urban weekly #119

where good ideas come from (for coding agents) - and the part where users have to level up ideas, ai 🔥

A first look at the Web Install API - Basically still PWAs (Progressive Web Apps) except you can offer a button-click to install them. web, pwa

The Next Two Years of Software Engineering - The software industry sits at a strange inflection point. engineering, ai 🔥

Databases in 2025 - A Year in Review databases

2025 JavaScript Rising Stars - Welcome to the 10th edition of JavaScript Rising Stars! javascript 🔥

Fixing TypeScript Performance Problems - A Case Study typescript 🔥

Don’t Outsource Your Thinking - and other observations on Code Generation Tools ai, engineering

Why Most Websites Don’t Actually Need Cookie Consent Banners - Most small business websites don't actually need those annoying cookie consent banners that interrupt the user experience. consent

4 CSS Features Every Front-End Developer Should Know In 2026 - This is only some of the CSS that shipped in 2025 you need to know. css 🔥

State of HTML 2025 - If you want to get an idea of how capable the web platform has gotten over the past few years, look no further than the list of categories covered in this survey. html, survey

The 8 trends that will define web development in 2026 - AI to improved security ai, engineering

npm to Implement Staged Publishing After Turbulent Shift Off Classic Tokens - The planned feature introduces a review step before releases go live, following the Shai-Hulud attacks and a rocky migration off classic tokens that disrupted maintainer workflows. npm, publishing

The 1000 commits problem - Claude Code’s latest release included 1,096 commits. And yesterday, one of those commits broke the entire CLI. anthropic 🔥

AI is a business model stress test - The story circulating is that AI is killing Open Source businesses. I don't think that is quite right. ai, business 🔥

You are absolutely right!? - 2025 will be looked back on as the most transformative time in software engineering. ai

When AI writes almost all code, what happens to software engineering? - No longer a hypothetical question, this is a mega-trend set to hit the tech industry ai, engineering 🔥

taws - A terminal-based AWS resource viewer and manager tools, aws

Awesome Agentic Patterns - A curated catalogue of awesome agentic AI patterns ai, directory 🔥

Its Hover - Icons that move with intent icons

Markwhen - Make a cascading timeline from markdown-like text. Supports simple American/European date styles, ISO8601, images, links, locations, and more. markdown, editor 🔥

Dexter - An autonomous agent for deep financial research ai, finance

oyo - A different viewer diffs

repogrep - Repogrep is an AI coding agent that can search across any public GitHub repository ai, search, github 🔥

Mantic - A structural code search engine for Al agents. ai, search

Prism.Tools - Every Dev Tool You Need tools

Design Tokens Visualizer - Explore and understand the relationships between design tokens and components across your design system design, tokens

Markdown UI - An open standard for rendering interactive widgets in plain Markdown. markdown

color-input - a modern color picker for the web with support for all spaces colors

Tool UI - Beautiful UI components for AI tool calls ui 🔥

Noi - Less chaos. More flow. ai

Motion Folios - Step inside the portfolios of the world’s finest motion designers, explore their craft, and find the spark that shapes your next big idea. gallery

npmgraph - Explore npm modules and dependencies npm

node-html-parser - A very fast HTML parser, generating a simplified DOM, with basic element query support. html

Flux - An open-source CLI for deploying LangChain agents to iMessage in seconds. ai, iMessage

The Package Management Landscape - A directory of tools, libraries, registries, and standards across package management. package-management

10 UX design shifts you can’t ignore in 2026 - Another year, another wave of “What to expect in 2026” guides. I’m sure you’ve already scrolled through a few. trends

Scroll percent - Scrolling is a fundamental UI interaction on a webpage, on any device. javascript, scrolling