urban weekly #93

You're all CTO now - Everyone is a manager of AI-coding agents now which brings some benefits and some downsides. engineering

How has AI impacted engineering leadership in 2025? - Findings from the 2025 LeadDev Engineering Leadership Report show that leadership practices are evolving even as early productivity gains are modest. leadership

Am I online? - A way to provide a simple url to check if the website is up. monitoring 🔥

SVGs that feel like GIFs - It's similar to a GIF but instead of showing moving images, it shows moving SVGs! svgs

Gemini Nano in Chrome 137 - notes for AI Engineers ai, chrome 🔥

Using AI Without Leaving the Terminal - A Guide to llm ai, terminal

We studied 100 dev tool landing pages - Here’s what really works in 2025 landing-pages 🔥

Announcing FOKS, the Federated Open Key Service - FOKS is like Keybase, but fully open-source and federated, with SSO and YubiKey support. federated, open-source, sso, yubikey

Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY does not scale - When a NOTIFY query is issued during a transaction, it acquires a global lock on the entire database (ref) during the commit phase of the transaction, effectively serializing all commits. Under many concurrent writers, this results in immense load and major downtime. postgres

SEO Is Dead. Long Live GEO. - How to win in the era of LLMs, AI Overviews, and GEO — before your traffic disappears seo, geo, marketing, ai 🔥

5 things I learned from 5 years at Vercel - After five years at Vercel, I just finished my last week. What a ride! vercel, career

Modern JavaScript in NGINX - QuickJS Engine Support for njs nginx, javascript 🔥

Local-first software - You own your data, in spite of the cloud local-first 🔥

Backlog.md - A tool for managing project collaboration between humans and AI Agents in a git ecosystem tasks, projects 🔥

OpenCode - AI coding agent, built for the terminal. ai, agent

OmniTools - Self-hosted collection of powerful web-based tools for everyday tasks. No ads, no tracking, just fast, accessible utilities right from your browser! tools

asciiflow - ASCIIFlow is a client-side only web based application for drawing ASCII diagrams. ascii 🔥

BNA UI - Expo, React Native components library ui, react-native

jsonrepair - Repair invalid JSON documents json

grammY - grammY is a Telegram Bot Framework for TypeScript and JavaScript. telegram, bot, framework

0x - single-command flamegraph profiling performance

Lynx - Empower the web community and invite more to build across platforms framework

Monorail - Turn any CSS keyframe animation into an interactive graph css, animations

Vecto3d - A super simple tool to convert your SVG's to 3D models. svg, 3d

URLtoAny - All the URL conversion tools at your fingertips. 100% FREE and easy to use! Convert URLs to Markdown, PDF, Text, images and more with just a few clicks. url 🔥

mcp-b - Model Context Protocol for the Browser mcp

TSTyche - Everything You Need for Type Testing. typescript, types, tests

Ikiform - An open-source alternative to Google Forms, designed to help you create beautiful forms effortlessly. forms

Pangolin - Tunneled Reverse Proxy Server with Identity and Access Control and Dashboard UI proxy

Cactus - Cross-platform framework for deploying LLM/VLM/TTS models locally on smartphones. llms, mobile

Flux Kontext Dev Online Tool - Experience the power of AI-driven image editing instantly. Upload your image, describe your changes, and watch flux kontext dev transform your vision into reality. ai, flux, images

BrowserOS - BrowserOS is an open-source agentic web browser. ai, browsers

cRonstrue - JavaScript library that translates Cron expressions into human readable descriptions cron, parsing

zshy - Bundler-free build tool for TypeScript libraries. Powered by tsc. typescript

Trustnomics - How trust became the new currency of brand growth trust

The Gooey Effect - Gooey Menu Using CSS and SVG Filters css, svgs 🔥

Build your first MCP Server - Tutorial for Beginners mcp 🔥

Why Is Everyone Talking About Lynx? The Architect’s Breakdown - Lynx, a new cross-platform stack adopted by the TikTok app that empowers teams to ship truly native UIs to mobile and web from a single codebase using their existing web skills like CSS and React, has recently been open sourced. lynx, framework, open-source

Building Faster with AI - Why execution speed matters more than ever, how agentic workflows are changing what startups can build, and why concreteness beats vagueness when turning ideas into products. ai

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Published on 2025-07-14, last updated on 2025-07-21 by Adam

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Adam Urban is fullstack engineer, loves serverless and generative art, and is building side projects like weeklyfoo.com, flethy.com and diypunks.xyz in his free time.