urban weekly #108
weekly tech news so you don't have to read all the internet
Good to know
Vibing a Non-Trivial Ghostty Feature - I recently shipped a non-trivial Ghostty feature (unobtrusive macOS automatic updates) that was largely developed with AI. ai, ghostty 🔥
GitHub Spark in public preview - for Copilot Enterprise subscribers copilot, ai GraphQL Myths - GraphQL has been around for nearly a decade, yet the same misconceptions persist in tech discussions and architecture reviews. graphql
Announcing Vite+ - A unified toolchain for JavaScript vite, linter, prettier 
Introducing Claude Haiku 4.5 - Anthropic released Claude Haiku 4.5 today, the cheapest member of the Claude 4.5 family that started with Sonnet 4.5 a couple of weeks ago. ai, claude
Why we're leaving serverless - Every millisecond matters when you're in the critical path of API authentication. After two years of fighting serverless limitations, we rebuilt our entire API stack and slashed the end-to-end latency. serverless, latency 🔥
Claude Skills are awesome, maybe a bigger deal than MCP - Anthropic this morning introduced Claude Skills, a new pattern for making new abilities available to their models. ai, claude 🔥
You Still Need to Think - As coding agents become more capable and long-running, they don't remove the human job of thinking. ai 🔥
How to Use AI to Help With Software Engineering Tasks - Use the C.R.A.F.T.E.D. prompt framework to save time with common SWE tasks! ai, prompts 🔥
Bun 1.3 - Bun 1.3 is our biggest release yet. bun 🔥
Read it! Read it! Read it!
What's The Deal With GitHub Spec Kit - I get to finally write a bit about a project I was knee-deep in for the past month - GitHub Spec Kit. github, spec, kit 🔥
Code and Tools
Scribe OCR - Web interface for recognizing text, proofreading OCR, and creating fully-digitized documents. ocr 🔥
PWA Browser Scorecards - Compare Progressive Web App capabilities across popular mobile (and soon, desktop) browsers. pwa, browsers Nitro - Next Generation Server Toolkit. Create web servers with everything you need and deploy them wherever you prefer. server, toolkit, framework, typescript 🔥
Harmonizer - Color Palette Generator colors
Size Matters - Type Scale Generator typography
Mina Rich Editor - The first block-based rich text editor built entirely with Tailwind CSS and shadcn/ui. editor, tailwind, shadcn 
MAML - Minimal. Human-readable. Machine-parsable. markup
Free OG Image Generator - Create beautiful OG Images, Twitter/X Header Images, Blog Featured Images & more for free, in simple clicks. og, image, generator
DevTools - Your Ultimate Developer Toolkit tools
WAHA - WhatsApp HTTP API (REST API) that you can install on your own server and run in less than 5 minutes! api, whatsapp, http, rest 🔥
Cloudflare Sandbox - Execute commands, manage files, run services, and expose them via public URLs - all within secure, sandboxed containers. sandbox, cloudflare 🔥
Deckless - Beautiful presentations from plain text. No design skills required. presentation, markdown, design
Skeleton - Skeleton is an adaptive design system powered by Tailwind CSS. ui, tailwind Graffle - Simple GraphQL Client for JavaScript. Minimal. Extensible. Type Safe. Runs everywhere. graphql, client, javascript
Zero - Zero is a new kind of sync engine powered by queries. sync, database, queries 🔥
All about Design
Guide to the Inclusive Design Principles - The Inclusive Design Principles (IDP) were first published in 2016 by myself, Ian Pouncey, Léonie Watson, and Heydon Pickering. principles 
UX so bad that it's illegal - Big tech is divesting from user-centered design, and getting into hot water with the law. ux
Fun
HN Live - Someone has build a live stream for Hacker News hackernews
Tutorials
Reading and Writing Files in Node.js - The Complete Modern Guide nodejs
JavaScript tutorial on the fern fractal - There’s a quiet magic in the Barnsley fern—a simple set of rules that blossoms into a living, leafy pattern. fern, fractal 
Videos
Beyond Signals - Signals and fine-grained reactivity have recently become staples in modern JavaScript frameworks. signals, javascript
Published on 2025-10-20, 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.
