Stay ahead in web development: latest news, tools, and insights #120

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weeklyfoo #120 is here: your weekly digest of all webdev news you need to know! This time you'll find 28 valuable links in 3 categories! Enjoy!

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The Key to Agentic Success? BASH Is All You Need: Vercel and open source developers found that minimalist AI agent architectures based on Unix, with simple BASH shells and modular tools, can outperform complex, over-engineered systems. by Joab Jackson / ai, bash / 31 min read

📰 Good to know

Agent-native Architectures: A technical guide for building applications where agents are first-class citizens. by Dan Shipper / ai, architecture, engineering / 27 min read
Code Is Cheap Now. Software Isn’t.: The barrier to entry for building software has collapsed. The barrier to building something that matters hasn’t moved an inch. by Chris Gregori / ai, engineering / 10 min read
The complete claude code tutorial: Here’s a beginners playbook you might find useful, containing everything I’ve learned about Claude after using it to build robust systems that handle complex workloads from large companies. by Eyad / ai, claude / 1 min read
What is an Engineer?: As I write this, it’s the start of 2026 and many people are in a crisis about what their job is. by Max Kanat-Alexander / ai, engineering / 21 min read
Tips for making the Performance Panel less overwhelming: The Performance Panel is used for detailed investigations on traces captured during page load or during user interactions. by Ian Duffy / tips / 9 min read
Date is out, Temporal is in: Time makes fools of us all, and JavaScript is no slouch in that department either. by Mat Marquis / javascript, temporal, date / 20 min read
Web dependencies are broken. Can we fix them?: Dear JS ecosystem, I love you, but you have a dependency management problem when it comes to the Web, and the time has come for an intervention. by Lea Verou / web, dependencies, ecosystem / 25 min read
How wrong can a JavaScript Date calculation go?: The Date object in JavaScript is frequently one that causes trouble. by Phil Nash / javascript, date, calculation / 6 min read
2025 year in review: Happy New Year, Astronauts! by Shinya Fujino, Sarah Rainsberger / astro, year-in-review / 26 min read
Astro 6 Beta: Look at the cloudflare workers support! by Matthew Phillips / astro, cloudflare, workers / 9 min read
2026: This is AGI: Saddle up: Your dreams for 2030 just became possible for 2026. by Pat Grady, Sonya Huang / ai / 9 min read
Node.js package configuration guide: Official Guide by nodejs.github.io / nodejs, commonjs, esm / 1 min read
GitHub Copilot now supports Agent Skills: You can now create Agent Skills to teach Copilot how to perform specialized tasks in a specific, repeatable way. by github.blog / copilot, ai / 3 min read
Beyond Senior: Consider the staff path! by Joel Hawksley / career / 14 min read
The Complete Guide to CLAUDE.md: One file. Loaded before every conversation. If you're using Claude Code, this is where your setup time pays off most. by Vishwas Gopinath / claude, ai / 14 min read
How to write a good spec for AI agents: Aim for a clear spec covering just enough nuance (this may include structure, style, testing, boundaries) to guide the AI without overwhelming it. by Addy Osmani / ai, spec / 37 min read

🧰 Tools

Outray: OpenSource ngrok alternative. by Akinkunmi / proxy
Code Field: Creates a cognitive environment for code generation where edge cases surface naturally, assumptions become visible, and the gap between "works" and "correct" stays open. The goal is code that knows its own limits. by NeoVertex1 / ai, code-generation
Agent of Empires: Manage all your agents by Nathan Brake / ai, agents
Very Good Components: Browse our curated collection of HTML UI components ready to drop into your next project. by goodcomponents.io / gallery, ui
swark.io: Create architecture diagrams from code automatically using large language models (LLMs). by swark.io / ai, architecture
Aether CSS: A real-time playground for Liquid Glass, Glassmorphism & Neumorphism. by Dimitrije Djekanovic / css
json-render: AI → JSON → UI by json-render.dev / json, ai
Detail: A collection of small details that make big difference by Rene Wang / design, ui
tinypdf: Minimal PDF creation library. <400 LOC, zero dependencies, makes real PDFs. by Lulzx / pdf
Open Responses: Open Responses is an open-source specification for multi-provider, interoperable LLM interfaces insired by the OpenAI Responses API. by openresponses.org / ai, oss
Agent Skills: A collection of skills for AI coding agents. Skills are packaged instructions and scripts that extend agent capabilities. by vercel-labs / ai, agents