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Stay ahead in web development: latest news, tools, and insights #41

weeklyfoo #41 is here: your weekly digest of all webdev news you need to know! This time you'll find 42 valuable links in 5 categories! Enjoy!

🚀 Read it!

  • Notes for new hires: Includes the advice to use friction and brag logs. / career / 7 min read
  • How to Help Underperformers: On systemic performance, the accountability dial, feedback, and the underperformance checklist. / career / 12 min read

📰 Good to know


🧰 Tools

  • threedsvg: Instantly Convert Any SVG to a 3D Logo / svg
  • QuickJS: A typescript package to execute javascript code in a webassembly quickjs sandbox / sandbox
  • BeaconDB: public domain wireless geolocation database / geo
  • Handy Arrows: A customizable gallery of hand-drawn arrow SVGs that can be easily copied as SVG code or React components for use in your projects. / svgs
  • Explainer for the Prompt API: A proposal for a web API for prompting browser-provided language models / ai
  • Onlook: The open source, local-first Webflow alternative. Design directly in your live React site and publish your changes to code. / pages
  • SQL Studio: SQL Database Explorer [SQLite, libSQL, PostgreSQL, MySQL/MariaDB, DuckDB, ClickHouse] / databases
  • Incidental: An opensource incident management platform integrating with Slack. / incidents
  • Public APIs: A collective list of free APIs / apis
  • milliparsec: Tiniest body parser in the universe. Built for modern Node.js / parser
  • Parallel DOM: Multithreaded DOM is possible. / dom
  • tegon: Tegon is an open-source, AI-first alternative to Jira, Linear / projects
  • Discover the base building blocks of any website: Get the colors, icons, and fonts from any website in seconds. Great for sparking new design ideas! / design
  • Braille-Tools: CSS and Javascript to display Braille grade 1 in web pages (for sighted people). / braille
  • Tailkits: Premium & free Tailwind CSS templates, UI Kits, and components to build modern websites faster. / tailwind
  • dotUI: Accessible, mobile friendly, modern UI components. / ui
  • CodeMirror: Development repository for the CodeMirror editor project / editors
  • Posting: The modern API client that lives in your terminal. / http

🎨 Design

  • The Only 8 Fonts You Will Ever Need: The first three fonts are new to me, but the other ones are classic. / fonts / 7 min read
  • Dark Patterns Hall of Shame: Protect your online privacy and rights by learning about dark patterns and unethical designs. Stay informed and avoid manipulation in the digital world. / dar-patterns / 6 min read
  • The Magic of Clip Path: clip-path is often used for trimming a DOM node into specific shapes, like triangles. But what if I told you that it's also great for animations? / css / 16 min read

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