Ahmad Alfy finally gives URLs the respect they deserve—your state belongs in that address bar! Meanwhile, CSS keeps flexing with the Custom Highlight API (syntax highlighting has never been so native), and Node.js 24 hits LTS just in time for your 2028 planning spreadsheets.
Also in this issue: Xiaoyun Wu delivers the Rust migration case study with actual numbers—2x performance and $300k saved (the benchmarks don't lie). Addy Osmani charts the shift from micro to macro management in coding's async future, GitHub makes releases tamper-proof so your supply chain stops giving you nightmares, and Ben Stolovitz shares his practical AI workflow minus the breathless hype.
On the tools front: type-flag brings type safety to CLI parsing (finally!), Toon cuts your LLM prompt tokens in half (your API bill thanks you), qqqa puts a fast stateless LLM right in your shell, Microsoft's SandDance makes data exploration look gorgeous, and Ratatui serves up terminal UIs with that Rust performance we all crave.
Storybook 10 ships 29% lighter and ESM-only, Electron 39 arrives, React Email hits 5.0, and someone finally wrote about Python-to-Node migrations without starting a flame war.
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Find the 11 highlighted links of weeklyfoo #110:
by Xiaoyun Wu
A Case Study in Rewriting a Critical Service in Rust
🚀 Read it!, rust, performance
Conductors to Orchestrators: The Future of Agentic Coding
by Addy Osmani
From micro-manager to macro-manager: coding's asynchronous future
📰 Good to know, ai, workflows
Immutable releases are now generally available
by github.blog
GitHub releases now support immutability, adding a new layer of supply chain security. With immutable releases, assets and tags are protected from tampering after publication, so the software you publish—and your users consume—remains secure and trustworthy.
📰 Good to know, github, releases
by Ahmad Alfy
The Overlooked Power of URLs
📰 Good to know, urls, state
High-Performance Syntax Highlighting with CSS Highlights API
by Pavitra Golchha
The CSS Custom Highlight API is a game-changer for implementing syntax highlighting and other text styling features.
📰 Good to know, css, highlighting
by Ben Stolovitz
I want to take stock of how I'm currently using AI — at least, the cool stuff like LLMs that we call AI.
📰 Good to know, ai
by Hiroki Osame
Typed command-line arguments parser for Node.js
🧰 Tools, typescript, flags, cli
by toonformat.dev
Token-Oriented Object Notation (TOON) – JSON for LLM prompts at half the tokens. Spec, benchmarks & TypeScript implementation.
🧰 Tools, json, llm, prompt
by Mateusz Sójka
Fast, stateless LLM for your shell: qq answers; qa runs commands
🧰 Tools, shell, llm, command
by Microsoft
Visually explore, understand, and present your data.
🧰 Tools, visualization, data, exploration
by ratatui.rs
A Rust crate for cooking up Terminal User Interfaces
🧰 Tools, ui, terminal, rust
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