weeklyfoo #9 is here: your weekly digest of all webdev news you need to know! This time you’ll find 43 valuable links in 4 categories! Enjoy!
📰 Good to know
- Need a PRNG? Use a CSPRNG: Random numbers, but better. / random, rags / 13 min read
- Unexpected upsides of building a hard startup: Hard startups story / startups / 3 min read
- Retries: An interactive study of common retry methods / http requests, retries / 12 min read
- Understanding Deep Learning: Free book about deep learning / deep learning / 7 min read
- The best inventions of 2023: 200 innovations changing how we live / inventions / 21 min read
- Demystifying Web Push Notifications: All about web push / web push / 8 min read
- Just Ship, Baby: No excuses not to ship / delivery / 7 min read
- HTML Dom: Code snippets to manipulate the DOM / dom / 11 min read
- Node Chardet: Character encoding detection tool for NodeJS / encoding, nodejs / 5 min read
- Leaked GPTs: List of leaked GPTs / ai, gpt / 13 min read
- Weird HTML Hacks: 10 hacky website coding strategies / hacks, web / 21 min read
- Writing Documentation for Your House: Never thought about it, but makes totally sense. / docs / 7 min read
- Astro 4.0 Beta Release: Beta of next major version of Astro / astro / 4 min read
- Announcing Deno Cron: Scheduled function invocations / deno, cron / 6 min read
- Firefox Developer Edition and Beta: Try out Mozilla’s .deb package!: Firefox new deb package / firefox, linux / 3 min read
- Tech predictions for 2024 and beyond: I love predictions ;) / 2024, predictions / 15 min read
- The evolving landscape of API protocols in 2023: Nice overview about api protocols / api, protocols / 17 min read
- 6 tiny wording tweaks to level up your communication as a software engineer: 6 small tipps / communication / 2 min read
🧰 Tools
- IP Guide: Your guide to internet numbers / ips
- UI Faces: A growing library of free, AI-generated, high-resolution avatars for design mockups, thoughtfully curated to suit all your creative needs / faces
- Colour Contrast Checker: a11y color checker / a11y
- Secretlint: Pluggable linting tool to prevent committing credential. / linters, secrets
- AWS lite: simple, extremely fast, extensible Node.js client for interacting with AWS / aws, nodejs
- Process Compose: Process Compose is a simple and flexible scheduler and orchestrator to manage non-containerized applications. / orchestrator
- Grimoire: Bookmark manager for the wizards / bookmarks
- Biome: A toolchain for web projects, aimed to provide functionalities to maintain them. Biome offers formatter and linter, usable via CLI and LSP. / linters, formatters
- CSS Animotion: CSS Animations with No-Code / css, animations
- jaq: A jq clone focussed on correctness, speed, and simplicity / json, cli
- llamafile: Distribute and run LLMs with a single file. / ai, llama
- Beautiful-tree: Beautiful-Tree is a lightweight & flexible library to draw trees as SVG images. / react, svg
- svg.io: Text prompt to SVG / ai, svg
- Guthub wrapped: Metrics around your github profile / github
- qdorks: Composing Advanced Google Queries, made easy. / google, search
- Free Profile Picture Generator: Provided by HeadshotPro / ai, pfp
- quivr: Your GenAI Second Brain / ai, second brain
🎨 Design
- Emailspiration: The best emails, hand picked by the team building Audienceful. / emails, templates / 2 min read
- An accessible website won’t be beautiful… really?!: Tipps about a11y with lots of useful tools / a11y / 14 min read
- Crafting A Killer Brand Identity For A Digital Product: How to create a brand identity / brand / 25 min read
- Reddit Sans: The typeface of the internet. / fonts / 5 min read
- Cookie Permissions 101: Cookie permissions need to follow the law and strike the balance between respecting user privacy and being user-friendly. / cookies, consent / 16 min read
- Marbla: Marbla is an experimental display typeface exploring the possibilities of variable fonts to change the mood and personality of a typeface. / fonts / 2 min read
- Microsoft Paint’s OpenAI-powered ‘Cocreator’ image generator is here: Paint with DALL-E / ai, microsoft, paint / 4 min read
📺 Videos
- 10 JavaScript changes you missed in 2023: Watch it, just around 6 minutes / javascript