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weeklyfoo #83 is here: your weekly digest of all webdev news you need to know! This time you'll find 35 valuable links in 7 categories! Enjoy!
🚀 Read it!
- The One-Person Framework in practice: How I built a seven-figure business with Rails by Bram Jetten / business, engineering / 11 min read
📰 Good to know
- Why are big tech companies so slow?: Big tech companies spend a lot of time and money building things that a single, motivated engineer could build in a weekend. by Sean Goedecke / engineering / 7 min read
- How I Got Exploited At My First Startup: 11 months in The Side Hustle From Hell by Jacob Bartlett / startups / 19 min read
- How To Get Good at Strategy: Quick pointers for improving your strategic thinking as a leader by Claire Lew / strategy, leadership / 15 min read
- How I'm Posting This Article Using Model Context Protocol (MCP): Nice future ahead of us ;) by Govind Pandey / mcp, ai / 10 min read
- Storybook 9 is now in beta: Try the future of UI testing today by Michael Shilman / ui, storybook / 6 min read
- The Hidden Cost of AI Coding: tldr: lack of joy by Matheus Lima / ai, engineering / 6 min read
- From 0 to 10K Stars: How Open SaaS became the Free Boilerplate Devs Love by vincanger / oss / 16 min read
- How I Created Perfect Wiki and Reached $250K in Annual Revenue Without Investors: In this article, I want to share how the idea came about, the mistakes I made, how I found my first customers, and how I gradually grew to a steady income of $250,000 a year over five years. by Ilia Pirozhenko / startups / 10 min read
- A faster way to copy SQLite databases between computers: I store a lot of data in SQLite databases on remote servers, and I often want to copy them to my local machine for analysis or backup. by Alex Chan / sqlite, databases / 5 min read
- A weekly mind meld: Writing to your team every week is a great way of building trust, calling out what's importantly, and letting people get to know you better. by James Stanier / leadership / 14 min read
- 225. Systems Ideas that Sound Good But Almost Never Work— Let's just…: Some engineering patterns that sound good but almost never work as intended by Steven Sinofsky / engineering / 11 min read
- GSAP is now 100% FREE!: Thanks to Webflow GSAP is now 100% FREE including ALL of the bonus plugins like SplitText, MorphSVG, and all the others that were exclusively available to Club GSAP members. by Cassie Evans, Jack Doyle / gsap / 8 min read
- Converting values to strings in JavaScript: Converting values to strings in JavaScript is more complicated than it might seem. by Dr. Axel Rauschmayer / javascript / 7 min read
🧰 Tools
- TmuxAI: AI-Powered, Non-Intrusive Terminal Assistant by Alvin / ai, cli
- web-eval-agent: An MCP server that autonomously evaluates web applications. by operative.sh / mcp, ai
- mini-img-editor: Online webgl photo editor with effects, filters and cropping by MiNi / images
- Flow Fields Pattern Generator: Generate flow fields patterns by creatorstoolbox.co / design, art
- Website Headlines: Home of the internet's finest website headlines. by websiteheadlines.com / gallery
- Seyfert: the black magic Discord framework by seyfert.dev / discord
- Javascript Font Picker: An open source, free (as in beer), versatile, flexible and lightweight Javascript Font Picker Component for System fonts, Google fonts and custom (woff/ttf) fonts. by Wiebe Beeftink / fonts
- bhvr: A monorepo template using Bun, Hono, Vite, and React by Steve Simkins / framework, bun, hono, vite, react
- Design Tokens Name Generator: Create consistent and scalable design token naming conventions for your design system by Romina Kavcic / design-tokens
- Draggable Carousel: Carousel component with draggable functionality. by David Bismut / carousel, draggable
- LightUp: AI Insights Without Ever Leaving the Page by Mohamed Sadiq / chrome-extension
- Context7: Up-to-date documentation for LLMs and AI code editors by Upstash / docs, mcp, ai
- Gemini Coder: Non-agentic 100% free & open source coding tool for AI-assisted programming. by Robert Piosik / gemini, ai, vscode
🎨 Design
- How to Stop People from Skipping Your Onboarding: Users land in your product, already confused. Not because your UX is broken—but because they skipped the onboarding copy you intentionally added. by Peter Ramsey / ux, onboarding / 11 min read
- Good vs Great Animations: This article is a collection of practical tips to help you go from good to great animations. by Emil Kowalski / design, animations / 5 min read
- The Future of Web Design: Will We Even Recognize It in 100 Years? by Noah Davis / design / 13 min read
🤪 Fun
- Passport Photos: Not related to webdev at all, but it's a great photo series. by Max Siedentopf / passport / 2 min read
📚 Tutorials
- Blob shape with hover effect: Use the new shape() and create a cool CSS-only blob shape. by Temani Afif / css / 2 min read
- It’s School time! Adventures in hacking kindle: Learn how to hack a Kindle and access its content. by Saurabh Khawasé / hacking, kindle / 10 min read
- Turn any git repo into llm readable format: This post explains how to go through all files of a repo and put it into a readable format for large language models. by Tzgyn / llm, git, repo / 9 min read
📺 Videos
- Vite and the future of Frontend Tooling: The creator of VueJS and Vite will update us whats new on Vite, and give us more information about the future of Frontend Tooling. by Evan You / vite
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