urban weekly #108
weekly tech news so you don't have to read all the internet
Good to know
Keeping Secrets Out of Logs - There's no silver bullet, but if we put some lead bullets in the right places, we have a good shot at keeping sensitive data out of logs. logs 🔥
Why I Ditched Docker for Podman (And You Should Too) - Podman > Docker containerization
Stop writing CLI validation. Parse it right the first time. - I have this bad habit. When something annoys me enough times, I end up building a library for it. This time, it was CLI validation code. validation, cli 🔥
Building a better online editor for TypeScript - Val Towns intern rewrote the editor from scratch editor, typescript The Last Programmers - We're witnessing the final generation of people who translate ideas into code by hand. ai
The Micro SaaS Revolution: From Giants to Solopreneurs - The golden age of SaaS giants gave us Salesforce, Shopify, and Atlassian. But a quiet shift is underway, and it could redefine what building software looks like for everyone else. saas, startups, engineering
Color Shifting in CSS - An Exploration of Color Animation Techniques css, animation 🔥
How we built Product Intelligence - Last month we launched Product Intelligence to help product teams handle incoming issues and put them in the right place in the backlog. ai, linear
Tiger Style - Tiger Style is a coding philosophy focused on safety, performance, and developer experience. engineering
npm Author Qix Compromised via Phishing Email in Major Supply Chain Attack - npm author Qix’s account was compromised, with malicious versions of popular packages like chalk-template, color-convert, and strip-ansi published. security, npm Claude can now create and edit files - Claude can now create and edit Excel spreadsheets, documents, PowerPoint slide decks, and PDFs directly in Claude.ai and the desktop app. claude, ai
An Interactive Guide to TanStack DB - Learn what TanStack DB is, how it works, and why it might change the way you build apps. tanstack, database
I've tried Solid.js, now I'm starting to hate React - Some insights from the TanStack team! solidjs, react
Hashed sorting is typically faster than hash tables - Problem statement: count the unique values in a large array of mostly-unique uint64s. algorithms, sorting
Behind The Scenes of Bun Install - Running bun install is fast, very fast. bun, install 
Many Hard Leetcode Problems are Easy Constraint Problems - Use the right tool for the job. career, interviews, algorithms
A Deep Dive into Developer Experience Surveys - Developer experience describes the experience that developers have when developing software for your companies and teams. ux, devex
How to keep package.json under control - Val Town is a React application with a ton of dependencies. It's complicated, and we have to deal with dependency upgrades all the time. dependencies, javascript, npm 🔥
Read it! Read it! Read it!
The rise of async programming - I spend a decent amount of time reviewing code I didn't write. engineering, ai 🔥
Code and Tools
ck - Semantic grep tool for use by AI and humans! grep
ServerlessHorrors - Stories you never want to feel on your own skin serverless
mcp-lite - Lightweight, composable MCP framework for TypeScript mcp
flint - Lightweight tool for managing linux virtual machines kvm, linux
Greppers - A tiny, blazing‑fast directory of CLI commands with copy‑ready examples. Offline friendly. No BS. search, commands
YC Companies Map - Discover YC companies worldwide yc, map 
Jaaz - The world's first open-source multimodal creative assistant This is a substitute for Canva and Manus that prioritizes privacy and is usable locally. creativity, oss
HeroUI - Beautiful, fast and modern React UI library. ui, react Kelp - A UI library for people who love HTML, powered by modern CSS and Web Components. ui
React Bits - An open source collection of animated, interactive & fully customizable React components for building memorable websites. react, ui
React Horizontal Heatmap - A lightweight React component for rendering a horizontal heatmap. Perfect for timelines, activity charts, or health status indicators. Fully customizable colors, box size, and spacing. react, ui
Dotter - A dotfile manager and templater written in rust dotfiles 🔥
Term.Everything - Run any GUI app in the terminal terminal, gui 🔥
mdream - Convert any site to clean markdown & llms.txt. Boost your site's AI discoverability or generate LLM context for a project you're working with. markdown, llm 🔥
Jetzig - Jetzig is a web framework written in Zig zig, framework
Remote-friendly companies - A list of semi to fully remote-friendly companies (jobs) in tech. career, jobs
Andromeda - A modern, fast, and secure JavaScript & TypeScript runtime built from the ground up in Rust 🦀 and powered by Nova Engine and Oxc. rust, typescript 🔥
BlazeDiff - Blazing-fast pixel-by-pixel image comparison with block-based optimization. 1.5x times faster than pixelmatch with zero memory allocation. images, comparison
ts-to-zod - Generate zod schemas from typescript types/interfaces typescript, zod 
cursor.directory - Generate the new .mdc files for your project by uploading your .cursorrules, package.json, requirements.txt, or other project files. cursor
Tutorials
How To Set Up Express 5 For Production In 2025 - This article will help you build an Express 5 app with TypeScript. express 🔥
Videos
Building Scalable Applications - React Universe Conf 2025 react, performance
Branching in a Monorepo - git mini summit 2025 monorepo
Build An Agent in 10 mins with AI SDK 5 - AI Demo Days ai
Published on 2025-09-15, last updated on 2025-10-24 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.
