Stay ahead in web development: latest news, tools, and insights #66

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weeklyfoo #66 is here: your weekly digest of all webdev news you need to know! This time you'll find 36 valuable links in 6 categories! Enjoy!

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• Software Design is Knowledge Building: I think every software engineer knows a similar story. Very well written and on point! by Facundo Olano / engineering / 11 min read
• Collection of insane and fun facts about SQLite: 24 insane facts! by Avinash Sajjanshetty / sqlite / 7 min read

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? Good to know

• How I run LLMs locally: A HN user asked me0 how I run LLMs locally with some specific questions, I'm documenting it here for everyone. by Abishek Muthian / llms / 8 min read
• Ten things in tech I found joy in during 2024: Neil Brown posted about what brought him joy in computers and the Internet this year. I agree that it could be a cathartic exercise among the gloom and doom, so I thought I’d give it a shot as well. by Ruben Schade / recap / 7 min read
• People who are going to change the world: Including links to personal websites a twitter profile. by Alexey Guzey / people / 3 min read
• My default apps of 2024: Last year I was the 27th of four hundred and freaking eight people to write about their default apps, and I though it would be fun to turn this into a tradition and revisit the list to see if anything has changed since last year. by Matt Birchler / engineering / 6 min read
• Bun and S3: Bun gets first-class support for S3. Upload, download, stream, and presign with 0 dependencies by @bunjavascript / bun, s3 / 0 min read
• What Is a dependency?: For whatever reason, I’ve been thinking about dependencies lately. by Alex Kladov / dependencies, engineering / 3 min read
• If You Don’t Like Sales, Don’t Start a Company: Get comfortable with this reality. by Hunter Walk / startups / 5 min read
• Passkey technology is elegant, but it’s most definitely not usable security: Just in time for holiday tech-support sessions, here's what to know about passkeys. by Dan Goodin / passkeys / 25 min read
• Mistakes engineers make in large established codebases: Large established codebases are very different to side projects. by Sean Goedecke / engineering / 8 min read
• What Will Happen In 2025: 13 predictions by avc by avc.xyz / predictions / 3 min read
• How To Manage Flaky Tests: Many projects suffer from the problem of flaky tests: tests that pass or fail non-deterministically. These cause confusion, slow development cycles, and endless arguments between individuals and teams in an organization. by Li Haoyi / tests, engineering / 20 min read
• I keep turning my Google Sheets into phone-friendly webapps, and I can’t stop: How I tackled takeout, spices, and meal ideas with spreadsheets and Glide. by Kevin Purdy / apps / 15 min read
• Notes on the new Deepseek v3: Is it truly better than GPT-4o and 3.5 Sonnet? by Sunil Kumar Dash / llms / 14 min read
• Scaling from a Billion to a Million to One: Success leads to on-premise demands sometimes. by Rogério Chaves / engineering, startups / 10 min read
• How I Use Claude: Claude is Anthropic’s AI, like ChatGPT but more capable. I was a casual user until the 23 October release (informally “Claude 3.6”), when it crossed a quality threshold I didn’t even know was there. It is really, really good. I have been using it a lot more since, and I got curious as to how much more. by Fernando Borretti / ai / 7 min read
• Rules for Writing Software Tutorials: Most software tutorials are tragically flawed. by Michael Lynch / docs, tutorials / 27 min read
• The Productivity apps I use in 2024: Always worth it reading these kind of lists like this one from Cassidy Williams by Cassidy Williams / productivity / 8 min read
• Formatting dates and times in JavaScript with Temporal and the Internationalization API: The Temporal API is a much improved successor to the much-hated JavaScript Date object. .toString() returns Temporal dates and times in the ISO 8601 format. by Ollie Williams / javascript, dates / 8 min read
• Motion examples: Great if you want to start with motion! by motion.dev / animations / 1 min read

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? Tools

• Watcher: Minimal open source Screen-Time Tracker for Linux by Vaishnav Deore / tracking, linux
• Roadmap UI: Composable React components for building interactive roadmaps. by roadmap-ui.com / ui
• FooAPI: Dummy data for your projects, fast and simple. Users, products, posts, comments and more! by fooapi.com / api, fake-data
• Tork: A distributed workflow engine by tork.run / workflows
• Wirehook: No-nonsense stateless webhook tester by Arik Cohen / webhooks
• CodeGate: CodeGen Privacy and Security by codegate.ai / ai
• API Parrot: API Parrot is the tool specifically designed to reverse engineer the HTTP APIs of any website. by apiparrot.com / scraping, http
• Pixels Market: 15,000 free illustrations to power up your designs by pixels.market / gallery
• Zasper: Supercharged IDE for Data Science by zasper.io / ide
• BenchJS: Browser-based JavaScript benchmarking tool. by Andrei Neculaesei / javascript
• tailwindcss-motion: tailwindcss-motion is a Tailwind CSS Plugin made at RomboHQ. It’s a simple, yet powerful, animation library with a simple syntax. by rombo.co/tailwind / tailwind
• Midscene: Automate browser actions, extract data, and perform assertions using AI. It offers JavaScript SDK, Chrome extension, and support for scripting in YAML. by midscenejs.com / ai, scraping

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? Design

• Best Data Visualization Projects of 2024: Many datasets were analyzed and many charts were made this year. If I liked a project, it was on FlowingData. But only a handful can be the best. These are my favorite data visualization projects from 2024. by Nathan Yau / visualizations / 5 min read

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? Tutorials

• Building scalable ML workflows: Using Tork as workflow engine. by Arik / tork, machine-learning / 10 min read

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? Videos

• 5 great design films you should watch right now: Epic and influential designers, both real and imagined, hit the screen. by Nate Berg / design

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