urban weekly #108
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The Best Advice I Got at PagerDuty - 7 Tips from 7 years at PagerDuty engineering
Live coding sucks - Why I believe live coding is NOT fair career
How we made JSON.stringify more than twice as fast - This will speed up lots of applications ;) javascript 🔥
DrawAFish.com Postmortem - Aug 3, 2025 Incident incidents 🔥
You Have Too Many Metrics - Metrics can be incredibly powerful. But you have too many of them. metrics, engineering
npm trusted publishing with OIDC is generally available - As of today, npm trusted publishing with OpenID Connect (OIDC) is now generally available. npm What’s New in ViteLand - July 2025 Recap vite 
No, AI is not Making Engineers 10x as Productive - Curing Your AI 10x Engineer Imposter Syndrome ai, engineering
The Multi-Repository TypeScript Problem - Navigating Type Safety Across Service Boundaries typescript, monorepos, polyrepos
You can spot base64 encoded JSON, certificates, and private keys - Look out for eyJ...! base64, json
The web isn’t URL-shaped anymore - Optimize the graph! seo, ai
We shouldn’t have needed lockfiles - About the non sense of lockfiles lockfiles, npm
Built With Borrowed Hands - I spent two months forcing an unnatural constraint on myself: what if I could only rely on agents writing code for a real-world production service? ai
Linear sent me down a local-first rabbit hole - I started using Linear a couple of months ago and using it made me go down a technical rabbit hole that changed how I think about web applications. local-first
Notes to myself - 65 Thoughts notes, self-reflection 🔥
Deploy Hono backends with zero configuration - Vercel now natively supports Hono, a fast, lightweight backend framework built on web standards, with zero-configuration. hono, vercel 🔥
Read it! Read it! Read it!
Rust, Python, and TypeScript - The new trifecta rust, python, typescript 🔥
Code and Tools
tsints - a parser for typescript types, written in typescript types (no js here!) typescript 
Sidequest - Sidequest is a modern, scalable background job processor for Node.js applications. nodejs 🔥
Express Slow Down - Slow down repeated requests; use as an alternative (or addition) to express-rate-limit express, nodejs
Tambo - Add generative UI components to your AI assistant, copilot, or agent. ui Underrated Profitable Websites - Discover simple online business ideas that succeed without websites, gallery
Progress Tracker - A HTML component to illustrate the steps in a multi step process e.g. a multi step form, a timeline or a quiz. ui
Hyvector - SVG editor svg 🔥
EvilCharts - A Beautiful & Animated Chart UI Website built on top of shadcn & recharts. ui, charts pgline - The fastest PostgreSQL JS driver written in TypeScript postgres 🔥
comptime.ts - Compile-time evaluation of expressions for smaller bundles! typescript
Rumicat - Send newsletters without all the poespas. newsletters 🔥
HMPL.js - Server-oriented customizable templating for JavaScript. Alternative to HTMX and Alpine.js. framework
MathJax - MathJax source code for version 3 and beyond math 
AwesomeIndex - Awesome Repositories Search Engine awesome, gallery
All about Design
If the moon were only 1 pixel - A tediously accurate scale model of the solar system scale, website 🔥
The Age of the Super IC - While everyone’s looking up the ladder, the biggest opportunities are happening at the individual contributor level. design 🔥
Tutorials
Simulating Hand-Drawn Motion with SVG Filters - A practical guide to implementing the boiling line animation effect using SVG filter primitives and JavaScript svg
Let's Write React Hooks From Scratch - An Array-Focused Intro to Hooks react
Videos
How JavaScript Really Evolves - Inside TC39 with Daniel Ehrenberg javascript
Published on 2025-08-11, 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.
