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Stay ahead in web development: latest news, tools, and insights #48

weeklyfoo #48 is here: your weekly digest of all webdev news you need to know! This time you'll find 41 valuable links in 6 categories! Enjoy!

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📰 Good to know


🧰 Tools

  • buffdb: Embedded storage built for multiplexing. Smart machines don't need to read JSON, they only need protocol buffers. The world's first MODMS (Machine-Oriented Database Management System), built to support RocksDB, SQLite, and DuckDB as backends. / databases
  • ChartDB: Free and Open-source database diagrams editor, visualize and design your DB with a single query. / databases
  • fuite: A tool for finding memory leaks in web apps / security
  • Sherlock: Hunt down social media accounts by username across social networks / usernames
  • PhotoGradient: Create gradients from uploaded images. / gradients, color
  • html-metadata: MetaData html scraper and parser for Node.js (supports Promises and callback style) / scraping
  • npm-check-updates: Find newer versions of package dependencies than what your package.json allows / npm
  • Vanilla Prime: A simpler, more sustainable way of web development / framework
  • Free Public APIs: A collection og > 200 public APIs / apis
  • N3: Lightning fast, spec-compatible, streaming RDF for JavaScript / rdf
  • HotScript: A library of composable functions for the type-level! Transform your TypeScript types in any way you want using functions you already know. / typescript
  • DEPARTURE_M0NO: Departure Mono is a monospaced pixel font inspired by the constraints of early command-line and graphical user interfaces, the tiny pixel fonts of the late 90s/early 00s, and sci-fi concepts from film and television. / fonts
  • Animated Favicon Generator: Upload a gif and convert it to an animated favicon. / animations, favicons
  • Alphredo: Alpha colors generator / colors
  • Firecrawl: Turn entire websites into LLM-ready markdown or structured data. Scrape, crawl and extract with a single API. / scraping

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