weeklyfoo #11

weeklyfoo #11 is here: your weekly digest of all webdev news you need to know! This time you’ll find 49 valuable links in 6 categories! Enjoy!

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All my favorite tracing tools: eBPF, QEMU, Perfetto, new ones I built and more: Great article on tracing tools / tracing / 23 min read
10 hard-to-swallow truths they won’t tell you about software engineer job: Super nice read / job / 18 min read
You don’t need JavaScript for that: Super nice article, there’s also a native element for a color picker. / javascript, html, css / 15 min read

A deep dive into CPU requests and limits in Kubernetes: CPU requests and limits, if you want to learn more about it, read it. / k8s / 28 min read
You are never taught how to build quality software: Talk about money! / qa / 8 min read
Mistral AI, a Paris-based OpenAI rival, closed its $415 million funding round: Valuated at roughly $2 billion / ai, mistral / 4 min read
10 GitHub Repos to Improve as a Backend Engineer: Good list / nodejs, backend / 8 min read
Under Pressure: Benchmarking Node.js on a Single-Core EC2: Detailed insights about hammering a nodejs app / nodejs, ec2 / 22 min read
Bash One-Liners for LLMs: Nothing to add… / bash, ai, llm / 16 min read
Announcing Million 3.0: Next major version of Million.js / million.js / 6 min read
Every engineer should understand git reflog: Didn’t know it exists ;) / git / 8 min read
Announcing SvelteKit 2: Next major version of SvelteKit / svelte / 3 min read
Should you add screenshots to documentation?: Pros and cons for using screenshots in your docs. / screenshots, docs / 7 min read
Interviewing my mother, a mainframe COBOL programmer: COBOL!!! / cobol / 1 min read
Deleting 50,000 Lines of Code in 3 Days: One of the most joyful tasks in software engineering: deleting code / code / 6 min read
pypush: Cross-platform iMessage POC / iMessage / 5 min read

CSS-peeps: Notion like avatar in CSS / css, avatars
esm.sh: Fast smart global esm cdn / esm, cdn
npm Downloads: Nice tool to check how often versions of npm packages have been downloaded. / npm, stats
Rot: Future Proof Secrets Management. / secrets
huh: A simple, powerful library for forms and prompts in the terminal / cli, terminal
Screely: Upgrade screenshots / screenshots
SecureAI Tools: Private and secure AI tools for everyone’s productivity. / ai
Name Checker: Find out if your project name is taken / names
Croner: Schedule jobs in node / nodejs, crons
Nuekit: Static site generator / websites
Freepik Pikaso: AI drawing / ai
Color Lisa: Color palette masterpieces / colors
seroval: Stringify JS values / javascript
Spacetime: date/time library with a nice landing page! / javascript, date, time
AutoAnimate: Add motion to your apps with a single line of code. / animations
GitHut 2.0: A small place to discover languages in Github / languages, github
Avartion: Notion-like avatars / avatars

Why carousels don’t work: Rethinking the Carousel: A User Experience Perspective / carousel / 23 min read
The 14 Worst Fonts in the World: I like Comic Sans ;) / fonts / 1 min read
trending.design: The best design inspiration on X / trends / 1 min read
DS events: Design events summarized / events / 1 min read
Who is responsible for the impact of innovative products?: How can it be that a) all products are designed, b) designers want to create something good for the world and c) so many products are total garbage? / responsibility / 15 min read
How design works at Supabase: I always like to read such insights. / supabase / 10 min read

Learn Morse Code: Little nice website / morse / 1 min read
Procedural Planets: Implemented with three.js / javascript, three.js / 0 min read