weeklyfoo #1 is here: your weekly digest of all webdev news you need to know! This time you’ll find 18 valuable links in 5 categories! Enjoy!
🚀 Read it!
- Death by a thousand microservices: What a fun and really good blog post. One of my highlights this week. / architecture / 15 min read
- Was Javascript really made in 10 days?: TLDR: no ;) / javascript / 3 min read
📰 Good to know
- The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Must Know About Unicode in 2023: Ever wanted to learn the basics about Unicode? Read this blog post by Nikita. / unicode, knowledge / 19 min read
- Gmail is getting emoji reactions: lol, but y? / gmail / 5 min read
- Cloud Costs Every Programmer Should Know: A basic understanding about what your resources cost is essential. / cloud, costs / 15 min read
🧰 Tools
- instant.dev: New Postgres-focused ORM library available! / orm, postgres
- Epic Easing: Easily create curve animations / css
- VaVite: Develop server side apps with Vite / vite, server
- zany: easy, free & configurable hosted favicons / favicons
- easy-speech: Cross browser Speech Synthesis also known as Text to speech or TTS; no dependencies; uses Web Speech API / speech
- charts css: It uses CSS utility classes to style HTML elements as charts. / css, charts
- craft.js: React framework for building powerful & feature-rich drag-n-drop page editors / react, page editor
🎨 Design
- UserStock: Free photos of people’s faces to use as avatars in UI mockups, prototypes and more. / photos, people / 1 min read
- neobrutalism components: A collection of type-safe components written in React and Tailwind / react, components / 1 min read
- Harmony: Accessible UI Color Palette / colors, a11y / 1 min read
- 9 Simple But Powerful UX Writing Tips for Designers in 2024: Quick read with some good advice. / ux, writing / 5 min read
- Color Claims: Super simple but nice two color combinations / colors / 3 min read
☁️ Serverless
- Shuttle: Build & ship backends without writing any infrastructure files, for Rust! / rust, infra / 9 min read