weeklyfoo #88 is here: your weekly digest of all webdev news you need to know! This time you’ll find 30 valuable links in 6 categories! Enjoy!
🚀 Read it!
- What’s Working for YC Companies Since the AI Boom.: The goal of this analysis was to understand what’s working for YC companies by looking at which ones have raised Series A rounds. by Jamesin Seidel / startups / 10 min read
📰 Good to know
- No Server, No Database: Smarter Related Posts in Astro with transformers.js: Using Hugging Face’s transformers.js to create smarter related-post suggestions for my Astro blog by Alexander Opalic / astro, suggestions / 9 min read
- The Prompt Engineering Playbook for Programmers: Turn AI coding assistants into more reliable development partners by Addy Osmani / prompts, ai / 52 min read
- Vibe Coding as a software engineer: There’s a lot of talk about “vibe coding”, but is it just a vague term for prototyping, or could vibes change how we build software? by Gergely Orosz, Elin Nilsson / ai, vibe-coding / 11 min read
- From Prompt to App in Minutes: Introducing the DigitalOcean MCP Server by Amit Jotwani / mcp, digitalocean / 15 min read
- Adopting Docs-as-Code at Pinterest: Learn how Pinterest adopted Docs-as-Code. by Jacob Seiler, Jay Kim, Charlie Gu / docs, code / 14 min read
- Storybook 9: The lean, mean component testing machine by Michael Shilman / storybook, ui / 10 min read
- Deno Examples: A collection of walkthrough tutorials, examples, videos and guides to teach you about the Deno runtime and how to use it with your favorite tools. by docs.deno.com / deno, examples / 10 min read
- What a developer needs to know about SCIM: That’s System for Cross-domain Identity Management explaind. by Ned O’Leary / scim / 15 min read
- Your Manager Is Not Your Best Friend: True by staysaasy.com / leadership / 8 min read
- A JavaScript Developer’s Guide to Go: After spending five years as a JavaScript developer building both frontend and backend systems, I spent the last year transitioning to Go for server-side code. by Prateek Surana / go, javascript / 40 min read
- Write more reliable JavaScript with optional chaining: Totally agree with this one. Use more optional chaining! by Matt Smith / javascript / 5 min read
- Astro 5.9: Next minor release of Astro by astro.build / astro / 10 min read
🧰 Tools
- Puck Editor: The visual editor for React. by puckeditor.com / markdonw, react
- tldx: Domain Availability Research Tool by Brandon Young / cli, domains
- Redirector: Browser extension (Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Edge) to redirect urls based on regex patterns, like a client side mod_rewrite. by Einar Egilsson / browsers, extensions
- Kan: The open source Trello alternative. by kan.bn / knban
- BeachPatrol: A CLI tool to replace and automate your daily web browser. by Sebastian Carlos / cli, browsers
- Lingo.dev: Open-source AI-powered CLI for web & mobile localization. Bring your own LLM or use Lingo.dev localization engine. by lingo.dev / i18n, localization
- PinSend: Share text instantly and securely across all your devices by Artem Vovsia / messaging, security
- Ephe: An Ephemeral Markdown Paper for today. Less but handy features. by Hiroki Ihoriya / markdown, todos
- Glow Icons: Icons made for interfaces by glowui.com/icons / icons
- app.build: app.build creates real apps from scratch on top of the Neon platform. By default, generated apps use Neon Postgres, Neon Auth and other incoming Neon features (but you can also bring your own templates). by app.build / ai, agents
- ClickHouse: ClickHouse® is a real-time analytics database management system by clickhouse.com / analytics
- String Flux: StringFlux helps transform, format and convert string like JSON format / minify, JSON to YAML, Base64 encoding / decoding, URL encoding / decoding and more. by stringflux.io / tools
- UI.live: Share and discover top design work by ui.live / ui
🎨 Design
- How to write better prompts for AI design & code generators: Because AI design and code generators quickly take an active part in the design process, it’s essential to understand how to make the most of these tools. by Nick Babich / ai, prompts / 5 min read
🤪 Fun
- parrot.live: Bringing animated parrots to terminals everywhere by Hugo / cli, parrots / 5 min read
📚 Tutorials
- Production-Grade Logging in Node.js with Pino: A good logging system helps you troubleshoot issues, and gain insights into how your applications are behaving in production. For Node.js applications, Pino is widely recognized as one of the fastest and most efficient logging libraries available. by dash0.com / logging, nodejs / 22 min read
- CSS Spotlight Effect: Super nice effect for your next side project! by Amit Sheen / css, effects / 16 min read