weeklyfoo #6 is here: your weekly digest of all webdev news you need to know! This time you’ll find 56 valuable links in 6 categories! Enjoy!
🚀 Read it!
- Sam Altman: Productivity: I love to learn how others get more productive. Here’s one by Sam Altman. / productivity / 12 min read
📰 Good to know
- Habits of great software engineers: A list of eight ;) / habits / 26 min read
- Product/Market Fit: Experience & Data: Companies that achieve Product/Market Fit – both self-funded and VC-funded – exhibit the same prototypical metrics curves and subjective experiences. / pmf / 15 min read
- Post Mortem on Cloudflare Control Plane and Analytics Outage: I always like it if post mortems are made publicly available. / cloudflare / 20 min read
- Was Rust Worth It?: From JavaScript to Rust, three years in. / rust / 10 min read
- Announcing WinterJS: The most performant JavaScript Service Workers server thanks to Rust and SpiderMonkey / wasm, winterjs / 6 min read
- How to convince your management to refactor software: Refactoring your software is an important step that needs to be done regularly. Some good advices how to convince your management about it. / refactoring / 12 min read
- Angular.dev: The future home of Angular / angular / 2 min read
- Bluesky SQLite: Each user uses its own sqlite database locally / bluesky, sqlite / 10 min read
- Kubernetes: When and How to Apply It: K8s overview / k8s, kubernetes / 9 min read
- web-gl fluid simulation: super nice playground / webgl / 1 min read
- The Ultimate Interactive JQ Guide: Learn how to search, query, and modify JSON data with 25 interactive jq examples and explainations / json, jq / 14 min read
- Microservices aren’t the problem. Incompetent people are: Oh yeah / people / 21 min read
- Introducing Angular v17: Next major version of Angular / angular / 22 min read
- Don’t Build AI Products The Way Everyone Else Is Doing It: If you want to build AI products that are unique, valuable, and fast, don’t do what everybody else is doing. / ai / 17 min read
- It’s all just leadership after all: Managers and senior individual contributors: it’s all the same. / managers, leadership / 7 min read
- tech-interview-handbook: Curated coding interview preparation materials for busy software engineers / hiring, interview / 9 min read
- Deno 1.38: HTML doc generator and HMR / deno / 22 min read
🧰 Tools
- uicons: A growing icon library with a range of unusual styles. / icons
- Shoelace: A forward-thinking library of web components. / ui
- xAI PromptIDE: Integrated development environment for prompt engineering and interpretability research / ai, xai
- uxsniff: Revolutionize User Experience Insights with AI-Powered UXsniff / ux, ai
- Highstorm: Open Source Event Monitoring / analytics, events
- image-dimensions: Get the dimensions of an image / images, nodejs, javascript
- log-update: Log by overwriting the previous output in the terminal. Useful for rendering progress bars, animations, etc. / nodejs, javascript
- node-llama-cpp: Run AI models locally on your machine with node.js bindings for llama.cpp. Force a JSON schema on the model output on the generation level / nodejs, ai
- inshellisense: IDE style command line auto complete / terminal
- Ahrefs Webmaster Tools: Improve your website’s SEO performance and get more traffic from search. Free for website owners. / seo
- Typescale: Tool to play with type scales / fonts, typography
- Pebblely: Create Instagram-worthy photos for any product with the click of a button / images, photos, instagram
- 3DIcons: Beautifully crafted open source 3D icons / icons, 3d
- Button.cool: collection of free buttons to copy & paste in your project, made in codepen by awesome people / buttons
- DFlex: A Drag-and-Drop library for all JavaScript frameworks / dnd
- Vectorizer.AI: Trace Pixels To Vectors in Full Color / vector, ai
- tauri-tray-app: Starter project for developing desktop app with tray status using Tauri, React, Tailwind CSS, Typescript, and Vite. / tauri, react, starter
- sonner: An opinionated toast component for React. / toast, react
- yousign: Yousign is the easy-to-use, legally binding eSignature solution for all your documents. / signing
- Tech Stack File: Interesting idea to show everything what is in your repo / tech, repo
- sshx: A secure web-based, collaborative terminal / terminal, share
- animated icons: 1100+ Animated Icons for the Modern Web / icons
- moveable: Moveable! Draggable! Resizable! Scalable! Rotatable! Warpable! Pinchable! Groupable! Snappable! / typescript
- capture-website: Capture screenshots of websites / screenshots
- Minisearch: Tiny and powerful JavaScript full-text search engine for browser and Node / typescript, nodejs, javascript
- spacekit: Spacekit is an open-source JavaScript library for creating interactive 3D space visualizations - whether of the Earth/moon system, solar system, or beyond. / javascript
- Svelte Flow: A customizable Svelte component for building node-based editors and interactive diagrams by the creators of React Flow / svelte, flows
- monaspace: An innovative superfamily of fonts for code / fonts
- nango: A single API for all your integrations. / api, integration
- react-google-maps: React component and hooks library for Google Maps / react, google maps
- Domainr: Really fast search for domains / domains
- Undercase Type: Nice fonts / fonts
- Shape Divider: Create custom shape dividers / css, dividers
- yearmonth.day: Super simple and clean calendar web app / calendars
🎨 Design
- 50 fonts that will be popular with designers in 2024: Which typefaces are going to be hot in the year to come? / fonts / 33 min read
- Landbook: website design inspiration gallery / websites / 5 min read
☁️ Serverless
- wasmer: Run, Publish & Deploy any code - anywhere / wasm, faas / 4 min read
📚 Tutorials
- Building AI Applications with LangChain and Node.js: Thanks Julian Duque! / ai, nodejs, landchain / 8 min read