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weeklyfoo #115 is here: your weekly digest of all webdev news you need to know! This time you'll find 24 valuable links in 6 categories! Enjoy!
🚀 Read it!
- How I keep up with AI-generated PRs: AI coding assistants have shifted the bottleneck in software development. Writing code is now trivially fast. Reviewing it is not. by Rafael Garcia / ai, reviews, engineering / 6 min read
📰 Good to know
- Has the cost of building software just dropped 90%?: The economics have changed dramatically now with agentic coding, and it is going to totally transform the software development industry (and the wider economy). by Martin Alderson / ai, engineering / 8 min read
- The highest quality codebase: Over the Thanksgiving weekend I had some time on my hands and tasked Claude to write an app that guestimates macronutrients in some foods based on description + photo. by Greg Pstrucha / ai / 7 min read
- How We're Protecting Our Newsroom from npm Supply Chain Attacks: We got lucky with Shai-Hulud 2.0. by Ryan Sobol / pnpm, security / 14 min read
- The Rise of the 0.1x Engineer: 10x vs 0.1x by Jeremy Pinto / engineering, ai / 1 min read
- CSS Wrapped 2025: This year, we're giving you new tools to sculpt a dynamic web. by chrome.dev / css / 31 min read
- Incomplete List of Mistakes in the Design of CSS: That should be corrected if anyone invents a time machine. by csswg.org / css / 6 min read
- What you should know about constraints in PostgreSQL: In this blog, we explore Postgres constraints through the pg_constraint catalog, covering table vs. column constraints, constraint triggers, domains and more. by Gulcin Yildirim Jelinek / postgres / 12 min read
- Introducing GPT-5.2: The most advanced frontier model for professional work and long-running agents. by OpenAI / ai / 1 min read
- Mechanical Habits: My schtick as a software engineer is establishing automated processes by Alex Kladov / engineering, automation / 9 min read
- Useful patterns for building HTML tools: I’ve started using the term HTML tools to refer to HTML applications that I’ve been building which combine HTML, JavaScript, and CSS in a single file and use them to provide useful functionality. by Simon Willison / html, tools / 20 min read
- Deno 2.6: dx is the new npx by Bartek Iwańczuk, Andy Jiang / deno / 21 min read
- npm classic tokens revoked, session-based auth and CLI token management now available: As previously announced, we’re completing the npm classic token deprecation today. by github.blog / npm / 6 min read
- Announcing the JavaScript/TypeScript Modernizer for VS Code: Keeping JavaScript/TypeScript projects up-to-date can be a challenge, especially when it’s time to upgrade a bunch of npm packages or adopt the latest frameworks. by Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi / javascript, typescript, modernization / 13 min read
🧰 Tools
- Apptron: Local-first development platform by apptron.dev / engineering, ide
- Vibe SDK: An open-source vibe coding platform that helps you build your own vibe-coding platform, built entirely on Cloudflare stack by cloudflare.com / cloudflare, ai
- fate: fate is a modern data client for React. by fate.technology / react
- Indie UI: Collection of UI components and free shadcn form builder by Ali Hussein / design, ui
- React-Grid-Layout: A draggable and resizable grid layout with responsive breakpoints, for React. by react-grid-layout / react, grid
- mgrep: A calm, CLI-native way to semantically grep everything, like code, images, pdfs and more. by mixedbread.ai / search, grep
🎨 Design
- Why stealing design works: 99% of designers still get this wrong (and blame others for it). by Felix Lee / design / 7 min read
📚 Tutorials
- The Deep Card Conundrum: Enter the Deep Card. by Amit Sheen / css / 20 min read
📺 Videos
- AI paradox: faster coding, slower shipping: Why are we coding faster, but shipping slower? Here is a “practical playbook” for AI-assisted software engineering in 2025. by Addy Osmani / ai
- TypeSlayer: a TypeScript types performance tool by Michigan TypeScript / typescript
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