urban weekly #108
weekly tech news so you don't have to read all the internet
Good to know
How I influence tech company politics as a staff software engineer - Many software engineers are fatalistic about company politics. engineering 
BrowserPod - In-browser full-stack environments for IDEs and Agents via Wasm wasm 🔥
cleaning house in nx monorepo, how i removed 120 unused deps safely - Short version, I ran Knip across our Nx repo, took the unused list as a hint, deleted candidates, built, tested, booted apps, and put a few back when they were secretly used. dependencies, npm 🔥
vercel vs cloudflare - two philosophies of building for developers vercel, cloudflare
Which Table Format Do LLMs Understand Best? - Results for 11 Formats llms, ai AI and Home-Cooked Software - Everyone is worried that AI will replace programmers. They're missing the real revolution: AI is turning everyone into one. ai, engineering
You're Only Using 20% of Claude Code - Here's How to Unlock the Rest - Most devs are underutilizing Claude Code. These 5 advanced strategies will turn it into your most powerful engineering teammate claude, ai
15 Recent Node.js Features that Replace Popular npm Packages - Over the years, Node.js developers have relied on countless npm packages to fill gaps in the platform. nodejs, npm 🔥
How Deno protects against npm exploits - You can use Deno to run your Node apps (without any code change) to help mitigate these security vulnerabilities. deno, security
State of the software engineering jobs market, 2025 - What hiring managers see engineering, hiring
Linux Foundation Announces Intent to Launch the React Foundation - New foundation will steward React and React Native, supported by industry leaders and community contributors react, oss, linux 🔥
A pragmatic guide to modern CSS colours - part one css, design
New shadcn components - New components. This time it's the boring stuff. The things we rebuild over and over. Made into components. Button Group, Field, Input Group, Empty States, Item. shadcn, ui
What's coming in ESLint v10.0.0 - We want to share with you the significant changes that will be coming in v10.0.0 so you can better prepare for the changes and understand why the changes are necessary. eslint, javascript
The Programmer Identity Crisis - On AI, Creativity, and Craft engineering, ai 🔥
The Email They Shouldn't Have Read - A story about vendor lock-in and predatory business practices lockin, story 🔥
State of AI Report - All around AI ai, report 
Winners announced! - Here are the winners of the fourteenth annual js13kGames competition! js13kGames, competition
Read it! Read it! Read it!
Scaling Engineering Teams - Lessons from Google, Facebook, and Netflix engineering, performance 🔥
Code and Tools
Markdown Printer - Save web pages as Markdown files with preserved formatting. Perfect for documentation, articles, and note-taking. markdown
Minimal PWA - Minimal files + config for a PWA pwa
Run - Universal multi-language runner and smart REPL written in Rust. rust, cli
Rio - A hardware-accelerated GPU terminal emulator focusing to run in desktops and browsers. terminal, gpu 
Sera UI - UI component library for React, Next.js, and other JSX frameworks. Built with Tailwind CSS, it makes creating beautiful, interactive and responsive interfaces fast and easy. ui, react Caddy - Fast and extensible multi-platform HTTP/1-2-3 web server with automatic HTTPS tls, http
/dev/push - Like Vercel, but open source and for all languages. infra 🔥
Neumorphism Generator - Create soft UI neumorphism effects with visual controls. Perfect for modern, minimal interface designs. ui, design
Coinbase Design System - Coinbase Design System is a cross-platform component library for React and React Native. CDS has high adoption in every product at Coinbase, accelerating development and ensuring a consistent user experience across all platforms. design, ui Accented - A frontend library for continuous accessibility testing and issue highlighting a11y, ui
itty - Ultra-small, powerful tools for modern web development. javascript, tools
massCode - A free, open-source code snippet manager to create, organize, and instantly access your personal snippet library. editor
ut - A Rust based utilty toolbox for developers. rust, cli 🔥
blogr - A fast, lightweight static site generator built in Rust for creating and managing blogs. blog, rust
Shotgun - Shotgun is a CLI that turns what you want to work on into research - specs - plans - tasks - implementation with full codebase understanding and agents doing the heavy lifting. spec, cli 🔥
ElevenLabs UI - ElevenLabs UI is a component library and custom registry built on top of shadcn/ui to help you build multimodal agents faster. ui
slow-redact - Smart object redaction for JavaScript applications - safe AND fast! javascript, security
Jetski - Authentication, analytics, and prompt visibility for MCP servers with zero code changes. Supports OAuth2.1, DCR, real-time logs, and client onboarding out of the box ai, mcp
Search Input Query - Search input query parser and React component react, search, query 🔥
Mirrow - SVGs. One file. Zero fuss. svg 🔥
css-extras - Useful CSS custom functions using the new function rule css 
All about Design
7 Practical Animation Tips - One mistake I made early in my career was thinking that design, and animations in particular, are an art you either get or you don’t. css, javascript
Videos
Vite - The Documentary vite, documentary 🔥
Published on 2025-10-13, 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.
