weeklyfoo #125 is here: your weekly digest of all webdev news you need to know! This time you’ll find 28 valuable links in 3 categories! Enjoy!
🚀 Read it!
- I Intercepted 3,177 API Calls Across 4 AI Coding Tools.: Here’s What’s Actually Filling Your Context Window. by Lars de Ridder / ai, comparison / 12 min read
📰 Good to know
- Yes, Learning to Code Is Still Valuable: Every few weeks, someone shares a bold opinion: Don’t bother learning to code, AI will do it all. by Matteo Collina / ai, engineering / 7 min read
- OpenClaw, OpenAI and the future: I’m joining OpenAI to work on bringing agents to everyone. by Peter Steinberger / ai, openclaw / 3 min read
- —dangerously-skip-reading-code: I concluded my previous post saying that it was irresponsible to assume that we won’t need to worry about reading and debugging our code anymore. by Facundo Olano / ai, engineering / 4 min read
- Build something silly: Matt Shumer’s Something Big is Happening has been making the rounds this week. by Anton Sten / ai, engineering / 7 min read
- Electrobun v1: Build ultra fast, tiny, and cross-platform desktop apps with TypeScript. by Yoav / typescript, bun / 3 min read
- Introducing Claude Sonnet 4.6: Claude Sonnet 4.6 is our most capable Sonnet model yet. by Anthropic / ai, antropic, sonnet / 14 min read
- Biome v2.4: Embedded Snippets, HTML Accessibility, and Better Framework Support by Emanuele Stoppa / format, lint, biome / 22 min read
- WebMCP is available for early preview: As the agentic web evolves, we want to help websites play an active role in how AI agents interact with them. by André Cipriani Bandarra / mcp, chrome / 5 min read
- Automate repository tasks with GitHub Agentic Workflows: Discover GitHub Agentic Workflows, now in technical preview. Build automations using coding agents in GitHub Actions to handle triage, documentation, code quality, and more. by Don Syme & Peli de Halleux / ai, github, agents, cli / 22 min read
- Node.js vs Deno vs Bun Performance Benchmarks: We benchmarked Node, Deno, and Bun to see where each runtime wins by repoflow.io / nodejs, deno, bun, performance / 3 min read
- Building An Elite AI Engineering Culture In 2026: AI accelerates high-performing orgs and unravels struggling ones. by Chris Roth / ai, engineering / 15 min read
- Stop Thinking of AI as a Coworker. It’s an Exoskeleton.: We’re thinking about AI wrong. by Ben Gregory / ai, engineering / 12 min read
- Principles: A cursed fact of the world is that the most important life lessons you learn are the hardest to communicate to others. by Nabeel S. Qureshi / career / 10 min read
- Lynx 3.6: Lynx for AI, reactlynx-use, CSS for Design Engineering by Leron Liu, Guangyu Du / lynx / 6 min read
- Radix UI vs Base UI: Why Headless UI Libraries matter in modern React? by Mihir Koshti / ui / 18 min read
🧰 Tools
- klaw: kubectl for AI Agents by klaw.sh / ai, agents, cli
- Oat: Ultra-lightweight, zero dependency, semantic HTML, CSS, JS UI library. ~8KB by Kailash Nadh / framework, web
- Stop writing CSS like it’s 2015.: Modern CSS code snippets, side by side with the old hacks they replace. by Naeem Nur / css
- TanStack Hotkeys: Type-safe keyboard shortcuts, sequences, and key state tracking for your apps by TanStack / hotkeys, keyboard, shortcuts
- Peek: A lightweight JavaScript library for creating smart header behavior based on scroll intent. by Chad Pierce / javascript, scroll, header
- pg-typesafe: pg-typesafe generates TypeScript types for PostgreSQL queries. by Nicolas / typescript, postgres
- Slowmo: Slow down, pause, or speed up time of any web content. by Francois Laberge / web
- Introducing Geist Pixel: Today, we’re expanding the Geist font family with Geist Pixel. by Vercel / fonts
- React Doctor: Let coding agents diagnose and fix your React code by react.doctor / react, ai
- Convert: Truly universal online file converter by convert.to.it / convert
- gogcli: Google Suite CLI: Gmail, GCal, GDrive, GContacts. by Peter Steinberger / google, cli
- Superpowers: An agentic skills framework & software development methodology that works. by Jesse Vincent / ai, skills