urban weekly #108
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How I use Tailscale - I’ve been using Tailscale for around four years to connect my disparate devices, servers and apps together. I wanted to talk a bit about how I use it, some cool features you might not know about, and some stumbling blocks I encountered. network, tailscale 🔥
an engineer's perspective on hiring - most companies suck at hiring. hiring, career, engineering
Introducing Open SWE - An Open-Source Asynchronous Coding Agent coding, agent
How I Code with AI on a budget/free - You don't have to spend hundreds of dollars on AI tools to get started. ai, budget
What we learned from creating PostCSS - 12 years ago, we created PostCSS, a CSS automation tool with 400M monthly downloads which is used by Google, Wikipedia, Tailwind, and 38% of developers. In this post, we share what we learned during this long journey maintaining such a popular open source project. postcss, experience, engineering v0.dev -> v0.app - v0.dev is now v0.app, the AI builder for everyone ai, vercel
What are Forward Deployed Engineers, and why are they so in demand? - Startups and scaleups are on a hiring spree for a software engineering role pioneered by Palantir. A deepdive into this role, and why FDEs are so popular in 2025 engineering
you do not have to use generative ai art in your blogs because there are websites where you can get real, nice images for free - so many free resources! free, images
A gentle introduction to anchor positioning - Anchor positioning allows you to place an element on the page based on where another element is. It makes it easier to create responsive menus and tooltips with less code using only CSS. Here’s how it works. css 
MCP UI - Bringing the Browser into the Agent goose, ai, mcp
Building a web search engine from scratch in two months with 3 billion neural embeddings - A while back, I decided to undertake a project to challenge myself: build a web search engine from scratch. search, ai 🔥
MCP Vulnerabilities Every Developer Should Know - This post covers the biggest risks (with real examples) and how to think about MCP securely. security, ai, mcp 🔥
Deploy Buttons - The Deploy Button offers a shortcut for users to create and deploy a new application on Deno Deploy based on existing 100code hosted in a Git repository. deno 
5 Useful CSS functions using the new @function rule - Currently, Chrome is the only browser to have shipped this feature, but it has gone through the CSSWG draft process. css If you're remote, ramble - A tip for remote teams of 2-10 people. Create a personal ramblings channel for each teammate in your team’s chat app of choice. engineering
Better CSS layouts: Time.com Hero Section - Taking another look at Time.com hero section. Can we do better? css 🔥
Read it! Read it! Read it!
AGENT.md - The Universal Agent Configuration File agent, ai 🔥
Code and Tools
Stan - Minimal, type-safe state management react
Engineering Blog Posts from Top Tech Companies - Latest software engineering articles, tutorials, and insights from Google, Meta, OpenAI, and more engineering, tech
Quickshell - Quickshell is a toolkit for building status bars, widgets, lockscreens, and other desktop components using QtQuick. ui, qt
ch.at - Universal Basic Chat llm, ai
Poltergeist - The ghost that keeps your builds fresh - Universal file watcher and build automation for any language. build, automation 🔥
Automerge - Automerge is a library of data structures for building collaborative applications. local-first
FFlags - You can define the flag logic in JavaScript so the responses are consistent and predictable. featureflags
POML - POML (Prompt Orchestration Markup Language) is a novel markup language designed to bring structure, maintainability, and versatility to advanced prompt engineering for Large Language Models (LLMs). llm, ai 🔥
TypeGPU - A modular and open-ended toolkit for WebGPU, with advanced type inference and the ability to write shaders in TypeScript typescript
Open Lovable - Clone and recreate any website as a modern React app in seconds ai
Bluefish - The missing diagramming framework diagrams 🔥
minifeed - Minifeed is a curated blog reader and search engine. blog, search
Pricing Pages - Explore a curated collection of the best pricing page examples pricing, galleries
sshrc - Bring your .bashrc, .vimrc, etc. with you when you ssh ssh, shell
Deterministic mesh gradients as a service. - Useful for avatars for example. colors, gradients
CSS-Questions - Test your CSS knowledge with 100+ questions on CSS from basic selectors to advanced topics like pseudo-classes, cascade layers, and container queries. css, questions, career
OGfolio - Curated Library of Open Graph Images og, images
Omnara - Talk to Your AI Agents from Anywhere! ai, chat, agent
Panda - Universal, Type-Safe, CSS-in-JS Framework for Design Systems css
Tutorials
Writing Your Own Simple Tab-Completions for Bash and Zsh - If you've built a CLI tool, you might want to add tab-completion to it. cli, bash 🔥
Safe JSON in script tags - How not to break a site json, security 🔥
Learn MCP - Build a Model Context Protocol server with Cloudflare Workers. mcp, cloudflare
Published on 2025-08-18, 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.
