Stay ahead in web development: latest news, tools, and insights #64

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weeklyfoo #64 is here: your weekly digest of all webdev news you need to know! This time you'll find 38 valuable links in 8 categories! Enjoy!

🚀 Read it!

• React Like a Pro: 10 Things I Regret Not Knowing Earlier by Ndeye Fatou Diop / react, performance / 7 min read
• Some of My Favorite Things – Postgres Queries: Very useful sql queries to check your postgres database. by Shane Borden / postgres / 14 min read

📰 Good to know

• Map of Github: 400k projects visualized on a map by Andrei Kashcha / github / 1 min read
• State of Node.js Performance 2024: This article exclusively compares Node.js versions without drawing parallels to other JavaScript runtimes. The intent is to highlight the platform's internal progress—its performance gains, regressions, and the factors driving these changes. by Rafael Gonzaga, Lizz Parody / nodejs, performance / 16 min read
• 15 Best Leadership Books: That made a better leader from me. by Milan Milanović / leadership / 28 min read
• Founder Mode and the Art of Mythmaking: What a read! by Charity Majors / rant, airbnb / 41 min read
• After 3 Years, I Failed. Here's All My Startup's Code.: And by all, I mean everything: core product, failed pivots, miscellaneous scripts, deployment configurations, marketing website, and more. Hopefully the codebase is interesting or potentially helpful to somebody out there! by Dylan Huang / startups / 4 min read
• Warp for Windows: The modern terminal for developer productivity is coming to Windows soon. Be the first to know when it’s available to download. by warp.dev / terminal, windows / 4 min read
• State of JavaScript 2024: Results are out! by stateofjs.com / javascript / 3 min read
• CSS Wishlist 2025: CSS Wishlist time! by Adam Argyle / css / 1 min read
• Git - Beyond the Basics: Useful advanced git (and github) commands by Anders Sundman / git / 11 min read

🧰 Tools

• nuqs: Type-safe search params state manager for React frameworks - Like useState, but stored in the URL query string. by 47ng / react
• OG Image Maker: Template-based og image creator. by Eddy Vinck / images
• SVG Repo: 500.000+ Open-licensed SVG Vector and Icons by svgrepo.com / svgs, icons
• Hero Patterns: A collection of repeatable SVG background patterns for you to use on your web projects. by Steve Schoger / svgs, patterns
• Background Image Remover: Upload your image and let our AI remove the background instantly. Perfect for professional photos, product images, and more. by Addy Osmani / ai, background-remover, images
• bolt.diy: Prompt, run, edit, and deploy full-stack web applications using any LLM you want! by Stackblitz / ai, llm
• Leapcell: Build, Deploy, and Scale Your Applications with Ease. Experience Serverless Web Hosting, Serverless Redis, Asynchronous Tasks, and Robust Observability—all in one seamless platform. by leapcell.io / infra, serverless
• IsometricShot: Create Isometric Screenshots by isometricshot.com / images, isometric
• OpenAuth: Universal, standards-based auth provider. by openauth.js.org / auth
• Genezio: Experience the autoscaling of near-zero latency serverless without rewriting your code. by genezio.com / infra, serverless
• PixiJS: Create beautiful digital content with the fastest, most flexible 2D WebGL renderer. by pixijs.com / images, webgl
• Arcjet JS: Bot detection, rate limiting, email validation, attack protection, data redaction for Node.js, Next.js, Deno, Bun, Remix, SvelteKit, NestJS. by arcjet.com / headers, http
• yadm: Yet Another Dotfiles Manager by yadm.io / dotfiles
• Musoq: SQL Syntax without any database by Jakub Puchała / search, sql
• Superhero: Curated collection of beautiful website hero sections. by supahero.io / hero, ui, gallery
• JerryScript: Ultra-lightweight JavaScript engine for the Internet of Things. by jerryscript.net / javascript, iot
• Base UI: Unstyled UI components for building accessible web apps and design systems. by base-ui.com / ui
• Vivus: JavaScript library to make drawing animation on SVG by maxwellito / svgs
• ni: Use the right package manager by Anthony Fu / npm
• Groq Appgen: Build a micro-app at Groq speed by groqlabs.com / groq, ai

🎨 Design

• Why I’m excited about text-box-trim as a designer: Json writes about the possibilities of text-box-trim in future! by Jason Bradberry / css / 13 min read
• Logo Artists Reinterpreted 38 Of The Most Recognizable Logos With A Single Unbroken Line: French designer Stephane Leopold, co-founder of Loooop Studio, reimagines iconic logos in his project One Line Famous Logos, using a single, unbroken line to distill their essence. by Stephane Leopold / logos / 5 min read

🐱‍💻 Hacker News

• SWEs how do you future-proof your career in light of LLMs?: LLMs are becoming a part of software engineering career. by throwaway_43793 / ask-hn / 456 min read

🤪 Fun

• Douglas Crockford Is Not Your Dad: I know what you've been told. Douglas Crockford said that JSON can't have comments. And you accepted that. Understandable mistake; we've all been there. by Phil Hagelberg / json / 2 min read
• Library of Babel: At present it contains all possible pages of 3200 characters, about 10^4677 books. by Jonathan Basile / characters / 1 min read

📚 Tutorials

• Build an API to Keep Your Marketing Emails Out of Spam: Use Apache SpamAssassin to check your email content. by H4cker / emails, spam / 7 min read

📺 Videos

• Getting to Two Million Users as a One Woman Dev Team: Brighton Ruby by Nadia Odunayo / startups

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