Stay ahead in web development: latest news, tools, and insights #40

weeklyfoo #40 is here: your weekly digest of all webdev news you need to know! This time you'll find 47 valuable links in 8 categories! Enjoy!

🚀 Read it!

• Numbers To Know For Managing (Software Teams): This is a collection of very true topics, written in a very entertaining way. / management / 8 min read

📰 Good to know

• window.ai - running AI LOCALLY from DevTools!: This will go wild as soon as available for all. / ai, chrome / 14 min read
• A Git story - Not so fun this time: Rise of Git (and GitHub) / git / 34 min read
• Serving a billion web requests with boring code: This is the way to go. All the boring tech is the foundation of all the robust software. / engineering / 16 min read
• Top paying technologies: Zig is the highest-paid language to know this year (a new addition), while Clojure gets knocked from the top spot with a 10% decrease from 2022. / survey, salaries / 132 min read
• Lessons From 20 Years Hacking MySQL (Part 1): Very entertaining! / engineering / 20 min read
• My programming beliefs as of July 2024: This is a collection of things I believe about computer programming as of today. It’s based on my own experience. / engineering / 7 min read
• Web Performance Guide: Here's everything you need to know to master website monitoring, analytics, and diagnostics. / performance / 4 min read
• The many faces of undefined in JavaScript: There are too many ways to represent unknown or missing data and this can lead to defects. / javascript / 13 min read
• Cloudflare debuts one-click nuke of web-scraping AI: Take that for ignoring robots.txt! / cloudflare, bots / 13 min read
• Your Company's Problem is Hiding in Plain Sight - High Work-In-Progress (WIP): You Need Lazy People to Have Restless Features / performance / 10 min read
• How to Annul Promises in JavaScript: Creating Cancelable Tasks in JavaScript with Promise.withResolvers and AbortController / javascript, promises / 5 min read
• TypeScript 5.5 - A Blockbuster Release: Lots of new features in the next minor release / typescript / 10 min read
• You’re Closer Than You Think - The Only 6 DNS Concepts You Really Need: DNS explained. / dns / 11 min read
• The saddest Just Ship It story ever: IndieHacker story about benji! / indie / 7 min read
• Eponymous Laws: Some observations that might ring true / engineering / 7 min read

🧰 Tools

• Pikimov: Online motion design and video editor / video
• Docmost: Docmost is an open source collaborative documentation and wiki software. It is an open-source alternative to the likes of Confluence and Notions. / docs, collaboration
• Solid Toast: Create beautiful, customizable toasts with Solid JS / notifications, toast
• doggo: Command-line DNS Client for Humans. Written in Golang / cli
• squirrelly: Semi-embedded JS template engine that supports helpers, filters, partials, and template inheritance. 4KB minzipped, written in TypeScript / templating
• fast-json-stringify: 2x faster than JSON.stringify() / stringify, json
• Mako: An extremely fast, production-grade web bundler based on Rust. / bundler
• SmoothMQ: A drop-in replacement for SQS designed for great developer experience and efficiency. / queues, sqs
• Changesets: A way to manage your versioning and changelogs with a focus on monorepos / changelog
• Search HackerNews: A search engine for HackerNews / search
• React Ace: A set of react components for Ace (Editor) / react
• lets form: A JSON form generator for React with Material UI / AntDesign / Bootstrap / RSuite / Mantine / react, forms
• H5Web: React components for data visualization and exploration / visualization
• GridStack: Build interactive dashboards in minutes. / grids, dashboards
• Flitter: Flitter is a powerful framework inspired by Flutter, supporting both SVG and Canvas to create high-performance graphics and user interfaces. / visualizations
• MSHR: A collection of 208 vanilla CSS mesh gradients free for you to use in any of your projects. / css, gradients
• json.bash: Command-line tool and bash library that creates JSON / json
• bwip-js: Barcode Writer in Pure JavaScript / barcode
• Superstruct: A simple and composable way to validate data in JavaScript (and TypeScript). / validation
• Termino.js: Create a web based terminal on any website - great for games, animations and real world apps! / terminal
• 0xtools: X-Ray vision for Linux systems / cli, performance

🎨 Design

• The country where design is dominated by women: Unlike in most parts of the world, Iceland's design scene is overwhelmingly female. / equality / 17 min read
• The time for designers to learn to code is now: With design tools further commoditising and sanitising expected creative output, the time for designers to be able to stand out is very much here. / coding / 8 min read

🤪 Fun

• 535 ways to reload the page with JavaScript: Javascript is such a joy / javascript / 1 min read
• sliderland: a minimalist coding playground / sliders / 1 min read

🤣 Meme

• yaml: this explains a lot of things / yaml / 0 min read

📚 Tutorials

• Profiling Node.js Applications: Learn how to profile your node app. / performance / 21 min read
• How to Perform Data Validation in Node.js: By using the express validation middleware. / validation / 18 min read
• CSS Surprise Manga Lines: When a manga or anime character is surprised, lines focus on and highlight their face. Is it possible to create a similar effect with HTML and CSS? / css / 4 min read
• Practical Deep Learning for Coders: A free course designed for people with some coding experience, who want to learn how to apply deep learning and machine learning to practical problems. / ai / 12 min read

📺 Videos

• How Vercel Works: With Malte Ubl, we deep dived into how Vercel works as a team, what could developer experience look like, and the future of AI-enabled applications. / vercel

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