weeklyfoo #91 is here: your weekly digest of all webdev news you need to know! This time you’ll find 29 valuable links in 5 categories! Enjoy!
🚀 Read it!
- Programming as Theory Building: Why Senior Developers Are More Valuable Than Ever by Christian Ekrem / engineering, ai / 7 min read
📰 Good to know
- P-Hacking in Startups: When agile experimentation at startups becomes a p-hacking trap by Thaís Steinmuller / experiments, startups / 8 min read
- Everything I know about good system design: State management, databases, … by Sean Goedecke / engineering / 21 min read
- Zero is Not Local-First. It’s Better.: If you’ve used local-first libraries before, you’ll know the pitch. by Jenna Smith / local-first / 9 min read
- How to Vibe Code as a Senior Engineer: Over the past few months, I’ve rediscovered my love for building software. by Alex MacCaw / ai, vibe-coding / 9 min read
- Career advice, or something like it: Cynicism is bad. by Marc Brooker / career / 4 min read
- levered beta is all you need: how to win by riding waves you didn’t make. by textql.notion.site / ai / 0 min read
- Worker Threads in Node.js: A Complete Guide for Multithreading in JavaScript by Lizz Parody / nodejs, multithreading / 16 min read
- SVGO 4.0.0: Major release of SVGO. by Seth Falco / svgs / 13 min read
- Hono 4.8.0: Minor release of Hono. by Yusuke Wada / hono / 12 min read
- Cloudflare Containers are here.: Watch our container platform open beta launch event! Learn about the platform, see demos, explore the road map, and get your questions answered. by Mike Nomitch / cloudflare / 0 min read
- Feedback Is Not an Attack: Feedback isn’t just critique. It’s care. by Ashley Willis / feedback, engineering / 21 min read
- React Re-Renders: What triggers React re-renders? by Serhii Shramko / react / 6 min read
- Vite 7.0 is out!: Next major version of Vite by vite.dev / vite / 7 min read
- I Deleted My Second Brain: Why I Erased 10,000 Notes, 7 Years of Ideas, and Every Thought I Tried to Save by Joan Westenberg / second-brain, productivity / 8 min read
🧰 Tools
- Delta Chat: Delta Chat is a decentralized and secure messenger app by delta.chat / messaging
- Claude Code for VSCode: Claude Code seamlessly integrates with popular Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) to enhance your coding workflow. This integration allows you to leverage Claude’s capabilities directly within your preferred development environment. by Anthropic / ai, vscode, claude
- Compare: Compare is a free and open-source compensation comparison tool for job offers in the tech industry. by Devon Peroutky / career, compensation
- Pickaxe: A Typescript library for building AI agents that scale by Gabe Ruttner / ai, agents
- VSCan: Proactively analyze Visual Studio Code extensions for security vulnerabilities and ensure a safer development environment. by vscan.dev / security, vscode
- Intl-T: A Fully-Typed Object-Based i18n Translation Library. by Iván Andrés Vargas / i18n
- syntax-highlight element: Syntax Highlighting using the CSS Custom Highlight API by André Ruffert / syntax-highlighting, css
- Alchemy: Alchemy is an embeddable, TypeScript-native Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) library for modeling Resources that are Created, Updated and Deleted automatically. It’s like Terraform, but in pure TypeScript. by Sam Goodwin / iac, typescript
- Apptainer: Application containers for Linux by apptainer.org / containers, linux
- Magnitude: Magnitude uses vision AI to enable you to control your browser with natural language by magnitude.run / ai, agents
- AI Dataset Generator: Create realistic datasets for demos, learning, and dashboards by Metabase / ai, datasets
📚 Tutorials
- Build your first iOS app on Linux / Windows: Once you’ve completed Installation (Linux/Windows), use xtool to build and deploy an iOS app from your Linux/Windows machine. by xtool.sh / ios, linux / 1 min read
- A guide to Scroll-driven Animations with just CSS: CSS animations have come a long way since Apple first introduced them to the web in 2007. What started as simple effects like animating from one color to another has turned into beautiful, complex images twisting and flying across the page. by Saron Yitbarek / css, animations / 12 min read
📺 Videos
- Software Is Changing (Again): AI Startup School in San Francisco by Andrej Karpathy / ai