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weeklyfoo #97 is here: your weekly digest of all webdev news you need to know! This time you'll find 37 valuable links in 6 categories! Enjoy!

🚀 Read it!

Rust, Python, and TypeScript: The new trifecta by Niko Matsakis / rust, python, typescript / 9 min read

📰 Good to know

The Best Advice I Got at PagerDuty: 7 Tips from 7 years at PagerDuty by David Hayes / engineering / 4 min read
Live coding sucks: Why I believe live coding is NOT fair by Mustapha Hadid / career / 7 min read
How we made JSON.stringify more than twice as fast: This will speed up lots of applications ;) by v8 team / javascript / 9 min read
DrawAFish.com Postmortem: Aug 3, 2025 Incident by Alden Hallak / incidents / 8 min read
You Have Too Many Metrics: Metrics can be incredibly powerful. But you have too many of them. by StaySaasy / metrics, engineering / 6 min read
npm trusted publishing with OIDC is generally available: As of today, npm trusted publishing with OpenID Connect (OIDC) is now generally available. by github.blog / npm / 6 min read
What’s New in ViteLand: July 2025 Recap by Michael Dong, Alexander Lichter / vite / 7 min read
No, AI is not Making Engineers 10x as Productive: Curing Your AI 10x Engineer Imposter Syndrome by Colton Voege / ai, engineering / 19 min read
The Multi-Repository TypeScript Problem: Navigating Type Safety Across Service Boundaries by carrick.tools / typescript, monorepos, polyrepos / 12 min read
You can spot base64 encoded JSON, certificates, and private keys: Look out for eyJ...! by Thibault Martin / base64, json / 3 min read
The web isn’t URL-shaped anymore: Optimize the graph! by Jono Alderson / seo, ai / 14 min read
We shouldn’t have needed lockfiles: About the non sense of lockfiles by Nikita Prokopov / lockfiles, npm / 5 min read
Built With Borrowed Hands: I spent two months forcing an unnatural constraint on myself: what if I could only rely on agents writing code for a real-world production service? by David Cramer / ai / 15 min read
Linear sent me down a local-first rabbit hole: I started using Linear a couple of months ago and using it made me go down a technical rabbit hole that changed how I think about web applications. by Jye Cusch / local-first / 10 min read
Notes to myself: 65 Thoughts by Seth Godin / notes, self-reflection / 4 min read
Deploy Hono backends with zero configuration: Vercel now natively supports Hono, a fast, lightweight backend framework built on web standards, with zero-configuration. by Jeff See / hono, vercel / 3 min read

🧰 Tools

tsints: a parser for typescript types, written in typescript types (no js here!) by easrng / typescript
Sidequest: Sidequest is a modern, scalable background job processor for Node.js applications. by sidequestjs.com / nodejs
Express Slow Down: Slow down repeated requests; use as an alternative (or addition) to express-rate-limit by express-rate-limit / express, nodejs
Tambo: Add generative UI components to your AI assistant, copilot, or agent. by tambo.co / ui
Underrated Profitable Websites: Discover simple online business ideas that succeed without by boringwebsites.info / websites, gallery
Progress Tracker: A HTML component to illustrate the steps in a multi step process e.g. a multi step form, a timeline or a quiz. by Nigel O'Toole / ui
Hyvector: SVG editor by Jan Bösenberg / svgs
EvilCharts: A Beautiful & Animated Chart UI Website built on top of shadcn & recharts. by vilcharts.com / ui, charts
pgline: The fastest PostgreSQL JS driver written in TypeScript by stanNthe5 / postgresql
comptime.ts: Compile-time evaluation of expressions for smaller bundles! by comptime.js.org / typescript
Rumicat: Send newsletters without all the poespas. by nternet.company / newsletters
HMPL.js: Server-oriented customizable templating for JavaScript. Alternative to HTMX and Alpine.js. by hmpl-lang.dev / frameworks
MathJax: MathJax source code for version 3 and beyond by mathjax.org / math
AwesomeIndex: Awesome Repositories Search Engine by Will Morrison / awesome, gallery

🎨 Design

Tinted Liquid Glass Should be the Future of User Interfaces on Apple Platforms: I agree. by Parker Ortolani / apple / 5 min read
If the moon were only 1 pixel: A tediously accurate scale model of the solar system by Josh Worth / scale, website / 8 min read
The Age of the Super IC: While everyone’s looking up the ladder, the biggest opportunities are happening at the individual contributor level. by Hardik Pandya / design / 7 min read

📚 Tutorials

Simulating Hand-Drawn Motion with SVG Filters: A practical guide to implementing the boiling line animation effect using SVG filter primitives and JavaScript by Camillo Visini / svgs / 8 min read
Let's Write React Hooks From Scratch: An Array-Focused Intro to Hooks by Corbin Crutchley / react / 7 min read

📺 Videos

How JavaScript Really Evolves: Inside TC39 with Daniel Ehrenberg by Weekly Dev's Brew / javascript

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