Stay ahead in web development: latest news, tools, and insights #55

weeklyfoo #55 is here: your weekly digest of all webdev news you need to know! This time you'll find 32 valuable links in 5 categories! Enjoy!

🚀 Read it!

• The Senior Shortcut: Simple tasks can be solved by AI, so there's no need to hire Junior devs anymore. w00t / leadership, engineering / 7 min read

📰 Good to know

• Finish your projects: Don’t let fear, or that last 10%, hold you back. / side-projects / 14 min read
• Liskov’s Gun: The parallel evolution of React and Web Components: Wow, what a blog post! Entertaining, but very long. There's an epub version available. / react, web-components / 58 min read
• Lodash Replacements: This is intended to be a complete catalog of all the functions that Lodash provides, along with a description of how one would go about doing the same thing in plain JavaScript. / lodash / 1 min read
• Code review antipatterns: Collection of anti-ptterns Simon observed during code reviews / engineering / 14 min read
• Splitting engineering teams into defense and offense: Interesting approach for a very small team. / engineering / 5 min read
• How I experience web today: A visual representation how most of the web pages feel nowadays. / web / 1 min read
• An Engineer’s Checklist of Logging Best Practices: I'm pretty sure you read these best practices a lot of times. Time to read another one! / logging / 12 min read
• The internet’s homepage: Do you remember Digg? Get some sweet memories reading this article. / digg / 23 min read
• An overloaded Developer: Not setting a method parameter defaults to undefined in js. / javascript / 4 min read
• An Abridged History of Safari Showstoppers: iOS Safari is more than an inconvenience for developers, it's the fundamental reason interoperability has been stymied in mobile ecosystems; frequent showstopping bugs, a large patch gap, and lack of competing engines ensures the web is not a credible competitor to native. Here are the receipts to prove it. / safari / 44 min read
• The story of web framework Hono, from the creator of Hono: Hono is a fast, lightweight web framework that runs anywhere JavaScript does, built with Web Standards. / hono / 18 min read
• JavaScript Algorithms and Data Structures: Algorithms and data structures implemented in JavaScript with explanations and links to further readings / javascript, algorithms / 18 min read
• Manage your priorities and energy.: Former Uber manager describes his way to prioritize topics. / engineering / 14 min read

🧰 Tools

• Font Sensei: Font sensei is a google fonts picker categorized by tag names / fonts
• Gosub: Gateway to Optimized Searching and Unlimited Browsing / rust, browser
• ARIA DevTools: Easily spot missing ARIA labels, misused ARIA roles, and incomplete keyboard support in your web applications. / chrome, a11y
• clipscreen: Mirror a portion of your screen to a virtual monitor for easier screen sharing. / screen
• UI Builder: Build a website visually. / low-code
• Formbricks: Harvest user-insights, build irresistible experiences. / forms, surveys
• pretty-print: An Effect library that produces the string representation of any value, in Node or the browser. / formatting
• Kaiban: KaibanJS is a JavaScript-native framework for building and managing multi-agent systems with a Kanban-inspired approach. / ai
• Jeasx: The power of server side rendering with the ease of JSX. / frameworks, ssr
• cf-doh: Typed Cloudflare DNS Over HTTP Resolver / dns
• NumberFlow: A React component to transition, format, and localize numbers. / react
• kloudlite: RemoteLocal Environments to build distributed applications. / infra
• TinyWidgets: A collection of tiny, reusable, UI components — wrapped in a helpful app layout with header, side bar, dark mode, and more. / ui
• quickjs-cross-compiler: Cross compile QuickJS interpreter & compiler - Generate static binaries from JS scripts / compiler, javascript
• GitHub Actions Price Calculator: Get a better understanding about what your Github actions cost. / github

🎨 Design

• Inside How Stripe Crafts Quality Products: A deep dive into Stripe’s rituals and principles to produce surprisingly great work / stripe / 15 min read

📚 Tutorials

• Drag to Select: Read the journey of Joshua on how to implement a way to select many objects via drag. / drag / 32 min read
• How to Build an Image Search Application With OpenAI CLIP & PostgreSQL in JavaScript: Using OpenAI and Postgres / openai, postgres / 30 min read

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