Posted on Nov 3 • Originally published at weeklyfoo.com

Stay ahead in web development: latest news, tools, and insights #109

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weeklyfoo #109 is here: your weekly digest of all webdev news you need to know! This time you'll find 40 valuable links in 6 categories! Enjoy!

🚀 Read it!

Kafka is fast: I'll use Postgres by TopicPartition / kafka, postgres, database / 36 min read

📰 Good to know

Mistakes I see engineers making in their code reviews: In the last two years, code review has gotten much more important. by Sean Goedecke / engineering, reviews / 12 min read
GenAI Image Showdown: A comparison of various SOTA generative image models on specific prompts and challenges with a strong emphasis placed on adherence. by Shaun Pedicini / sota, llm, ai, images / 0 min read
Scripts I wrote that I use all the time: In my decade-plus of maintaining my dotfiles, I've written a lot of little shell scripts. Here's a big list of my personal favorites. by Evan Hahn / scripts, cli / 12 min read
Advice for New Principal Tech ICs: i.e., Notes to Myself by Eugene Yan / principal, engineering / 16 min read
Always Be Ranking: Anytime you’re making a list at work, rank it. by Jake Worth / engineering, career / 4 min read
The Search Problem: Why Your Computer Finds Things Faster Than You Do by Deyaa Al-Khatib / search, trees, algorithms, engineering / 17 min read
Why IP address truncation fails at anonymization: Truncated IP addresses are still personal data under GDPR. by Frank Denis / gdpr, privacy / 13 min read
What are the 2025 benchmarks for the key DORA metrics?: Only 16% of teams deploy on-demand while 24% deploy less than monthly, revealing a stark divide in delivery maturity. by Lizzie Matusov / dora, engineering, performance / 5 min read
A Brief History of Domains: This year, dot com turned 40. by dotcom.press / dns, domains / 13 min read
I Built the Same App 10 Times: Evaluating Frameworks for Mobile Performance by Loren Stewart / comparison, performance / 49 min read
Optimizing repos for AI: Useful strategies by Tom / ai, repo / 4 min read
The real problem with AI coding: Tech debt and comprehension debt by Paul Sangle-Ferriere / ai, engineering / 5 min read
Octoverse: A new developer joins GitHub every second as AI leads TypeScript to number 1 by github.blog / github, trends, typescript / 55 min read
ViteConf 2025 Recap: Welcome to a special edition of What’s new in ViteLand! by Alexander Lichter / vite / 9 min read
Write Code That Runs in the Browser, or Write Code the Browser Runs: There’s a big difference between A) making suggestions for the browser, and B) being its micromanager. by Jim Nielsen / browser, javascript / 4 min read
CSS Animations That Leverage the Parent-Child Relationship: Modern CSS has great ways to position and move a group of elements relative to each other, such as anchor positioning. by Preethi / css / 6 min read

🧰 Tools

Shadcn Themer: Shadcn Themer is a web application that lets you to create, customize, and share themes for shadcn/ui by shadcnthemer.com / shadcn
oxdraw: Diagram as Code Tool Written in Rust with Draggable Editing by Rohan Adwankar / draw
Semantic Art: Instead of another prompt bar for generation, this is an art search engine that invites you to search with your imagination. by semantic.art / art, search
React Grab: Grab any element on in your app and give it to Cursor, Claude Code, etc by Aiden Bai / react, ai
FTA: Rust-based static analysis for TypeScript projects by Sam Brown / typescript, analysis
GPUI Component: Rust GUI components for building fantastic cross-platform desktop application by using GPUI. by Longbridge / rust, ui
Awesome Node.js: Delightful Node.js packages and resources by Sindre Sorhus / nodejs
Marko: A declarative, HTML-based language that makes building web apps fun by markojs.com / framework, web
Dexto: The Intelligence Layer for AI agents. Connect your models, tools, and data to create agentic apps that can think, act and talk to you. by dexto.ai / ai, agents
Butter: A Cache For Your LLM by butter.dev / llm, ai, cache
Typing SVG Generator: Typing animation with SVGs by whiteSHADOW1234 / svg
Dev TUI: A Swiss-army app for developers by Stanislav (Stas) Katkov / cli, tools
Social Anayzer: API, CLI, and Web App for analyzing and finding a person's profile in 1000 social media \ websites by qeeqbox / search, profiles
emoji-regex: A regular expression to match all Emoji-only symbols as per the Unicode Standard. by Mathias Bynens / emoji, regex
pgfeaturediff: Compare PostgreSQL features between versions by Sebastian Steenssøe / postgres
Slim Select: Slim advanced select dropdown by Brian Voelker / ui, select
spoilerjs: A framework-agnostic web component for creating beautiful spoiler effects with Telegram-inspired particle animations. by Shajid Hasan / javascript, animations

🤪 Fun

Morwse: Real-time multi-user morse code collaboration tool by Noam Miko Tamir / audio, morse / 1 min read
Bad UX World Cup: Congratulations to the bad ux world champion by badux.lol / ux / 5 min read

📚 Tutorials

Section Layout: Building a typical section design with modern CSS. by Ahmad Shadeed / css / 15 min read

📺 Videos

The Future of Astro: ViteConf 2025 by Matt Kane / astro
Why he's the most trusted man in design: This is a series about design, creativity and the people behind dope work. by Tommy Geoco / design
Use Web APIs to Build Browser AI Apps: CascadiaJS by Phil Nash / ai