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weeklyfoo #107 is here: your weekly digest of all webdev news you need to know! This time you'll find 32 valuable links in 7 categories! Enjoy!
🚀 Read it!
- What's The Deal With GitHub Spec Kit: I get to finally write a bit about a project I was knee-deep in for the past month - GitHub Spec Kit. by Den Delimarsky / github, spec, kit / 22 min read
📰 Good to know
- Vibing a Non-Trivial Ghostty Feature: I recently shipped a non-trivial Ghostty feature (unobtrusive macOS automatic updates) that was largely developed with AI. by Mitchell Hashimoto / ai, ghostty / 18 min read
- GitHub Spark in public preview: for Copilot Enterprise subscribers by github.blog / copilot, ai / 6 min read
- GraphQL Myths: GraphQL has been around for nearly a decade, yet the same misconceptions persist in tech discussions and architecture reviews. by Jovi De Croock / graphql / 6 min read
- Announcing Vite+: A unified toolchain for JavaScript by Evan You / vite, linter, prettier / 6 min read
- Introducing Claude Haiku 4.5: Anthropic released Claude Haiku 4.5 today, the cheapest member of the Claude 4.5 family that started with Sonnet 4.5 a couple of weeks ago. by Simon Willison / ai, claude / 4 min read
- Why we're leaving serverless: Every millisecond matters when you're in the critical path of API authentication. After two years of fighting serverless limitations, we rebuilt our entire API stack and slashed the end-to-end latency. by Andreas Thomas / serverless, latency / 1 min read
- Claude Skills are awesome, maybe a bigger deal than MCP: Anthropic this morning introduced Claude Skills, a new pattern for making new abilities available to their models. by Simon Willison / ai, claude / 10 min read
- You Still Need to Think: As coding agents become more capable and long-running, they don't remove the human job of thinking. by Calvin French-Owen / ai / 3 min read
- How to Use AI to Help With Software Engineering Tasks: Use the C.R.A.F.T.E.D. prompt framework to save time with common SWE tasks! by Gregor Ojstersek, Steven Levey / ai, prompts / 17 min read
- Bun 1.3: Bun 1.3 is our biggest release yet. by bun.sh / bun / 73 min read
🧰 Tools
- Scribe OCR: Web interface for recognizing text, proofreading OCR, and creating fully-digitized documents. by scribeocr.com / ocr
- PWA Browser Scorecards: Compare Progressive Web App capabilities across popular mobile (and soon, desktop) browsers. by Charles Wiltgen / pwa, browsers
- Nitro: Next Generation Server Toolkit. Create web servers with everything you need and deploy them wherever you prefer. by nitro.build / server, toolkit, framework, typescript
- Harmonizer: Color Palette Generator by Evil Martians / colors
- Size Matters: Type Scale Generator by Ash Bryant / typography
- Mina Rich Editor: The first block-based rich text editor built entirely with Tailwind CSS and shadcn/ui. by Mina Massoud / editor, tailwind, shadcn
- MAML: Minimal. Human-readable. Machine-parsable. by maml.dev / markup
- Free OG Image Generator: Create beautiful OG Images, Twitter/X Header Images, Blog Featured Images & more for free, in simple clicks. by Fady Mak / og, image, generator
- DevTools: Your Ultimate Developer Toolkit by dev-tool.dev / tools
- WAHA: WhatsApp HTTP API (REST API) that you can install on your own server and run in less than 5 minutes! by devlikeapro / api, whatsapp, http, rest
- Cloudflare Sandbox: Execute commands, manage files, run services, and expose them via public URLs - all within secure, sandboxed containers. by Cloudflare / sandbox, cloudflare
- Deckless: Beautiful presentations from plain text. No design skills required. by Darren Kim / presentation, markdown, design
- Skeleton: Skeleton is an adaptive design system powered by Tailwind CSS. by skeleton.dev / ui, tailwind
- Graffle: Simple GraphQL Client for JavaScript. Minimal. Extensible. Type Safe. Runs everywhere. by graffle.js.org / graphql, client, javascript
- Zero: Zero is a new kind of sync engine powered by queries. by Rocicorp / sync, database, queries
🎨 Design
- Guide to the Inclusive Design Principles: The Inclusive Design Principles (IDP) were first published in 2016 by myself, Ian Pouncey, Léonie Watson, and Heydon Pickering. by Henny Swan / principles / 13 min read
- UX so bad that it's illegal: Big tech is divesting from user-centered design, and getting into hot water with the law. by Pavel Samsonov / ux / 5 min read
🤪 Fun
- HN Live: Someone has build a live stream for Hacker News by jerbear2008 / hackernews / 1 min read
📚 Tutorials
- Reading and Writing Files in Node.js: The Complete Modern Guide by Luciano Mammino / nodejs / 43 min read
- JavaScript tutorial on the fern fractal: There’s a quiet magic in the Barnsley fern—a simple set of rules that blossoms into a living, leafy pattern. by slicker.me / fern, fractal / 6 min read
📺 Videos
- Beyond Signals: Signals and fine-grained reactivity have recently become staples in modern JavaScript frameworks. by Ryan Carniato / signals, javascript
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