urban weekly #108
weekly tech news so you don't have to read all the internet
Good to know
Guid Smash - The chances of generating two GUIDs that are the same is astronomically small. guids 🔥
The future of large files in Git is Git - If Git had a nemesis, it’d be large files. git
Best Practices for Building Agentic AI Systems - What Actually Works in Production ai, agent 
Just people in a room - Entertaining post about leadership. leadership, engineering
Team OKRs in Action - From Strategy to Real Results okrs, performance
Vibe Coding Tips and Tricks - Note This field is evolving quickly, and we will update this guide as new methods and recommendations arise. ai, vibe-coding 🔥
New Is The New Black - Productive Ignorance--Better & worse ways to not understand engineering
npm Adopts OIDC for Trusted Publishing in CI/CD Workflows - npm now supports Trusted Publishing with OIDC, enabling secure package publishing directly from CI/CD workflows without relying on long-lived tokens. npm, oidc, security 🔥
How I Built a Full-Stack React Framework 4x Faster Than Next.js With 4x More Throughput - Today, I'm excited to introduce Runtime Accelerated Rendering Infrastructure (Rari), a full-stack React framework that delivers performance numbers I once thought impossible with React. rust, performance, framework
Everything I Know About GitHub Copilot Instructions - From Zero to Onboarded (For Real) ai, instructions
how to stop feeling lost in tech: the wafflehouse method - you need to sit for this one for 48h growth, performance 🔥
State of CSS 2025 - Annual css report for 2025 css, report Read it! Read it! Read it!
Traps to Developers - A summarization of some traps to developers. There traps are unintuitive things that are easily misunderstood and cause bugs. engineering 🔥
Code and Tools
OverType - A lightweight markdown editor library with perfect WYSIWYG alignment using an invisible textarea overlay technique. Includes optional toolbar. ~45KB minified with all features. editor, markdown 🔥
Doxx - Expose the contents of .docx files without leaving your terminal. Fast, safe, and smart — no Office required! docx, terminal 🔥
Llama Scan - Transcribe PDFs with local LLMs pdfs, ollama, llm
Lue - Terminal eBook Reader with Text-to-Speech ebooks, terminal
EloqKV - Redis/Valkey Compatible Distributed Transactional Key-Value Store kv, redis
Bytebot - Bytebot is a self-hosted AI desktop agent that automates computer tasks through natural language commands, operating within a containerized Linux desktop environment. ai
This could be the start of something small - RedwoodSDK is a React framework for building server-side web apps on Cloudflare serverless, react Embedding Atlas - Embedding Atlas is a tool that provides interactive visualizations for large embeddings. It allows you to visualize, cross-filter, and search embeddings and metadata. embeddings, visualizations
LooksSame - Node.js library for comparing images nodejs, images
Yikes - our infinite knowledge entertainment system (a text-based RPG sandbox powered by local llm's) games, llm
Claudia - A powerful GUI app and Toolkit for Claude Code - Create custom agents, manage interactive Claude Code sessions, run secure background agents, and more. ai, claude
Twick - AI-powered video editor SDK built with React. Features canvas timeline, drag-and-drop editing, AI captions, and serverless MP4 export. Perfect for building custom video apps. ai, videos
PikaPods - Instant Open Source App Hosting hosting, oss 
Epicenter - Epicenter is an ecosystem of open-source, local-first apps. local-first, oss
Hoverly - Add nice on-hover effects to your links and headings animations, effects, css
Pattern Craft - Professional-grade background patterns and gradients. Easily copy the code and seamlessly integrate it into your projects. css, patterns
Parlant - LLM agents built for control. Designed for real-world use. Deployed in minutes. llm, ai
Firecrawl - The Web Data API for AI - Turn entire websites into LLM-ready markdown or structured data ai, api
Optique - Type-safe combinatorial CLI parser for TypeScript typescript, cli
Sim - Sim is an open-source AI agent workflow builder. Sim's interface is a lightweight, intuitive way to rapidly build and deploy LLMs that connect with your favorite tools. ai, agent 🔥
All about Design
Why Good UX Isn't Enough - Lessons from the internal combustion engine ux 
Fun
Prime Grid - Prime Grid creates a simple, adjustable grid that plots prime numbers in a left-to-right, top-to-bottom layout. Use it to find interesting visual patterns, do some smart-person math stuff, or maybe find the secret code to the cosmos or whatever. math 🔥
Email is Easy - Everyone knows what an email address is, right? emails
Tutorials
Run Express.js on Cloudflare Workers - As of August 5th, 2025 and wrangler 4.28.0, Cloudflare Workers extends its Node.js compatibility efforts, and now supports running Express.js apps directly and natively (in local development, production availability coming soon)! cloudflare, express 🔥
Using the Custom Highlight API - The Custom Highlight API came to my attention recently as Firefox recently started supporting it (Firefox 140, June 2025), which brought support across all the major browsers. css 🔥
Videos
React Mock Interview - Kent C. Dodds, Jack Herrington & Roadside Coder Solve React Coding Question react
Published on 2025-08-25, 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.
