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Garbage -> Value

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Rust gives you a productivity boost once the codebase no longer fits in your head, CSS apparently powers elevators now, and JavaScript Promises get the calm, thorough treatment they always deserved. Zed ships Claude Code (you were loud, they listened), while Fresh 2.0 grabs Vite and sprints into beta. Meanwhile, senior devs sling 2.5x more AI-generated code than juniors—possibly because they’ve outsourced their imposter syndrome to agents (just don’t build multi-agent Rube Goldberg machines, Walden says). Need 101+ AI blueprints? Richard and Andrea brought the catalog. Regex gets set operations, media transcoding sneaks into pure TypeScript, and Terminals everywhere are evolving: bookmarkable Zellij sessions, web-based Termix, and a vibe-driven editor experiment.

Also: a post-mortem of a UI library (always good archaeology), accurate Unicode text lengths (your “length” validation was lying), beacons that say goodbye politely, and a reminder that PostgreSQL can go toe-to-toe with your over-engineered Elasticsearch plan. Plus: pair programming in Hopp, rendering big lists with react-window, agents in the cloud, and 500+ agent project ideas if you still think you’re late.

Find the 10 highlighted links of weeklyfoo #101:


First attempt will be 95% garbage

by Vincent Quigley

A staff engineer's 6-week journey with Claude Code

🚀 Read it!, ai, engineering


Terminal sessions you can bookmark

by Aram Drevekenin

Building Zellij’s web client

📰 Good to know, zellij, terminal, browser


Vibe Shift? Senior Developers Ship nearly 2.5x more AI Code than Junior Counterparts

by Alina Lehtinen-Vela

Fastly’s July 2025 survey of 791 developers found a notable difference in how much AI-generated code is making it into production.

📰 Good to know, ai, survey


CSS Elevator

by Christian Sabourin

A Pure CSS State Machine With Floor Navigation

📰 Good to know, css, state


Promises From The Ground Up

by Josh W. Comeau

There are a lot of speed bumps and potholes on the road to JavaScript proficiency. One of the biggest and most daunting is Promises.

📰 Good to know, javascript, promises


Zellij

by zellij.dev

A terminal workspace with batteries included

🧰 Tools, terminal


System Prompts Leaks

by Ásgeir Thor Johnson

Collection of extracted System Prompts from popular chatbots like ChatGPT, Claude & Gemini

🧰 Tools, ai, prompts


Mediabunny

by David P.

Pure TypeScript media toolkit for reading, writing, and converting video and audio files, directly in the browser.

🧰 Tools, media, typescript


Where is the sloth?

by Michael Ryczkowski

No further comment needed.

🤪 Fun, fun


You don't need Elasticsearch!

by Thomas Gräfenstein

Fuzzy Search with PostgreSQL and Spring Data

📺 Videos, postgres, elastic


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