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weeklyfoo #126 is here: your weekly digest of all webdev news you need to know! This time you'll find 37 valuable links in 5 categories! Enjoy!
🚀 Read it!
- What Claude Code Actually Chooses: We pointed Claude Code at real repos 2,430 times and watched what it chose. No tool names in any prompt. Open-ended questions only. by Edwin Ong, Alex Vikati / ai, code, claude / 6 min read
📰 Good to know
- Code Mode: Give agents an entire API in 1,000 tokens by Matt Carey / ai, mcp, cloudlfare / 13 min read
- Minions: Stripe’s one-shot, end-to-end coding agents—Part 2 by Alistair Gray / ai, stripe / 1 min read
- The engineeringification of everything: Why every role seems like an engineering role now (and what it means for you) by Ian Vanagas / engineering / 8 min read
- Sprites on the Web: In 2015, back when Twitter was still Twitter, their dev team had a problem. by Josh W. Comeau / css, animation, webdev / 15 min read
- Dictionary Compression is finally here, and it's ridiculously good: Dictionary compression could completely change how applications send data over the web. by Tim Perry / compression / 27 min read
- The Future of Software Engineering with AI: Six Predictions: Notes from The Pragmatic Summit and ‘The Future of Software Development’ workshop by Gergely Orosz / ai / 16 min read
- How to build a distributed queue in a single JSON file on object storage: We recently replaced our internal indexing job queue, which notifies indexing nodes to build and update search indexes after data is written to the WAL. by Dan Harrison / queue, json / 10 min read
- Frontend Memory Leaks: A 500-Repository Static Analysis and Five-Scenario Benchmark Study by Ko-Hsin Liang / memory, leak, frontend / 31 min read
- 9 Advanced PostgreSQL Features I Wish I Knew Sooner: My first instinct was to write application-level validation, but something felt off. Surely PostgreSQL had a better way? by Thiery Michel / postgres, database / 12 min read
- border-shape: the future of the non-rectangular web by Una Kravets / css / 7 min read
- npm i chat: One codebase, every chat platform by Vercel / chat, vercel, ai / 7 min read
- Oxfmt Beta: We are excited to announce that Oxfmt has reached beta. by oxc.rs / formatting / 5 min read
- Cowork and plugins for teams across the enterprise: Admins can now create private plugin marketplaces, with better control over plugins, connectors, and skills. We've also added new plugins and connectors across more departments. by Claude / ai, claude / 19 min read
- Developers Are Safe… Thanks to Corporate Red Tape: By the end of 2026, AI will write most of the code and software developers will be obsolete. by Azam Sharp / ai / 6 min read
- Open Source Endowment: Truly sustainable funding for critical OSS through a community‑driven endowment by endowment.dev / oss / 6 min read
🧰 Tools
- Glitch Art Maker: Real-time WebGL video glitch tool in the browser. by yz-yu / glitch, art
- Cloudflare Agents: Build and deploy AI Agents on Cloudflare by Cloudflare / ai, cloudflare
- Pattern Collider: A web interactive for generating and exploring quasiperiodic tiling patterns by Aatish Bhatia / patterns, images
- Claude for Financial Services Plugins: Plugins that turn Claude into a specialist for financial services — investment banking, equity research, private equity, and wealth management. by Anthropics / claude, finance
- How we rebuilt Next.js with AI in one week: Last week, one engineer and an AI model rebuilt the most popular front-end framework from scratch. by Steve Faulkner / ai, nextjs, cloudflare, vinext
- Pi: There are many coding agents, but this one is mine. by Mario Zechner / agent, ai
- Emdash: Emdash is the Open-Source Agentic Development Environment by emdash.sh / ide, ai
- Wall of Portfolios: Lots of Portfolios by wallofportfolios.in / gallery
- NanoClaw: A lightweight alternative to Clawdbot / OpenClaw that runs in containers for security. Connects to WhatsApp, has memory, scheduled jobs, and runs directly on Anthropic's Agents SDK by nanoclaw.dev / ai, openclaw
- sabiql: A fast, driver-less TUI to browse, query, and edit PostgreSQL databases by riii111 / postgres, database, cli
- Page Gym: The Page Speed Optimization Tool by Razvan Cojocariu / performance, testing
- sugarcube: Design tokens in, CSS and components out. by sugarcube.sh / css
- Avatune: Tuning visual identity, emotional tone. Feels friendly & composable. by avatune.dev / avatars
- react-beautiful-color: React color picker you can actually customize by ozzy / colors
- numpy-ts: Full NumPy, in TypeScript/JavaScript (94% coverage) by Nico D. / math, array, matrix
- Edge: Node.js template engine with a breath of fresh air by edgejs.dev / templating
- bignumber.js: A JavaScript library for arbitrary-precision arithmetic. by Michael M / math
- Yoopta-Editor: Build Notion-like, Craft-like, Coda-like, Medium-like editors with Yoopta by yoopta.dev / editor
- Longbridge Terminal: A TUI trading application based on Longbridge OpenAPI. by Longbridge / trading, terminal
🤪 Fun
- Kaomoji Cool Club: Kao and Moji by kaomojicool.club / kaomoji / 3 min read
📺 Videos
- Data vs Hype: How Orgs Actually Win with AI: The Pragmatic Summit by Laura Tacho / ai, data
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