urban weekly #79

React 19.1.0 - Introduction of Owner Stack! react hot

Is Vite faster than Turbopack? - tldr: it depends ;) vite, turbopack

Talking To Your Mailserver Is Not as Hard as You Think! - Learning how the IMAP protocol actually works imap

The manager I hated and the lesson he taught me - How a tough manager changed my approach to leadership (and why I’m grateful now) leadership, engineering

How to work in tech when your job isn't safe - Stop doing unpaid work & work like mad on crucial projects, then rest engineering

[email protected]: Now the Default on npm with LTS Timeline - It's happening! express

5 GitHub Actions every maintainer needs to know - With these actions, you can keep your open source projects organized, minimize repetitive and manual tasks, and focus more on writing code. github, ci

Making Makefiles for fun and profit - Make is a 48-year-old build automation tool that's still incredibly useful today. This post explains how Makefiles work, why they're awesome despite their cryptic syntax, and shows practical examples for modern development workflows. make hot

The WebAIM Million - The 2025 report on the accessibility of the top 1,000,000 home pages a11y, report

The Pragmatic Open Source Contributor - A cookbook to contribute to open source software. oss

Stacked PRs: Code Changes as Narrative - Stacked PRs work so well because they allow developers to construct a narrative with their PRs prs, engineering

The 13 software engineering laws - Hyrum's law, Conway’s law, Zawinski's law, and 10 others. engineering

Why I stopped using AI code editors - I chose to make using AI a manual action, because I felt the slow loss of competence over time when I relied on it, and I recommend everyone to be cautious with making AI a key part of their workflow. ai

React Email 4.0 - A completely new set of tools to help you build better emails. emails

Minimal CSS-only blurry image placeholders - Here’s a CSS technique that produces blurry image placeholders (LQIPs) without cluttering up your markup — Only a single custom property needed! css hot

Astro 5.6 - Astro 5.6 brings first-class astro:env and experimental session support to Cloudflare, and gives more control over prefetching. astro

xan - The CSV magician csv hot

SVGFM - A node graph builder for SVG filters svg

TailwindFlex - Tailwind CSS Components Library tailwind hot

Illustrations SaaS UI - 220+ Illustrations for Your Design Systems and Docs illustrations

Web SVG - Web SVG Images: Everything you need for your digital craft & design projects. Find free SVG icons, SVG animations, and SVG tutorials to get you going. svgs

Flexile - Payroll & equity for everyone. equity, payroll

svggles - Interactive illustrations made easy svgs

Bare - Actually Run Javascript Everywhere javascript

Mermaid Chart VS Code Plugin - Create and Edit Mermaid.js Diagrams in Visual Studio Code diagrams

Codename Goose - Your on-machine AI agent, automating engineering tasks seamlessly. ai, llm, mcp

GenAI - Programmatically assemble prompts for LLMs using JavaScript. Orchestrate LLMs, tools, and data in a single script. ai, llm, vscode hot

Watt - Watt, Platformatic's Node.js application server, allows you to run multiple Node.js applications (services) that are centrally managed. nodejs hot

The Return of the UX Generalist - AI advances make UX generalists valuable, reversing the trend toward specialization. Understanding multiple disciplines is increasingly important. career

Item Flow, Part 1 - A new unified concept for layout safari, grid, css hot

inngest - Inngest's durable functions replace queues, state management, and scheduling to enable developers to build reliable, AI-ready step functions faster — without touching infrastructure. workflows

How to set up TypeScript with Node.js and Express - Pretty basic but useful! nodejs, express, typescript