weeklyfoo #89 is here: your weekly digest of all webdev news you need to know! This time you’ll find 38 valuable links in 5 categories! Enjoy!
🚀 Read it!
- It’s The End Of Observability As We Know It (And I Feel Fine): How AI is chaging how we analyze data. by Honeycomb / observability, ai / 14 min read
📰 Good to know
- Poison everywhere: No output from your MCP server is safe: Never blindly use any MCP server! by Simcha Kosman / mcp, security / 28 min read
- MCP vs API: Comparison of MCP and API by Frank Fiegel / mcp, api / 7 min read
- Field Notes From Shipping Real Code With Claude: Vibe Coding Isn’t Just a Vibe by Diwank / ai, vibe-coding / 28 min read
- Self-Host & Tech Independence: The Joy of Building Your Own: A personal journey. by Simon Späti / personal, self-hosting / 12 min read
- AI Coding Agents: Tracking the performance of the various coding agents. by Albert Avetisian / ai, performance / 1 min read
- LLMs are cheap: You get 1M tokens for cents for some LLMs. by Juho Snellman / llms, costs / 20 min read
- One Man Armies: Great list of outstanding people. by Carter Mark, Jordan Gonen / inspiration, performance / 5 min read
- Real-world engineering challenges: building Cursor: Cursor has grown 100x in load in just a year, sees 1M+ QPS for its data layer, and serves billions of code completions, daily. A deepdive into how it’s built with cofounder, Sualeh Asif by Gergely Orosz / cursor / 15 min read
- Upcoming JavaScript Features You Should Know About: Some great new features coming to JavaScript. by Max Prilutskiy / javascript, features / 34 min read
- Making eyesite: I wanted Apple Vision Pros, but I don’t have $3,500 in my back pocket. So I made Apple Vision Pros at home. by Andy Khau / eyes, javascript / 4 min read
- EU launches EU-based, privacy-focused DNS resolution service: DNS4EU, an EU-based DNS resolution service created to strengthen European Union’s digital sovereignty, has become reality. by Zeljka Zorz / dns, eu / 5 min read
- Announcing Multigres: Vitess for Postgres by Paul Copplestone / postgres, databases / 5 min read
- How to Design APIs for an AI World: A thorough analysis of how AI changes what is needed from a good API, with real-world examples + some speculations about the future. by Luca Rossi / apis, ai, design / 17 min read
- Yes, Sentry has an MCP Server (…and it’s pretty good): MCP server for your Sentry integration. by Cody De Arkland / mcp, sentry / 14 min read
- Is All Micromanagement Bad? Here’s How the Best Startup Leaders Balance Details and Delegation: Founders and execs from Apple, Rippling, Carta and more share their strategies for altitude shifting as a manager. by review.firstround.com / leadership / 29 min read
- Announcing Oxlint 1.0: The first stable version Oxlint has been released! by Boshen Chen, Cameron Clark / linters / 6 min read
- pnpm 10.12 Introduces Global Virtual Store and Expanded Version Catalogs: pnpm 10.12.1 introduces a global virtual store for faster installs and new options for managing dependencies with version catalogs. by Sarah Gooding / pnpm / 5 min read
🧰 Tools
- container: A tool for creating and running Linux containers using lightweight virtual machines on a Mac. It’s written in Swift, and optimized for Apple silicon. by Apple / containerization
- Listmonk: High performance, self-hosted, newsletter and mailing list manager with a modern dashboard. Single binary app. by Kailash Nadh / newsletters
- sapiens.website: A curated collection of unique individuals across the internet, giving everyone a chance to be seen, appreciated, and connected. by Junaid Anjum / gallery
- CoverDrop: Blowing the whistle through a news app by coverdrop.org / messaging
- Obra Icons: A simple, consistent set of icons, perfect for user interfaces. by obra.studio / icons
- Orange ORM: The ultimate ORM for Node and Typescript by orange-orm.io / orm, databases
- tz-lookup: JavaScript Library for Timezone Lookup by Location by PhotoStructure / timezone, javascript
- Fulldev UI: The Astro UI library to build content sites by ui.full.dev / astro, ui
- SmoothUI: SmoothUI is a collection of beautifully designed components with smooth animations built with React, Tailwind CSS, and Motion by Edu Calvo / ui, tailwind, motion, react
- Spark: An advanced 3D Gaussian Splatting renderer for THREE.js by sparkjs.dev / 3d, threejs
- Somo: A human-friendly alternative to netstat for socket and port monitoring on Linux. by Theodor Peifer / linux, monitoring
- Line Numbers: A web component to add line numbers next to various HTML elements by Zach Leatherman / tools
- Chatterbox: SoTA open-source TTS by Resemble AI / tts, speech, ai
- ICONIC: A developer-oriented library of sleek, bubble-shaped skill icons designed for GitHub READMEs, portfolios, and resumes. by Yuhesh Pandian P J / icons
🤪 Fun
- Locked: Crack the code before your opponent. Two players. Four digits. One winner. Enter the real-time code-breaking battle. by Andres Felipe Alarcon / games / 2 min read
- DeskHog: DeskHog is an open-source, 3D printed, palm-sized slice of developer joy by PostHog / posthog / 6 min read
📚 Tutorials
- Mastra Course: Learn how to build agents by mastra.ai / mastra, ai, agents / 3 min read
- 3D Cube With CSS: This is not only a great tutorial, but also a great article! by Julia Miocene / 3d, css / 5 min read
- Scroll-Driven Letter Grid: Nice effect! by Chris Coyier / css, scrolling / 4 min read
- Printing the web: Making webpages look good on paper by Declan Chidlow / printing / 16 min read