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weeklyfoo #114 is here: your weekly digest of all webdev news you need to know! This time you'll find 35 valuable links in 5 categories! Enjoy!
🚀 Read it!
- 21 Lessons from 14 Years at Google: On code, careers, and the human side of engineering by Addy Osmani / engineering, lessons, career / 15 min read
📰 Good to know
- Writing a good CLAUDE.md: This post is also applicable to AGENTS.md, the open-source equivalent of CLAUDE.md for agents and harnesses like OpenCode, Zed, Cursor and Codex. by Kyle Mistele / ai, agents / 10 min read
- Punycode: My New Favorite Algorithm by Ian Duncan / algorithms / 38 min read
- Why use React?: This isn’t a rhetorical question. by Jeremy Keith / react / 20 min read
- What Actually Makes You Senior: Reducing ambiguity. Everything else flows from that. by Matheus Lima / engineering / 5 min read
- Tech predictions for 2026 and beyond: For much of the world, technology has become so intertwined with our day-to-day lives that it influences everything. by Werner Vogels / tech, predictions / 21 min read
- Wrangling my email with Claude Code: Writing a Gmail Skill to access email by James Long / claud, ai, emails / 12 min read
- Why local tech scenes have changed: AI has changed the risk-benefit equation for local talent and opportunity cost by Alex Danco / engineering, ai / 18 min read
- Masonry: Things You Won’t Need A Library For Anymore by Patrick Brosset / css, masonry / 26 min read
- CSS-in-JS: The Great Betrayal of Frontend Sanity by Alexander T. Williams / css, js / 30 min read
- Critical Security Vulnerability in React Server Components: There is an unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerability in React Server Components. by React Team / react, security / 5 min read
- Vite 8 Beta: The Rolldown-powered Vite by vite.dev / vite, rollup / 7 min read
- No more tokens!: Locking down npm Publish Workflows by Zach Leatherman / npm, security / 9 min read
- Vanilla CSS is all you need: No Sass. No PostCSS. No build tools. by Rob Zolkos / css, vanilla / 12 min read
- Startup Engineering Team Organisation: There are many ways to set up a startup software engineering team, and many teams follow the same progression and encounter the same issues. by Marc Gauthier / engineering, team, organization / 14 min read
- A modern guide to SQL JOINs: There are many SQL JOINs guides and tutorials, but this one takes a different approach. by Alexey Makhotkin / sql / 22 min read
- Progress on TypeScript 7: December 2025 by Daniel Rosenwasser / typescript, progress / 19 min read
- 2025 In Review: What’s New In Web Performance? by Matt Zeunert / web, performance, review / 18 min read
- Why We Built Lightpanda in Zig: Because We're Not Smart Enough for C++ or Rust by Francis Bouvier / zig, rust / 12 min read
🧰 Tools
- ExposedByDefault: This is the data your browser hands out automatically, every time! by neberej / browsers
- Susty Icons: Simple, smart, and scalable vector graphics for a speedy and sustainable web. by Rosalyn Newell / icons
- voici.js: A Node.js library for pretty printing your data on the terminal by Lars Wächter / terminal, data, printing
- Chokidar: Minimal and efficient cross-platform file watching library by Paul Miller / file, nodejs
- Generate badge: Show your users how many (better yet, how few) dependencies your library contains. by Jacob Bennett / dependencies, badge
- RetroUI: A NeoBrutalism styled React + TailwindCSS UI library for building bold, modern web apps. by Arif Hossain / ui, react, tailwindcss, brutalism
- Project Wallace: Project Wallace is a set of CSS analyzers that check your complexity, specificity, performance, Design Tokens and much more. And all of that in a single web app. by projectwallace.com / css, performance
- framework7: Full featured HTML framework for building iOS & Android apps by framework7.io / framework, ios, android
- React Web Camera: A React component for capturing multiple photos directly from the browser. by Shivantra / react, camera, browser
- Remend: Self-healing markdown. by Hayden Bleasel / markdown, self-healing
- Fresh: Text editor for your terminal. by Noam Lewis / terminal, editor, rust
- Walrus: High Performance kafka alternative written in rust by Daksh R / rust, kafka, performance
- Dembrandt: Extract any website’s design system into design tokens in a few seconds: logo, colors, typography, borders, and more. One command. by dembrandt.com / design
📚 Tutorials
- Non-Square Image Blur Extensions: Learn a simple way by Ana Tudor / css / 44 min read
- Prevent a page from scrolling while a dialog is open: Pretty cool! by Geoff Graham / css / 3 min read
📺 Videos
- Modern React Patterns: Concurrent Rendering, Actions & What’s Next by Aurora Scharff / react
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