weeklyfoo #44 is here: your weekly digest of all webdev news you need to know! This time you’ll find 31 valuable links in 5 categories! Enjoy!
🚀 Read it!
- How to save $13.27 on your sAAs bill: Building your own analytics tool. But the exciting part is how entertaining this story is written! / analytics / 22 min read
📰 Good to know
- Running One-man SaaS, 9 Years In: Healthchecks.io launched in July 2015, which means this year we turn 9. Time flies! / saas, startups / 4 min read
- Why Unknown Types Are Useful: When external data enters your program, you can’t really be certain of its type unless you validate it. / validation / 3 min read
- Categories of leadership on technical teams: Overview of leadership categories in the wild. / leadership / 13 min read
- What we got wrong about HTTP imports: Describes what’s wrong with http imports and how jsr can fix this. / deno, jsr / 9 min read
- Patterns for Memory Efficient DOM Manipulation with Modern Vanilla JavaScript: I’ll discuss best practices to avoid excess memory usage when managing updating the DOM to make your apps blazingly fast. / performance / 15 min read
- List of Chromium Command Line Switches: There are lots of command lines which can be used with the Google Chrome browser. Some change behavior of features, others are for debugging or experimenting. This page lists the available switches including their conditions and descriptions. / chrome / 164 min read
- How I Computer in 2024: All the secrets from Jon Seager / personal-setup / 15 min read
- Why CSV is still king: csv my good old friend. / csv / 4 min read
- Managing Underperformers: Kind managers address underperformance early and accurately. / leadership / 10 min read
- Advice to the young: The first one already hooked me - It is called foundations, not theory. / engineering / 18 min read
🧰 Tools
- AI Notes: notes for software engineers getting up to speed on new AI developments / ai
- Landingfolio: The Best Landing Page Design Inspiration, Templates and More. / templates
- gg: The software architecture simulator / simulator
- moshimosh: A hybrid TypeScript Node package creator / template
- terminal-image: Display images in the terminal / terminal, nodejs
- SSOReady: Open-source dev tools for enterprise SSO. Ship SAML support this afternoon. / sso, auth
- Rendley: JavaScript Video Editing in the Browser / video
- Porffor: A from-scratch experimental AOT JS engine, written in JS / wasm
- Sendune HTML Email Designer: Drag and drop HTML email designer - truly free and open source. / emails, ses
- react-movable: Drag and drop for your React lists and tables. Accessible. Tiny. / dnd
- Vaul: An unstyled drawer component for React. / drawer, react
- Plunk: The Open-Source Email Platform / emails
- Dice: A drop-in replacement of Redis with SQL-based realtime reactivity. / redis
- Embedding.io: Crawl, chunk, and vectorize any websites so you can use their content with LLMs. / ai, llm
- Free Fonts: A selection of complimentary typography for your web projects. Best free fonts for designers. / fonts
- json-to-csv-export: A function to easily generate csv downloads of your json data / json, csv
- Neat CSS: Rapidly build efficient sites with Neat, the minimalist css framework. / css
- Sniffet: Application to comfortably monitor your Internet traffic / monitoring
📚 Tutorials
- Practical SVG: Detailed introduction into SVGs / svgs / 2 min read
📺 Videos
- What’s new in React 19: React Conf 2024 / react