urban weekly #108
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Introducing Codex - A cloud-based software engineering agent that can work on many tasks in parallel, powered by codex-1. openai, ai
Ditching Obsidian and building my own - A developer is building it's own PKMS pkms, lifosy
Vibe coding is rewriting the rules of technology - The AI-driven approach takes you from idea to app in minutes. ai
From Next.js to Astro - A Page Size Comparison nextjs, astro 
Practical advice for engineers in these troubled times - Re-think your habits and how you've been working in the past. engineering
A leap year check in three instructions - With the following code, we can check whether a year is a leap year with only about 3 CPU instructions. algorithms
Moving from Notion to Obsidian - Story about moving from Notion to Obsidian including flows and plugins. productivity 🔥
CSS snippets - Useful css snippets by Jeremy. css
Collaborative Text Editing without CRDTs or OT - Collaborative text editing is arguably the hardest feature to implement in a collaborative app. Even if you use a central server and a fully general solution to optimistic local updates (server reconciliation), text editing in particular requires fancy algorithms - specifically, the core of a text-editing CRDT or OT. algorithms
MCP explained without hype or fluff - Model Context Protocol, like most protocols, solves the M ⨯ N integration problem by turning it into an M + N integration problem. mcp 🔥
A Technology Leader's Non-Technical Reading List - Inspired by the posts A VP Product’s Reading List and A Startup Reading List, here I’ll share my personal favorite reading materials that have helped me think about leadership, management, people and technology. leadership
What causes procrastination for software engineers? - Task vagueness, stress, and complexity drive delays. Procrastination can hurt team trust, but also boosted creativity. engineering Practical AI techniques for daily engineering work - I love these ones: the second opinion and the throwaway technique. engineering, ai 🔥
6 Ways Slack, Notion, and VSCode Improved Electron App Performance - This post is a complete guide on exploiting every Electron performance optimization I know so that you can get the most mileage. electron, performance 🔥
Read it! Read it! Read it!
A Brief History of JavaScript - This year, JavaScript turns 30. javascript, history 🔥
Code and Tools
MCP Directory - Directory for Awesome MCP Servers mcp BrowserBee - AI-powered browser assistant (Cline for web browsing) ai, agent
Natural Language Web - Building conversational interfaces for websites is hard. NLWeb seeks to make it easy for websites to do this. And since NLWeb natively speaks MCP, the same natural language APIs can be used both by humans and agents. ai, mcp, microsoft
Dither me this - Use this tool to reduce the file size of an image… but in a stylish old-school way. images, dither 🔥
PicoSSG - The anti-framework static site generator. No config. No nonsense. Just files in, files out. static-websites Astra - Fast, reliable and easy-to-use js-to-exe compiler. compiler, exe
prompt-kit - Core building blocks for AI apps. High-quality, accessible, and customizable components for AI interfaces. ai, ui, ux
jsPad - JavaScript playground playground, javascript
A JavaScript utility for posting across multiple social networks at once - social, socialmedia Human Who Codes 🔥
CSV to HTML Table - Display any CSV (comma separated values) file as a searchable, filterable, pretty HTML table csv, table, html
stagewise - stagewise is a browser toolbar that connects your frontend UI to your code ai agents in your code editor. browser, ai, ide
Announcing a new IDE for PostgreSQL in VS Code from Microsoft - We are excited to announce the public preview of the brand-new PostgreSQL extension for Visual Studio Code (VS Code), designed to simplify PostgreSQL database management and development workflows. postgres, vscode
SQLite-JS Extension - Create custom SQLite functions in JavaScript. Extend your database with scalars, aggregates, window functions, and collations directly in JavaScript. sqlite
Defuddle - Extract the main content from web pages. web, scraping, parsing 🔥
Social Proof Examples - Disover strategies to build trust, drive conversions, and grow your brand. gallery
RenderHooks - Inline render-block-stable React hooks react, hooks
SnapDOM - snapDOM captures HTML elements as images with exceptional speed and accuracy. images 🔥
Fun
Digital Timer in CSS - If you think CSS has some limitations, check this out! css 🔥
Tutorials
Short alphanumeric pseudo random identifiers in Postgres - In this post, we’ll cover a way to generate short, alphanumeric, pseudo random identifiers using native Postgres tactics. postgres, sql
Videos
Introduction to JavaScript Frameworks - Have you ever wondered why it feels like there are so many JavaScript Frameworks? In this video we will look at 5 popular frameworks: React, Angular, Vue, Svelte, and Solid, to better understand why they exist, how they work, and what makes them unique. javascript, framework 🔥
Published on 2025-05-26, 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.
