Stay ahead in web development: latest news, tools, and insights #91

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weeklyfoo #91 is here: your weekly digest of all webdev news you need to know! This time you'll find 29 valuable links in 5 categories! Enjoy!

🚀 Read it!

Programming as Theory Building: Why Senior Developers Are More Valuable Than Ever by Christian Ekrem / engineering, ai / 7 min read

📰 Good to know

P-Hacking in Startups: When agile experimentation at startups becomes a p-hacking trap by Thaís Steinmuller / experiments, startups / 8 min read
Everything I know about good system design: State management, databases, ... by Sean Goedecke / engineering / 21 min read
Zero is Not Local-First. It's Better.: If you've used local-first libraries before, you'll know the pitch. by Jenna Smith / local-first / 9 min read
How to Vibe Code as a Senior Engineer: Over the past few months, I’ve rediscovered my love for building software. by Alex MacCaw / ai, vibe-coding / 9 min read
Career advice, or something like it: Cynicism is bad. by Marc Brooker / career / 4 min read
levered beta is all you need: how to win by riding waves you didn't make. by textql.notion.site / ai / 0 min read
Worker Threads in Node.js: A Complete Guide for Multithreading in JavaScript by Lizz Parody / nodejs, multithreading / 16 min read
SVGO 4.0.0: Major release of SVGO. by Seth Falco / svgs / 13 min read
Hono 4.8.0: Minor release of Hono. by Yusuke Wada / hono / 12 min read
Cloudflare Containers are here.: Watch our container platform open beta launch event! Learn about the platform, see demos, explore the road map, and get your questions answered. by Mike Nomitch / cloudflare / 0 min read
Feedback Is Not an Attack: Feedback isn’t just critique. It’s care. by Ashley Willis / feedback, engineering / 21 min read
React Re-Renders: What triggers React re-renders? by Serhii Shramko / react / 6 min read
Vite 7.0 is out!: Next major version of Vite by vite.dev / vite / 7 min read
I Deleted My Second Brain: Why I Erased 10,000 Notes, 7 Years of Ideas, and Every Thought I Tried to Save by Joan Westenberg / second-brain, productivity / 8 min read

🧰 Tools

Delta Chat: Delta Chat is a decentralized and secure messenger app by delta.chat / messaging
Claude Code for VSCode: Claude Code seamlessly integrates with popular Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) to enhance your coding workflow. This integration allows you to leverage Claude’s capabilities directly within your preferred development environment. by Anthropic / ai, vscode, claude
Compare: Compare is a free and open-source compensation comparison tool for job offers in the tech industry. by Devon Peroutky / career, compensation
Pickaxe: A Typescript library for building AI agents that scale by Gabe Ruttner / ai, agents
VSCan: Proactively analyze Visual Studio Code extensions for security vulnerabilities and ensure a safer development environment. by vscan.dev / security, vscode
Intl-T: A Fully-Typed Object-Based i18n Translation Library. by Iván Andrés Vargas / i18n
syntax-highlight element: Syntax Highlighting using the CSS Custom Highlight API by André Ruffert / syntax-highlighting, css
Alchemy: Alchemy is an embeddable, TypeScript-native Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) library for modeling Resources that are Created, Updated and Deleted automatically. It's like Terraform, but in pure TypeScript. by Sam Goodwin / iac, typescript
Apptainer: Application containers for Linux by apptainer.org / containers, linux
Magnitude: Magnitude uses vision AI to enable you to control your browser with natural language by magnitude.run / ai, agents
AI Dataset Generator: Create realistic datasets for demos, learning, and dashboards by Metabase / ai, datasets

📚 Tutorials

Build your first iOS app on Linux / Windows: Once you’ve completed Installation (Linux/Windows), use xtool to build and deploy an iOS app from your Linux/Windows machine. by xtool.sh / ios, linux / 1 min read
A guide to Scroll-driven Animations with just CSS: CSS animations have come a long way since Apple first introduced them to the web in 2007. What started as simple effects like animating from one color to another has turned into beautiful, complex images twisting and flying across the page. by Saron Yitbarek / css, animations / 12 min read