weeklyfoo #101 is here: your weekly digest of all webdev news you need to know! This time you’ll find 29 valuable links in 6 categories! Enjoy!
🚀 Read it!
- First attempt will be 95% garbage: A staff engineer’s 6-week journey with Claude Code by Vincent Quigley / ai, engineering / 11 min read
📰 Good to know
- Vibe Coding Terminal Editor: I wrote a small tool for myself as my biannual routine check of where llms are currently at. by Alex Kladov / ai / 8 min read
- Terminal sessions you can bookmark: Building Zellij’s web client by Aram Drevekenin / zellij, terminal, browser / 13 min read
- Vibe Shift? Senior Developers Ship nearly 2.5x more AI Code than Junior Counterparts: Fastly’s July 2025 survey of 791 developers found a notable difference in how much AI-generated code is making it into production. by Alina Lehtinen-Vela / ai, survey / 6 min read
- Don’t Build Multi-Agents: Frameworks for LLM Agents have been surprisingly disappointing. I want to offer some principles for building agents based on our own trial & error, and explain why some tempting ideas are actually quite bad in practice. by Walden Yan / ai, agents / 10 min read
- Thoughts on (Amazonian) Leadership: Amazon’s Leadership Principles are famous, not just within Amazon but also in the tech world at large. by Colin Percival / leadership, amazon / 9 min read
- The unexpected productivity boost of Rust: Lubeno’s backend is 100% Rust code, and it has grown to a size where it’s impossible for me to keep all parts of the codebase in my head at the same time. by Bernard Kolobara / rust, productivity / 0 min read
- Say bye with JavaScript Beacon: Sometimes we want to send a piece of data to our servers when user leaves our website or webapp. by HemathKumar R / javascript, beacon / 3 min read
- CSS Elevator: A Pure CSS State Machine With Floor Navigation by Christian Sabourin / css, state / 8 min read
- Fresh 2.0 Graduates to Beta: Adds Vite Support by Marvin Hagemeister / deno, framework, vite / 5 min read
- Promises From The Ground Up: There are a lot of speed bumps and potholes on the road to JavaScript proficiency. One of the biggest and most daunting is Promises. by Josh W. Comeau / javascript, promises / 22 min read
- Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed: You asked for it. A lot. by Morgan Krey / zed, claude / 8 min read
- 101+ gen AI use cases with technical blueprints: 101 architectural blueprints by Richard Seroter, Andrea Sanin / google, ai, use-cases / 82 min read
- kruci: Post-mortem of a UI library by Patryk Wychowaniec / post-mortem, ui / 23 min read
- Accurate text lengths with Intl.Segmenter API: Think about unicode values. by Sangeeth Sudheer / javascript, unicode / 7 min read
🧰 Tools
- Zellij: A terminal workspace with batteries included by zellij.dev / terminal
- Ripple: the elegant TypeScript UI framework by Dominic Gannaway / framework, ui
- 500 AI Agents Projects: The 500 AI Agents Projects is a curated collection of AI agent use cases across various industries. by Ashish Patel / ai, agents
- System Prompts Leaks: Collection of extracted System Prompts from popular chatbots like ChatGPT, Claude & Gemini by Ásgeir Thor Johnson / ai, prompts
- Termix: Termix is a web-based server management platform with SSH terminal, tunneling, and file editing capabilities. by LukeGus / server, ssh
- Hopp: Open Source pair programming app by gethopp.app / oss, pair-programming
- react-window: React components for efficiently rendering large lists and tabular data by Brian Vaughn / react, lists, ui
- EmbedPDF: A PDF viewer that seamlessly integrates with any JavaScript project by embedpdf.com / pdf, javascript
- Regex Utils: TypeScript library for regex equivalence, intersection, complement and other utilities that go beyond string matching. by Niklas Gruhn / typescript, regex
- Terragon: The easiest way to run AI agents in the cloud by Bersabel, Michael, Sawyer / ai, agents
- Mediabunny: Pure TypeScript media toolkit for reading, writing, and converting video and audio files, directly in the browser. by David P. / media, typescript
🤪 Fun
- Where is the sloth?: No further comment needed. by Michael Ryczkowski / fun / 1 min read
📚 Tutorials
- Building React Apps with Bun: A Modern Development Experience by Peter Mbanugo / bun, react / 10 min read
📺 Videos
- You don’t need Elasticsearch!: Fuzzy Search with PostgreSQL and Spring Data by Thomas Gräfenstein / postgres, elastic