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Stay ahead in web development: latest news, tools, and insights #49

weeklyfoo #49 is here: your weekly digest of all webdev news you need to know! This time you'll find 42 valuable links in 7 categories! Enjoy!

🚀 Read it!

  • Founder Mode: General assumption: the management of a startup is changing towards manager mode - the well-known way of managing and taught in business schools. Founder mode is less known and understood, but may be more effective. / startups, leadership / 7 min read
  • Why I still self host my servers (and what I've recently learned): I self host everything but email. / independance / 27 min read

📰 Good to know


🧰 Tools

  • QRSVG: QRSVG is a small JavaScript project to render a two-dimensional bitmask (mostly assumed to be a QR code) to an SVG element as a collection of SVG paths with defined purposes. / qr, svg
  • Algora TV: Open source Twitch for developers / streaming
  • StatiCrypt: Password protect a static HTML page, decrypted in-browser in JS with no dependency. No server logic needed. / encryption
  • Huetone: A tool to create accessible color systems / colors
  • Badge Maker Lite: A lightweight, free tool to easily create and customize SVG badges for use in GitHub READMEs, CI/CD pipelines, and more. Save and load configurations via GitHub Gists. / svgs
  • yocto spinner: Tiny terminal spinner / cli, spinner
  • empathic: A set of small Node.js utilities to understand your pathing needs. / tools
  • Pines UI: Pines is a library of animations, sliders, tooltips, accordions, modals, and more! It's a set of UI elements that can be copy and pasted into any Alpine and Tailwind projects. / ui, alpine, tailwind
  • Realtime Colors: Visualize Your Colors & Fonts On a Real Site / colors
  • Server Mono: Server Mono is a typeface inspired by typewriters, Apple's San Francisco Mono, ASCII art, command-line interfaces, and programming tools. / fonts
  • Avatars: Avatars is a collection of diverse free avatar images from across the web, designed to add personality to your projects. With a vast selection of vibrant illustrations, you can enhance your projects in seconds. / avatars
  • Midday v1: An open-source starter kit based on Midday. / starter-kit
  • Srcbook: TypeScript notebook for rapid prototyping / typescript
  • Logggos: Discover inspiring logos sorted by industries, themes, typography style, branding color and more. / logos
  • jsdiff: A javascript text differencing implementation. / javascript
  • FetchFox: A Chrome extension to extract any data from any website / chrome, ai

🎨 Design

  • Reducing UX debt (or die trying): Product people should be less concerned with delivering new features (maximising) than with reducing UX debt (optimising). Poor, unresolved user experience is what drives away customers and destroys team motivation and commitment. / ui, ux / 11 min read

🤪 Fun

  • Printing Money: Another nice illustration by Neal. / money / 1 min read

📚 Tutorials


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