Stay ahead in web development: latest news, tools, and insights #45

weeklyfoo #45 is here: your weekly digest of all webdev news you need to know! This time you'll find 25 valuable links in 6 categories! Enjoy!

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How to be more concise: The truth about why it’s so hard to be concise, and 9 tactics I use to tighten my communication / productivity / 16 min read

We ran out of columns - The best, worst codebase: Oh the merchants2 table? Yeah, we ran out of columns on merchants, so we made merchants2 xD / engineering / 11 min read
HONC Out Loud: The Modern Guide to Building a Typescript JSON API / hono, drizzle, cloudflare, neon / 10 min read
I made a huge mistake in becoming a Engineering Manager: Read about experiences of becoming a manager and switching back to an IC role. / career / 1 min read
Ecosystem Performance: e18e (Ecosystem Performance) is an initiative to connect the folks and projects working to improve JS packages performance. / ecosystem, javascript / 1 min read
Modern Git Commands and Features You Should Be Using: Didn't know about sparse checkout for example. / git / 7 min read

sqlite-vec: A vector search SQLite extension that runs anywhere! / databases
arrival-time: Simple and powerful progress time estimation (ETA) for JavaScript / utils
iso20022.js: A package to create and manage ISO20022 XML files to create and receive payments. / iso
follow: Next generation information browser / rss
easy-template-x: Generate docx documents from templates, in Node or in the browser. / docx
Fair Source: Software sharing for modern businesses. Engage the developer community with your core products. / source-control
Whirl: CSS loading animations with minimal effort! / css, loading
Pigsty: Battery-Included PostgreSQL Distro as a Free RDS Alternative / databases
CSS Editor: Online editor to play around with CSS. / css
Spectrum: Free vector shapes / vector, shapes
Pines UI Library: Pines is a library of animations, sliders, tooltips, accordions, modals, and more! It's a set of UI elements that can be copy and pasted into any Alpine and Tailwind projects. / ui
tschema: A tiny (444b) utility to build JSON schema types. / typescript, json
CSS Spring Easing Generator: Playground to generate spring easing. / css
Orbit: The CSS radial UI composer framework / css
Public Work: Public Work is a search engine for public domain content. Explore 100,000+ copyright-free images from The MET, New York Public Library, and other sources. / images

Desigeist: Daily design gems curated by Pablo Stanley / gems / 1 min read
Admire The Web: Daily web design inspiration from around the web specialising in minimal, clean and responsive websites. / inspiration / 3 min read

WhenFS: A FUSE filesystem for your Google calendar. There could also be some serious use cases for this. / storage / 6 min read

using your Kindle as an e-ink monitor: There are so many opportunities with that approach. / kindle / 5 min read

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