urban weekly #108
weekly tech news so you don't have to read all the internet
Good to know
P-Hacking in Startups - When agile experimentation at startups becomes a p-hacking trap experiments, startups
Everything I know about good system design - State management, databases, ... engineering 🔥
Zero is Not Local-First. It's Better. - If you've used local-first libraries before, you'll know the pitch. local-first
How to Vibe Code as a Senior Engineer - Over the past few months, I’ve rediscovered my love for building software. ai, vibe-coding
Career advice, or something like it - Cynicism is bad. career 🔥
levered beta is all you need - how to win by riding waves you didn't make. ai
Worker Threads in Node.js - A Complete Guide for Multithreading in JavaScript nodejs, multithreading 🔥
SVGO 4.0.0 - Major release of SVGO. svg
Hono 4.8.0 - Minor release of Hono. hono Cloudflare Containers are here. - Watch our container platform open beta launch event! Learn about the platform, see demos, explore the road map, and get your questions answered. cloudflare 
Feedback Is Not an Attack - Feedback isn’t just critique. It’s care. feedback, engineering 🔥
React Re-Renders - What triggers React re-renders? react
Vite 7.0 is out! - Next major version of Vite vite 🔥
I Deleted My Second Brain - Why I Erased 10,000 Notes, 7 Years of Ideas, and Every Thought I Tried to Save second-brain, productivity
Read it! Read it! Read it!
Programming as Theory Building - Why Senior Developers Are More Valuable Than Ever engineering, ai 🔥
Code and Tools
Delta Chat - Delta Chat is a decentralized and secure messenger app messaging
Claude Code for VSCode - Claude Code seamlessly integrates with popular Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) to enhance your coding workflow. This integration allows you to leverage Claude’s capabilities directly within your preferred development environment. ai, vscode, claude 🔥
Compare - Compare is a free and open-source compensation comparison tool for job offers in the tech industry. career, compensation
Pickaxe - A Typescript library for building AI agents that scale ai, agent 🔥
VSCan - Proactively analyze Visual Studio Code extensions for security vulnerabilities and ensure a safer development environment. security, vscode
Intl-T - A Fully-Typed Object-Based i18n Translation Library. i18n 
syntax-highlight element - Syntax Highlighting using the CSS Custom Highlight API syntax-highlighting, css
Alchemy - Alchemy is an embeddable, TypeScript-native Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) library for modeling Resources that are Created, Updated and Deleted automatically. It's like Terraform, but in pure TypeScript. iac, typescript
Apptainer - Application containers for Linux containers, linux
Magnitude - Magnitude uses vision AI to enable you to control your browser with natural language ai, agent AI Dataset Generator - Create realistic datasets for demos, learning, and dashboards ai, datasets
Tutorials
Build your first iOS app on Linux / Windows - Once you’ve completed Installation (Linux/Windows), use xtool to build and deploy an iOS app from your Linux/Windows machine. ios, linux A guide to Scroll-driven Animations with just CSS - CSS animations have come a long way since Apple first introduced them to the web in 2007. What started as simple effects like animating from one color to another has turned into beautiful, complex images twisting and flying across the page. css, animations 🔥
Videos
Software Is Changing (Again) - AI Startup School in San Francisco ai 🔥
Published on 2025-06-30, 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.
