weeklyfoo #45 is here: your weekly digest of all webdev news you need to know! This time you’ll find 25 valuable links in 6 categories! Enjoy!
🚀 Read it!
- How to be more concise: The truth about why it’s so hard to be concise, and 9 tactics I use to tighten my communication by Wes Kao / productivity / 16 min read
📰 Good to know
- We ran out of columns - The best, worst codebase: Oh the merchants2 table? Yeah, we ran out of columns on merchants, so we made merchants2 xD by Jimmy Miller / engineering / 11 min read
- HONC Out Loud: The Modern Guide to Building a Typescript JSON API by Nele Lea / hono, drizzle, cloudflare, neon / 10 min read
- I made a huge mistake in becoming a Engineering Manager: Read about experiences of becoming a manager and switching back to an IC role. by r/ExperiencedDev / career / 1 min read
- Ecosystem Performance: e18e (Ecosystem Performance) is an initiative to connect the folks and projects working to improve JS packages performance. by e18e.dev / ecosystem, javascript / 1 min read
- Modern Git Commands and Features You Should Be Using: Didn’t know about sparse checkout for example. by Martin Heinz / git / 7 min read
🧰 Tools
- sqlite-vec: A vector search SQLite extension that runs anywhere! by Alex Garcia / databases
- arrival-time: Simple and powerful progress time estimation (ETA) for JavaScript by Robert Vitonsky / utils
- iso20022.js: A package to create and manage ISO20022 XML files to create and receive payments. by Svapnil Ankolkar / iso
- follow: Next generation information browser by RSSNext / rss
- easy-template-x: Generate docx documents from templates, in Node or in the browser. by alonrbar / docx
- Fair Source: Software sharing for modern businesses. Engage the developer community with your core products. by fair.io / source-control
- Whirl: CSS loading animations with minimal effort! by Jhey Tompkins / css, loading
- Pigsty: Battery-Included PostgreSQL Distro as a Free RDS Alternative by Feng Ruohang / databases
- CSS Editor: Online editor to play around with CSS. by getbutterfly.com / css
- Spectrum: Free vector shapes by spectrums.framer.website / vector, shapes
- Pines UI Library: Pines is a library of animations, sliders, tooltips, accordions, modals, and more! It’s a set of UI elements that can be copy and pasted into any Alpine and Tailwind projects. by DevDojo / ui
- tschema: A tiny (444b) utility to build JSON schema types. by Luke Edwards / typescript, json
- CSS Spring Easing Generator: Playground to generate spring easing. by Kevin Grajeda / css
- Orbit: The CSS radial UI composer framework by Zumer Lab / css
- Public Work: Public Work is a search engine for public domain content. Explore 100,000+ copyright-free images from The MET, New York Public Library, and other sources. by public.work / images
🎨 Design
- Desigeist: Daily design gems curated by Pablo Stanley by desigeist.com / gems / 1 min read
- Admire The Web: Daily web design inspiration from around the web specialising in minimal, clean and responsive websites. by admiretheweb.com / inspiration / 3 min read
🤪 Fun
- WhenFS: A FUSE filesystem for your Google calendar. There could also be some serious use cases for this. by Lukas / storage / 6 min read
📚 Tutorials
- using your Kindle as an e-ink monitor: There are so many opportunities with that approach. by Adhityaa Chandrasekar / kindle / 5 min read