Stay ahead in web development: latest news, tools, and insights #128

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weeklyfoo #128 is here: your weekly digest of all webdev news you need to know! This time you'll find 34 valuable links in 4 categories! Enjoy!

🚀 Read it!

The 8 Levels of Agentic Engineering: AI's coding ability is outpacing our ability to wield it effectively. by Bassim Eledath / ai, engineering / 18 min read

📰 Good to know

Your Coding Agent Keeps Making the Same Mistakes. I Built a Fix: Explored how coding agents can learn from past mistakes with a new pi-self-learning extension. by Matteo Collina / ai, errors / 3 min read
The Linux Kernel Will Soon Be MIT-Licensed and Copyleft Will Be Dead Within 5 Years: The GNU Public License is popular with many developers, but it’s lost a lot of its momentum over the years. by lowendbox.com / linux, copyleft, mit / 13 min read
Filesystems are having a moment: Everyone is talking about files by Daniel Madalitso Phiri / files / 10 min read
Grow fast and overload things: The general vibes I see online is that the AI companies have not been doing particularly well in the reliability department. by Lorin Hochstein / ai, reliability / 4 min read
Introducing TanStack Intent: Ship Agent Skills with your npm Packages by TanStack / ai, docs, agents / 8 min read
Introducing Code Review: A new feature for Claude Code. by Claude / claude, ai / 1 min read
Video Conferencing with Postgres: Yesterday on X, SpacetimeDB tweeted that they had done the world's first video call over a database and, in their own way, invited anyone else to give it a try. by Nick Van Wiggeren / postgres / 8 min read
Announcing TypeScript 6.0 RC: Today we are excited to announce the Release Candidate (RC) of TypeScript 6.0! by Daniel Rosenwasser / typescript / 35 min read
Astro 6: Astro 6 introduces a broad set of new capabilities, including a built-in Fonts API, Content Security Policy API, and support for Live Content Collections that work with your externally-hosted content through the unified Astro content layer. by Astro Blog / astro / 14 min read
Crawl entire websites with a single API call using Browser Rendering: You can now crawl an entire website with a single API call using Browser Rendering's new /crawl endpoint, available in open beta. by Cloudflare / cloudflare, crawl / 3 min read
A Unix Manifesto for the Age of AI: Six Principles by linuxtoaster.com / unix, ai, manifesto / 6 min read
How to steal npm publish tokens by opening GitHub issues: A chain of vulnerabilities and pretty clever attack strategies led to the compromise of the Cline CLI. Let me explain what happened and what you can do to protect yourself. by Neciu Dan / ai, security / 11 min read
Using CSS animations as state machines to remember focus and hover states with CSS only: Recently, I was searching for a way to style an element depending on whether it was ever focused. by Patrick Brosset / css / 5 min read
The Value of z-index: The z-index property is one of the most important tools any UI developer has at their disposal, as it allows you to control the stacking order of elements on a webpage. by Amit Sheen / css / 12 min read
WordPress Everywhere: As we announced and TechCrunch covered, my.wordpress.net has soft-launched. by Matt Mullenweg / wordpress / 7 min read
Productive Individuals Don't Make Productive Firms: AI just made every individual 10x more productive. No company became 10x more valuable as a result. Where did the productivity go? by George Sivulka / engineering, productivity / 1 min read
WTF does a product manager do? (and why engineers should care): Skills for developers from the product manager playbook by Jina Yoon / productmanagement / 11 min read
Vite 8.0 is out!: We're thrilled to announce the stable release of Vite 8! by vite.dev / vite / 11 min read
RedwoodSDK 1.0: Getting Out of the Weeds by Peter Pistorius / redwood, cloudflare / 6 min read

🧰 Tools

page-agent.js: JavaScript in-page GUI agent. Control web interfaces with natural language. by alibaba / ai, web
UX Components: Search components by Patrick Neeman / ui
Revo Grid: Powerful virtual data table smartsheet with advanced customization. Best features from excel plus incredible performance by rv-grid.com / grid
Free Online SVG Converter: A simple workflow to turn images into scalable vector graphics. by Kristjan Retter, Hendrik Parik / svg
Photo Palettes: Generate beautiful color palettes from your photos. by photopalettes.com / colors
Ki Editor: Multi-cursor combinatoric modal editor. by ki-editor.org / editor
Plannotator: Annotate and review coding agent plans and code diffs visually, share with your team, send feedback to agents with one click. by plannotator.ai / ai, agents, reviews
emittery: Simple and modern async event emitter by Sindre Sorhus / async, events
Verdaccio: A lightweight Node.js private proxy registry by verdaccio.org / registry
Rudel: Claude Code Session Analytics by rudel.ai / ai, claude, reports
OneCLI: Open-source credential vault, give your AI agents access to services without exposing keys. by onecli.sh / ai, credentials
theSVG: 4,000+ brand SVG icons for developers. Tree-shakeable, typed, open source. npm i thesvg by thesvg.org / svg, icons
TerminalUse: The easiest way to deploy Claude Agent SDK and Codex agents. by terminaluse.com / ai, tgerminal