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weeklyfoo #73 is here: your weekly digest of all webdev news you need to know! This time you'll find 34 valuable links in 7 categories! Enjoy!
🚀 Read it!
- Cloudflare, Unikernels & Bare Metal: Life of a Prisma Postgres Query: Prisma Postgres is the most innovative PostgreSQL database on the market. In this article, we dive deep into its technology stack, which enables lightning-fast queries, global caching, real-time events, and more. by Nikolas Burk / prisma, postgres, cloudlfare, unikernels / 13 min read
📰 Good to know
- Create contextual console loggers: Use different console loggers for different contexts. by devtoolstips.org / logs / 3 min read
- Small Tech: I frequently see debates about whether it's better to be a cog at a giant semi-monopoly, or to take investment money in the hopes of one day growing to be head cog at a giant semi-monopoly. by Jamie Brandon / career / 6 min read
- To avoid being replaced by LLMs, do what they can't: It’s a strange time to be a software engineer. Large language models are very good at writing code and rapidly getting better. by Sean Goedecke / llms, engineering / 5 min read
- ESLint now officially supports linting of CSS: Taking our next step towards providing a language-agnostic platform for source code linting. by Nicholas C. Zakas / eslint, css / 7 min read
- Astro 5.3: Next minor release of Astro by Matt Kane / astro / 7 min read
- My LLM codegen workflow atm: tl:dr; Brainstorm spec, then plan a plan, then execute using LLM codegen. Discrete loops. Then magic. by Harper Reed / llm / 17 min read
- Parsing JSON in 500 lines of Rust: Let Krish guide you through how to build a json parser in Rust. by Krish Krish / rust / 13 min read
- How I Migrated from WordPress to Astro: I migrated my blog from WordPress to Astro in 3 days! by Kedasha Kerr / astro / 7 min read
- When Imperfect Systems are Good, Actually: Bluesky's Lossy Timelines: Often when designing systems, we aim for perfection in things like consistency of data, availability, latency, and more. by Jaz / bluesky, scaling / 9 min read
- How Deno's documentation is evolving: Making good docs is a big task, but an important one. by Phil Hawksworth / docs, deno / 6 min read
- CSS @function + CSS if() = 🤯: This post is about an upcoming CSS feature. You can’t use it … yet. by Bramus / css / 11 min read
- Gaining Years of Experience in a Few Months: This is a followup to what I wrote about how someone can have 5 times 1 year of experience instead of 5 years of experience. Note that some concepts and ideas will overlap as this is just a different way to look at the same question of career growth and pace of learning. by Marc Gauthier / career / 6 min read
- suckless: software that sucks less by suckless.org / software / 8 min read
- Johnny Decimal: A system to organise your life by johnnydecimal.com / organization / 8 min read
🧰 Tools
- Typia: Super-fast/easy runtime validators and serializers via transformation by Jeongho Nam / typescript, validators
- Awesome CursorRules: A curated list of awesome .cursorrules files by PatrickJS / cursor
- Video Compressor: Compress videos right in the browser by up to 90% for free. No upload needed. by Addy Osmani / compression, videos
- fixi.js: fixi.js is an experimental, minimalist implementation of generalized hypermedia controls by Big Sky Software / html
- Scira: Scira (Formerly MiniPerplx) is a minimalistic AI-powered search engine that helps you find information on the internet. Powered by Vercel AI SDK! Search with models like Grok 2.0. by Zaid Mukaddam / ai, search
- Create React App for TanStack Router: Create-tsrouter-app is drop-in replacement for create-react-app that builds TanStack Router based SPA applications by TanStack / react, tanstack, vite
- reactbits: Hand-picked animated components collection for creative developers by reactbits.dev / react, ui, components
- LaLoka Layouts: Useful layouts for Tailwind CSS by lalokalabs.dev / tailwind
- RelaGit: The elegant solution to graphical version control. by rela.dev / git
- TypeConf: A Typescript tool to write configs with types. Manage your configs as code. Remove type errors, make configs easily shareable. Tool is installable via NPM, can be adopted incrementally! by typeconf.dev / typescript, config
- ezpa.ge: Build stunning form pages in minutes. No coding required. Perfect for collecting leads, signups, or feedback. Just customize your form and share your page with the world. by Charlie Clark / forms, gallery
- Pattern Club: A curated gallery to find pattern inspiration by patternclub.io / gallery, patterns
- GenSX: The TypeScript framework for agents & workflows with react-like components. Lightning fast dev loop. Easy to learn. Easy to extend. by gensx.com / ai
🎨 Design
- Checkbox Interactions: The beauty of Layout Animations by Enzo / checkboxes / 5 min read
🤪 Fun
- The 88x31 GIF Collection: A collection of 4540 classic 88x31 buttons from the 1990s, 2000s, and today in GIF format. by Philipp / gifs / 11 min read
- Running Pong in 240 Browser Tabs: Finally a use for my unclosed tabs by Nolen / browser-sync / 18 min read
📚 Tutorials
- Creating a Fun CSS Party Popper Animation: Learn how to create a custom loading animation. by Robin Mishra / css, animations / 8 min read
- Anchoreum: A game for learning CSS anchor positioning by anchoreum.com / css / 1 min read
📺 Videos
- Developer Experience: Lee Robinson talking about what Devex is about. by Lee Robinson / devex, devrel
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