Stay ahead in web development: latest news, tools, and insights #119

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weeklyfoo #119 is here: your weekly digest of all webdev news you need to know! This time you'll find 39 valuable links in 5 categories! Enjoy!

🚀 Read it!

When AI writes almost all code, what happens to software engineering?: No longer a hypothetical question, this is a mega-trend set to hit the tech industry by Gergely Orosz / ai, engineering / 19 min read

📰 Good to know

where good ideas come from (for coding agents): and the part where users have to level up by Sunil Pai / ideas, ai / 16 min read
A first look at the Web Install API: Basically still PWAs (Progressive Web Apps) except you can offer a button-click to install them. by Chris Coyier / web, pwa / 3 min read
The Next Two Years of Software Engineering: The software industry sits at a strange inflection point. by Addy Osmani / engineering, ai / 18 min read
Databases in 2025: A Year in Review by Andy Pavlo / databases / 36 min read
2025 JavaScript Rising Stars: Welcome to the 10th edition of JavaScript Rising Stars! by risingstars.js.org / javascript / 36 min read
Fixing TypeScript Performance Problems: A Case Study by Solomon Hawk / typescript / 16 min read
Don’t Outsource Your Thinking: and other observations on Code Generation Tools by Teltam / ai, engineering / 15 min read
Why Most Websites Don’t Actually Need Cookie Consent Banners: Most small business websites don't actually need those annoying cookie consent banners that interrupt the user experience. by block81.com / consent / 8 min read
4 CSS Features Every Front-End Developer Should Know In 2026: This is only some of the CSS that shipped in 2025 you need to know. by Adam Argyle / css / 8 min read
State of HTML 2025: If you want to get an idea of how capable the web platform has gotten over the past few years, look no further than the list of categories covered in this survey. by 2025.stateofhtml.com / html, survey / 3 min read
The 8 trends that will define web development in 2026: AI to improved security by David Omotayo / ai, engineering / 12 min read
npm to Implement Staged Publishing After Turbulent Shift Off Classic Tokens: The planned feature introduces a review step before releases go live, following the Shai-Hulud attacks and a rocky migration off classic tokens that disrupted maintainer workflows. by Sarah Gooding / npm, publishing / 1 min read
The 1000 commits problem: Claude Code’s latest release included 1,096 commits. And yesterday, one of those commits broke the entire CLI. by Dave Kiss / anthropic / 5 min read
AI is a business model stress test: The story circulating is that AI is killing Open Source businesses. I don't think that is quite right. by Dries Buytaert / ai, business / 4 min read
You are absolutely right!?: 2025 will be looked back on as the most transformative time in software engineering. by Christoph Nakazawa / ai / 18 min read

🧰 Tools

taws: A terminal-based AWS resource viewer and manager by Hüseyin Babal / tools, aws
Awesome Agentic Patterns: A curated catalogue of awesome agentic AI patterns by Nikola Balic / ai, directory
Its Hover: Icons that move with intent by itshover.com / icons
Markwhen: Make a cascading timeline from markdown-like text. Supports simple American/European date styles, ISO8601, images, links, locations, and more. by markwhen.com / markdown, editor
Dexter: An autonomous agent for deep financial research by Virat Singh / ai, finance
oyo: A different viewer by Victor Aremu / diffs
repogrep: Repogrep is an AI coding agent that can search across any public GitHub repository by ami.dev / ai, search, github
Mantic: A structural code search engine for Al agents. by Marco Fortes / ai, search
Prism.Tools: Every Dev Tool You Need by BLGardner / tools
Design Tokens Visualizer: Explore and understand the relationships between design tokens and components across your design system by design-tokens-visualizer.vercel.app / design, tokens
Markdown UI: An open standard for rendering interactive widgets in plain Markdown. by markdown-ui.blueprintlab.io / markdown
color-input: a modern color picker for the web with support for all spaces by Adam Argyle / colors
Tool UI: Beautiful UI components for AI tool calls by tool-ui.com / ui
Noi: Less chaos. More flow. by lencx / ai
Motion Folios: Step inside the portfolios of the world’s finest motion designers, explore their craft, and find the spark that shapes your next big idea. by motionfolios.com / gallery
npmgraph: Explore npm modules and dependencies by npmgraph.js.org / npm
node-html-parser: A very fast HTML parser, generating a simplified DOM, with basic element query support. by taoqf / html
Flux: An open-source CLI for deploying LangChain agents to iMessage in seconds. by tryflux.ai / ai, iMessage
The Package Management Landscape: A directory of tools, libraries, registries, and standards across package management. by Andrew Nesbitt / package-management

🎨 Design

10 UX design shifts you can’t ignore in 2026: Another year, another wave of “What to expect in 2026” guides. I’m sure you’ve already scrolled through a few. by Arin Bhowmick / trends / 1 min read

📚 Tutorials

Scroll percent: Scrolling is a fundamental UI interaction on a webpage, on any device. by Brad Woods / javascript, scrolling / 2 min read
Build a dinosaur runner game with Deno: pt. 1 by Jo Franchetti / deno, game / 7 min read
Making Software: A reference manual for people who design and build software. by Dan Hollick / engineering / 1 min read