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weeklyfoo #82 is here: your weekly digest of all webdev news you need to know! This time you'll find 46 valuable links in 6 categories! Enjoy!
🚀 Read it!
- Leading From The Front: Don't look back. by Stay SaaSy / leadership / 11 min read
📰 Good to know
- My Backend Stack Is Just TypeScript + Postgres. Here’s Why That’s Enough: Most people overthink their backend way too early. You start building a new product and suddenly you’re researching Kafka, Redis, background workers, message queues, analytics pipelines, caching layers, and five microservices. But if you're being honest, you probably don’t need most of that. by Shayan / typescript, postgres / 18 min read
- Claude Code: Best practices for agentic coding: Claude Code is a command line tool for agentic coding. This post covers tips and tricks that have proven effective for using Claude Code across various codebases, languages, and environments. by Anthropic / ai, claude / 1 min read
- Better error handling: This blog posts suggests using go-style tuple responses for error handling by Thanh Tschoepe / go, errors / 18 min read
- How I use Kate Editor: I wanted to go over my workflow with it, why I like it so much and hopefully get more people to try it out. by Akseli Lahtinen / kate, editor / 12 min read
- Managing Underperformers: Kind managers address underperformance early and accurately. by Jack Danger / leadership / 10 min read
- 7 Phrases I use to make giving feedback easier for myself: Here are phrases I often use when sharing feedback because it makes it easier for me to speak openly and quickly, and encourages my recipient to take action. by Wes Kao / feedback / 11 min read
- Dependency-free Command-Line Apps powered by Node.js core modules: Argument parser, console text styler, logs. by Liran Tal / nodejs, core-modules / 5 min read
- The Best Node.js Observability Tools in 2025: N-Solid vs New Relic, Datadog, and More by Lizz Parody / monitoring / 9 min read
- Hyperwood: Open Source Furniture by Johannes Schmidt / furniture / 5 min read
- Tailwind vs Linaria: Performance Investigation: Investigating performance of Tailwind vs Linaria frameworks, with a focus on initial load and interaction performance. by Nadia Makarevich / tailwind, linaria / 24 min read
- Newfangled Browser Alternatives: What browsers are out there besides the big three? by Chris Coyier / browser, alternatives / 8 min read
- What Is llms.txt, and Should You Care About It?: Developers and marketers are being told to add llms.txt files to their sites to help large language models (LLMs) understand their content. But what exactly is llms.txt, who’s using it, and—more importantly—should you care? by Ryan Law / llms / 9 min read
- YAGRI: You are gonna read it by Scott Antipa / engineering / 3 min read
- React Labs: View Transitions, Activity, and more by Ricky Hanlon / react / 28 min read
- How I write my blogs in Obsidian and publish instantly: Nice workflow to write and publish blogs in Obsidian and publish instantly. by Gautham Shankar / obsidian, hugo, cloudflare / 4 min read
- On expressions' reordering in Postgres: Let's discuss micro-optimisations by Andrei Lepikhov / postgres, sql / 9 min read
- On loyalty to your employer: Criteria for evaluating loyalty to your employer. by Stevie Buckley / engineering, career / 7 min read
- Hiring Great People: Look for curiosity by Mike Fisher / hiring, engineering / 7 min read
- A Decade of SolidJS: The Journey of SolidJS and some learnings by the creator. by Ryan Carniato / solidjs, oss / 25 min read
- Time Travel with JavaScript: Using a powerful animation trick to create a 3D split flap display by jhey / javascript, animation / 11 min read
🧰 Tools
- @mcp-it/fastify: Automatically generate MCP tools from your Fastify API routes. by Adir Amsalem / mcp, fastify
- MCP Containers: Containerized versions of hundreds of MCP servers by Metorial / mcp
- tweakcn: A visual no-code theme editor for shadcn/ui components by Sahaj Jain / shadcn-ui
- Sidekick (Beta): Your agentic CLI developer by Gavin Vickery / ai
- Font Tester: Pick fonts for your website withiout breaking your head. Test fonts on live websites by Pail Freeman / fonts
- zodest: Modern Zod-based CLI builder, fully type-safe, super lightweight and flexible. by Charlike Mike Reagent / cli, zod
- RampenSau: Color palette generation function using hue cycling and simple easing functions. by David Aerne / colors
- Nerdlog: Fast, remote-first, multi-host TUI log viewer with timeline histogram and no central server by Dmitry Frank / log, cli
- AutoKitteh: Durable workflow automation in just a few lines of code by Itay Donanhirsh / workflow, automation
- European alternatives for digital products: We help you find European alternatives for digital service and products, like cloud services and SaaS products. by Constantin Graf / saas
- Rowboat: AI-powered multi-agent builder by rowboatlabs.com / ai, agents
- Spectacle: A React-based library for creating sleek presentations using JSX syntax that gives you the ability to live demo your code. by Formidable Labs / react, presentations
- React Three Map: Use React and Three.js inside Mapbox and Maplibre by Rodri / map, three.js
- SolidStart: The Solid app framework by solidjs.com / solidjs
- Legend List: A high-performance list component for React Native by Legend App / react-native, list
- Moose: The developer framework for your data & analytics stack by docs.fiveonefour.com / analytics
- tsdown: The elegant bundler for libraries powered by Rolldown by tsdown.dev / bundler, libraries
- zev: A simple CLI tool to help you remember terminal commands by Daniel Newman / ai, cli
- node-mlx: Machine learning framework for Node.js. by Frost Beta / machine-learning
- Colanode: Open-source and local-first Slack and Notion alternative that puts you in control of your data by colanode.com / collaboration
- p5.js: p5.js is a client-side JS platform that empowers artists, designers, students, and anyone to learn to code and express themselves creatively on the web. It is based on the core principles of Processing. by p5js.org / graphics, processing
🎨 Design
- Design Isn’t Dead. You Sound Dumb: The problem of clueless critics, inflated egos, and AI panic by Nate Schloesser / design / 8 min read
- Fun fatigue – is formality returning in branding?: Amid faltering public trust and a flood of AI slop, Mother Design's Alec Mezzetti asks if brands are abandoning the informal aesthetics of the mass casual era. by Alec Mezzetti / design / 9 min read
🤪 Fun
- CSS Hell: 15 unimaginably torturous CSS puzzles by Marcos Acosta / css / 1 min read
📚 Tutorials
- CSS view-timeline shine effect: Pretty cool scroll effect by Ryan Mulligan / css / 1 min read
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