Stay ahead in web development: latest news, tools, and insights #116

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weeklyfoo #116 is here: your weekly digest of all webdev news you need to know! This time you'll find 26 valuable links in 4 categories! Enjoy!

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AI agents are starting to eat SaaS: We spent fifteen years watching software eat the world. by Martin Alderson / ai, saas / 10 min read

📰 Good to know

Claude Agent Skills: A First Principles Deep Dive by Han Lee / ai, claude / 39 min read
Justified: I’m really bad at this SEO title thing by bitecode.dev / tools / 11 min read
2025 Year in Review: The Cloudflare Radar 2025 Year in Review shines a light on the Internet's patterns and trends as observed through Cloudflare's global network. by cloudflare.com / cloudflare, review / 1 min read
Ideas Aren’t Getting Harder to Find: For half a decade we’ve been worrying that ideas are getting harder to find. In fact, they might just be harder to sell. by Karthik Tadepalli / ideas / 19 min read
GraphQL: the enterprise honeymoon is over by John James / graphql, engineering / 6 min read
The Bet On Juniors Just Got Better: Why genies can make hiring juniors more profitable, & what you need to change to get there by Kent Beck / ai, engineering / 7 min read
How to prompt v0: Better prompts = better results, faster by Esteban Suárez / v0, ai / 11 min read
The State of AI Coding: A cross-industry study on recent trends in AI software development. by greptile.com / ai, report / 10 min read
AI's real superpower: consuming, not creating by Mike San Román / ai / 4 min read
Levels.fyi Wrapped: Levels.fyi annual compensation report. Explore top paying companies, cities, titles, and trends from 2025. by Levels.fyi / salary, engineering / 11 min read
Introducing GPT-5.2-Codex: The most advanced agentic coding model for professional software engineering and defensive cybersecurity. by openai.com / ai, openai / 1 min read
Minification isn't obfuscation: Claude Code proves it by Martin Alderson / ai, claude / 6 min read
2025 Developer Survey: The 2025 Developer Survey is the definitive report on the state of software development. by stackoverflow.co / survey, engineering / 15 min read
The JavaScript Bundler Grand Prix: The desire to shave milliseconds off JavaScript build times has been relentless, but progress has been slow. by Kate Holterhoff / bundlers, tools / 13 min read

🧰 Tools

check-if-email-exists: Check if an email address exists without sending any email, written in Rust. by reacher.email / tools, emails
claude-mem: A Claude Code plugin that automatically captures everything Claude does during your coding sessions, compresses it with AI (using Claude's agent-sdk), and injects relevant context back into future sessions. by claude-mem.ai / ai, claude
BrowserScore: How your browser scores. by Lea Verou / browser, performance
EaseMaster: CSS & Spring Easing Generator by Satish Kumar / css
sonda: Universal visualizer and analyzer for JavaScript and CSS. Compatible with most bundlers and frameworks by Filip Sobol / tools, visualizer
Letta: Letta is the platform for building stateful agents: open AI with advanced memory that can learn and self-improve over time. by letta.com / ai, agents
Telescope: Cross-browser web performance testing agent by Cloudflare / tools, cloudflare
lucide-animated: beautifully crafted animated icons by dmytro / icons
Dither Image Online: Free, Fast, and Real-Time Dither Image Generator. by Kai Leslie / tools, image
picknplace.js: A proof of concept of a viable drag and drop alternative. by Jeremy Thomas / tools, drag-and-drop