind! tailwind hot
Announcing Solid Desktop - Develop macOS with SolidJS macos, solidjs
Storybook 8.5 - Minor release of Storybook! storybook
You should write without bugs - By prioritizing thoughtful design and maintainability, developers can ship products faster and more reliably. engineering
A Field Guide to Team Dynamics and Conflict - Patterns, tools, and practices for cultivating environments where both harmonious flow and healthy conflict can thrive leadership
Roadmap 2025 and Biome 2.0 - Today we’re happy to share our plans for Biome 2.0 as well as the rest of our roadmap for 2025. But before we dive into what’s coming, let’s do a quick recap of the major developments in 2024. biome
Bun 1.2 - Bun 1.2 is a huge update, and we're excited to share it with you. bun

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Protecting your time from predators in large tech companies - If you’re a competent software engineer at a large tech company, your time is in very high demand. Lots of people will want you to do things. You should be very selective about how you handle these requests, and definitely avoid saying yes to everyone. engineering hot
6 CSS Snippets Every Front-End Developer Should Know In 2025 - I think every front-end developer should know how to enable page transitions, transition a dialog, popover, and details, animate light n' dark gradient text, type safe their CSS system, and add springy easing to animation. css hot

Code and Tools

yek - A fast tool to read text-based files in a repository or directory, chunk them, and serialize them for LLM consumption. llms
Open Props UI - A CSS UI library exploring how next-gen HTML & CSS features can change the way we create components. Designed to be used by professional teams as well as tinkering hobbyists. ui
Kronotop - Kronotop is a Redis-compatible, distributed and transactional document database backed by FoundationDB. redis, databases
osv.dev - Open source vulnerability DB and triage service. security
Rally - Demo your product. Present your slides. Record team updates. Rally simplifies video storytelling and makes sharing easy. videos
cursorful - Use the Cursorful browser extension to record beautiful screen recordings with follow-cursor zooms or load your own video in the editor and add zooms manually. videos hot
sigstore - sign. verify. protect. Making sure your software is what it claims to be. signing
Fontshare - Quality Fonts. Free. fonts
Shapecatcher - Unicode character recognition! This is a tool to help you find Unicode characters. unicode, draw
Data Viz Project - Collection of data visualizations to get inspired and find the right type visualizations
PowerGlitch - Tiny JS library to glitch anything on the web effects
Cursify - Cursor Animation Library for React & Next.js effects
Deno 2 + Hono Starter Template - This is a barebones starter template for a Deno 2 project using the Hono web framework. It provides a simple foundation to build a web application with route grouping, CORS setup, and health check endpoints. This template is ready to be deployed on Railway. deno, hono
Icons.church - Use over 200k icons from Iconify in your Deno projects with ease. icons
Smallweb - Host websites from your internet folder hosting
SRCL - SRCL is an open-source React component and style repository that helps you build web applications, desktop applications, and static websites with terminal aesthetics. ui
ArkType - TypeScript's 1:1 validator, optimized from editor to runtime typescript
Tuono - Superfast fullstack React framework react, rust, framework
Buildstash - Transform your workflow with build artifact and release management for app and game devs ci
BrowserAI - Run local LLMs inside your browser browser, ai hot
Raphael AI - Create stunning AI-generated images in seconds. World's First Unlimited Free AI Image Generator ai, images hot
Bunster - Compile shell scripts to static binaries. cli hot
Trae - Trae is an adaptive AI IDE that transforms how you work, collaborating with you to run faster. ai, ide
JSON Query - A lightweight, flexible, and expandable JSON query language json, query hot

Fun

Deno says - A Deno version of the cowsay command. cowsay
Master the Art of the Product Manager No - Keep your meetings smooth and your priorities on track! engineering

Videos

Make Your Apps Move! Awesome Animations with React Native - Get ready for some serious app magic! Animations, those delightful little touches that make things slide, bounce, and swirl, are often treated like an afterthought. We're usually too busy obsessing over core features or wringing our hands over performance and complexity, but we’re here to flip the script! animations
Programming Should Be Simple - Deno is an all-in-one batteries included JavaScript and TypeScript toolchain. deno hot
OpenAI is terrified (there's finally a great open source LLM) - I never thought I'd see the day. Deepseek R1 is destroying every benchmark. It's also insanely cheap. ai, openai, deepseek
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Published on 2025-01-27, last updated on 2025-01-29 by Adam
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Adam Urban

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.