weeklyfoo #123 is here: your weekly digest of all webdev news you need to know! This time you’ll find 31 valuable links in 5 categories! Enjoy!
🚀 Read it!
- My AI Adoption Journey: My experience adopting any meaningful tool is that I’ve necessarily gone through three phases: (1) a period of inefficiency (2) a period of adequacy, then finally (3) a period of workflow and life-altering discovery. by Mitchell Hashimoto / ai, adoption / 13 min read
📰 Good to know
- Moltbook is the most interesting place on the internet right now: The hottest project in AI right now is Clawdbot, renamed to Moltbot, renamed to OpenClaw. by Simon Willison / ai, openclaw / 8 min read
- Introducing OpenClaw: Two months ago, I hacked together a weekend project. by Peter Steinberger / ai, openclaw / 3 min read
- AI is finally learning to shut up: One-click actions, ambient context, and a framework for deciding when AI should talk and when it shouldn’t. by Imran / ai / 1 min read
- The Future of the Software Engineering Career: If you’re a student, a career changer, or someone advising young people on their path into tech, this post is for you. by Matteo Collina / engineering, career / 7 min read
- Things I’ve learned in my 10 years as an engineering manager: Non-obvious advice that I wish I learned sooner. by Jampa Uchoa / engineering, leadership / 13 min read
- How 10 tech companies choose the next generation of dev tools: Tech businesses from seed-stage startups to publicly-listed companies reveal how they select and roll out next-generation IDEs, CLIs and code review tools. by Gergely Orosz / ai, tools / 15 min read
- Subagents: When and How to Use Them by Alice Moore / ai, agents / 15 min read
- Agentic Engineering: A year ago, Andrej Karpathy coined “vibe coding” to describe a gleefully reckless way of programming. by Addy Osmani / ai, engineering / 8 min read
- Building Voltra: Renderer by Szymon Chmal / react-native / 12 min read
- Migrate from Chalk to Node.js util styleText: This codemod aims to help you reduce external dependencies by transforming chalk method calls to use the native Node.js styling functionality. by Richie McColl / nodejs / 3 min read
- Anthropic releases Opus 4.6 with new agent teams: On Thursday, Anthropic released the latest version of Opus — its most advanced model and a particularly important model for Claude Code. by Anthropic / ai, agents / 5 min read
- Introducing GPT-5.3-Codex: Expanding Codex across the full spectrum of professional work on a computer. by OpenAI / ai, codex / 1 min read
- Orchestrate teams of Claude Code sessions: Coordinate multiple Claude Code instances working together as a team, with shared tasks, inter-agent messaging, and centralized management. by Claude Code / ai, agents / 18 min read
- Company as Code: Reimagining organisational structure for the digital age. by 42Futures / company, code / 13 min read
- On Recursive Self-Improvement (Part I): Thoughts on the automation of AI research by Dean W. Ball / ai, automation / 15 min read
- The logo soup problem (and how to solve it): A deep dive into the math behind making mismatched brand logos actually look good together. And a tiny React library that does it for you. by Rostislav Melkumyan / react / 16 min read
🧰 Tools
- AgentMail: AgentMail is the email inbox API for AI agents. It gives agents their own email inboxes, like Gmail does for humans. by agentmail.to / ai, emails
- Minimal: Minimal CVE Hardened container image collection by Ritvik Arya / container
- Shorlabs: Vercel for Backend by Aryan Kashyap / backend, hosting
- Moltworker: OpenClaw on Cloudflare Workers by Cloudflare / ai, openclaw
- Prek: Better “pre-commit”, re-engineered in Rust by Jo / pipeline, rust
- fluid.sh: Claude Code for Infrastructure by Collin Pfeifer / ai
- Maestro: Agent Orchestration Command Center by Pedram Amini / ai
- DayFlow: A lightweight and elegant React full calendar(or React-big-calendar) component for the web, easily integrated with shadcn-ui or any Tailwind-based UI library by dayflow-js.github.io / calendar, react, tailwind
- Buttony UI: Minimalist buttons with eye-catching effects for your next project. by Jhojan García / ui, buttons
- npmx: a fast, modern browser for the npm registry by npmx.dev / npm, browser
🎨 Design
- The Too Early Breakpoint: An opinion on why we shouldn’t switch to the smallest design too early. by Ahmad Shadeed / responsive, layout / 5 min read
📚 Tutorials
- CSS Holographic Masks: Experimenting with some CSS holographic effects, inspired by this guide from Robb Owen by Christian Alder / css, holographic / 1 min read
- No-Hassle Visual Studio Code Theming: Building an Extension by Zell Liew / vscode, extension / 12 min read
- Performance-Optimized Video Embeds with Zero JavaScript: Every embedded video comes with a real cost to page load performance. by Stefan Bauer / embeds, videos / 9 min read