urban weekly #85

Plain Vanilla - An explainer for doing web development using only vanilla techniques. No tools, no frameworks — just HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. vanilla

Tixy Land - Examples of effects with minimal math formulas. animations 🔥

Hyper-Typing - In this article, I talk about an inherent trade-off in TypeScript's type system: stricter types are safer, but often more complex. typescript

Four years of running a SaaS in a competitive market - Insights from the founder of OnlineOrNot saas, startups

How to title your blog post or whatever - So you’ve made a thing. I’ll pretend it’s a blog post, though it doesn’t really matter. If people read your thing, some would like it, and some wouldn’t. blogs

What managing up really means - A Practical Guide to Working with Your Manager engineering

The Height Enigma - Unraveling the mystery of percentage-based heights in CSS css

Frontends are hard - In this post we look at why frontends have become so hard to deploy and why even the giant cloud providers like AWS, GCP, or Azure have really poor support. frontends

Scraperr - Scraperr enables you to extract data from websites with precision using XPath selectors. This self-hosted application provides a clean interface to manage scraping jobs, view results, and export data. scrapers

React Three - A React renderer for Three.js 3d, react

Aberdeen - A TypeScript/JavaScript library for quickly building performant declarative user interfaces without the use of a virtual DOM. frameworks

Gmail to SQLite - Index your Gmail account to a SQLite DB and play with the data. gmail, sqlite

Starguard - CLI that detects fake-star campaigns, dependency hijacks, licence red-flags and other signs of repository risk. Inspired by the 4.5 million fake stars study, StarGuard helps CTOs, security teams and investors perform fast, automated open-source due-diligence. github, checks, cli

Airweave - Airweave lets agents search any app ai, integrations, agents

Lumoar - Get audit-ready faster. Lumoar provides the essential tools your startup needs to organize SOC 2 compliance today, paving the way for seamless automation tomorrow. soc2

9ui - Beautiful, customizable components built with Base UI and Tailwind CSS. ui, components

bippy - hack into react internals react, debugging

PptxGenJS - Build PowerPoint presentations with JavaScript. Works with Node, React, web browsers, and more. pptx, powerpoint

Basecoat - A components library built with Tailwind CSS that works with any web stack. ui, components

Vectorizer - Convert PNGs to SVGs for free. Not perfect, but free and without registration. sqgs, vector

A bookmarklet for clearing cookies for the current page - Nothing to add to the title ;) bookmarklet

WebTUI - Modular CSS Library that brings the beauty of Terminal UIs to the browser ui

tscircuit - Make electronics using Typescript, React, and AI tools. electronics, react

Piny - Visual editor for Astro, React, Next.js & Tailwind that runs in your IDE ide

Awesome Tailwind Animations - Easy peasy animations for your Tailwind project tailwind, animations

The Slow Burn - Why UX Debt Quietly Erodes Your Product’s Value ux 🔥

Best Practices for Creating a Modern npm Package with Security in Mind - In this tutorial, we’re going to walk step by step through creating an npm package using modern best practices (as of 2025). npm

Build a Weather App with Agent Mode - In this clip from Agent Mode Day, Rob Lourens demos new features in Agent Mode and builds a weather app! vscode, ai 🔥

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Published on 2025-05-19, last updated on 2025-05-15 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.