weeklyfoo #93 is here: your weekly digest of all webdev news you need to know! This time you’ll find 39 valuable links in 6 categories! Enjoy!
🚀 Read it!
- Local-first software: You own your data, in spite of the cloud by Martin Kleppmann, Adam Wiggins, Peter van Hardenberg, and Mark McGranaghan. / local-first / 64 min read
📰 Good to know
- You’re all CTO now: Everyone is a manager of AI-coding agents now which brings some benefits and some downsides. by Jamie Lawrence / engineering / 7 min read
- How has AI impacted engineering leadership in 2025?: Findings from the 2025 LeadDev Engineering Leadership Report show that leadership practices are evolving even as early productivity gains are modest. by Lizzie Matusov / leadership / 5 min read
- Am I online?: A way to provide a simple url to check if the website is up. by Anton Zhiyanov / monitoring / 3 min read
- SVGs that feel like GIFs: It’s similar to a GIF but instead of showing moving images, it shows moving SVGs! by Vincent D. Warmerdam / svgs / 2 min read
- Gemini Nano in Chrome 137: notes for AI Engineers by swyx.io / ai, chrome / 8 min read
- Using AI Without Leaving the Terminal: A Guide to llm by Ashwin / ai, terminal / 7 min read
- We studied 100 dev tool landing pages: Here’s what really works in 2025 by Anton Lovchikov, Travis Turner / landing-pages / 21 min read
- Announcing FOKS, the Federated Open Key Service: FOKS is like Keybase, but fully open-source and federated, with SSO and YubiKey support. by FOKS / federated, open-source, sso, yubikey / 5 min read
- Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY does not scale: When a NOTIFY query is issued during a transaction, it acquires a global lock on the entire database (ref) during the commit phase of the transaction, effectively serializing all commits. Under many concurrent writers, this results in immense load and major downtime. by Elliot Levin / postgres / 11 min read
- SEO Is Dead. Long Live GEO.: How to win in the era of LLMs, AI Overviews, and GEO — before your traffic disappears by Gaurav Vohra / seo, geo, marketing, ai / 9 min read
- 5 things I learned from 5 years at Vercel: After five years at Vercel, I just finished my last week. What a ride! by Lee Robinson / vercel, career / 11 min read
- Modern JavaScript in NGINX: QuickJS Engine Support for njs by Dmitry Volyntsev / nginx, javascript / 11 min read
🧰 Tools
- Backlog.md: A tool for managing project collaboration between humans and AI Agents in a git ecosystem by Alex Gavrilescu / tasks, projects
- OpenCode: AI coding agent, built for the terminal. by opencode.ai / ai, agent
- OmniTools: Self-hosted collection of powerful web-based tools for everyday tasks. No ads, no tracking, just fast, accessible utilities right from your browser! by Ibrahima G. Coulibaly / tools
- asciiflow: ASCIIFlow is a client-side only web based application for drawing ASCII diagrams. by Lewis Hemens / ascii
- BNA UI: Expo, React Native components library by Ahmed Abdelsamea / ui, react-native
- jsonrepair: Repair invalid JSON documents by Jos de Jong / json
- grammY: grammY is a Telegram Bot Framework for TypeScript and JavaScript. by grammy.dev / telegram, bot, framework
- 0x: single-command flamegraph profiling by David Mark Clements / performance
- Lynx: Empower the web community and invite more to build across platforms by lynxjs.org / framework
- Monorail: Turn any CSS keyframe animation into an interactive graph by Stanko / css, animations
- Vecto3d: A super simple tool to convert your SVG’s to 3D models. by Lakshay Bhushan / svg, 3d
- URLtoAny: All the URL conversion tools at your fingertips. 100% FREE and easy to use! Convert URLs to Markdown, PDF, Text, images and more with just a few clicks. by urltoany.com / url
- mcp-b: Model Context Protocol for the Browser by mcp-b.ai / mcp
- TSTyche: Everything You Need for Type Testing. by tstyche.org / typescript, types, tests
- Ikiform: An open-source alternative to Google Forms, designed to help you create beautiful forms effortlessly. by preet / forms
- Pangolin: Tunneled Reverse Proxy Server with Identity and Access Control and Dashboard UI by fossorial.io / proxy
- Cactus: Cross-platform framework for deploying LLM/VLM/TTS models locally on smartphones. by cactuscompute.com / llms, mobile
- Flux Kontext Dev Online Tool: Experience the power of AI-driven image editing instantly. Upload your image, describe your changes, and watch flux kontext dev transform your vision into reality. by fluxkontextlab.com / ai, flux, images
- BrowserOS: BrowserOS is an open-source agentic web browser. by browseros.com / ai, browsers
- cRonstrue: JavaScript library that translates Cron expressions into human readable descriptions by Brady Holt / cron, parsing
- zshy: Bundler-free build tool for TypeScript libraries. Powered by tsc. by Colin McDonnell / typescript
🎨 Design
- Trustnomics: How trust became the new currency of brand growth by Rei Inamoto / trust / 6 min read
📚 Tutorials
- The Gooey Effect: Gooey Menu Using CSS and SVG Filters by Lucas Bebber / css, svgs / 12 min read
📺 Videos
- Build your first MCP Server: Tutorial for Beginners by Debbie O’Brien / mcp
- Why Is Everyone Talking About Lynx? The Architect’s Breakdown: Lynx, a new cross-platform stack adopted by the TikTok app that empowers teams to ship truly native UIs to mobile and web from a single codebase using their existing web skills like CSS and React, has recently been open sourced. by Xuan Huang / lynx, framework, open-source
- Building Faster with AI: Why execution speed matters more than ever, how agentic workflows are changing what startups can build, and why concreteness beats vagueness when turning ideas into products. by Andrew Ng / ai