weeklyfoo #8 is here: your weekly digest of all webdev news you need to know! This time you’ll find 25 valuable links in 3 categories! Enjoy!
📰 Good to know
- Microsoft hires former OpenAI CEO Sam Altman: What a rollercoaster story / microsoft, altman / 7 min read
- The “best” way to manage icons in React.js: Never heard of svg sprites before, but sounds very useful! / svg / 8 min read
- Friends Don’t Let Friends Make Bad Graphs: Friends don’t let friends make certain types of data visualization - What are they and why are they bad. / graphs / 17 min read
- Meta’s new AI milestone: Emu Video and Emu Edit set to revolutionize text-to-video generation and image editing: Emu Video / emu / 6 min read
- An Interactive Guide to CSS Grid: Beautiful introduction to css grids. / css, grids / 21 min read
- Email obfuscation: What still works in 2023?: Simple tweaks help a lot. / email / 11 min read
- Software you are thankful for: Users list of useful software they use / Software / 64 min read
🧰 Tools
- Victor Mono: Programming font / fonts
- libav.js: This is a compilation of the libraries associated with handling audio and video in ffmpeg—libavformat, libavcodec, libavfilter, libavutil, libswresample, and libswscale—for emscripten, and thus the web. / wasm
- SVG Icons CLI: Automatically generate an SVG sprite sheet / svg, svg-sprite
- PDFKit: A JavaScript PDF generation library for Node and the browser. / pdf, node
- github-script: Write workflows scripting the GitHub API in JavaScript / github actions
- RevealJS: Presentation with html / slide decks, presentations
- linkinator: Scurry around your site and find all those broken links. / links, urls
- Autodraw: Draw something and an AI tries to replace it by a good drawing / ai, draw
- Typist: Tiptap based rich text editor / editors, react
- Starlight: Everything you need to build a stellar documentation website. Fast, accessible, and easy-to-use. / docs, astro
- Spectral.js: Spectral.js is a paint like color mixing library. / colors
- Piscina: A fast, efficient Node.js Worker Thread Pool implementation / nodejs, threads
- 12ft: Remove popups, banners, and ads from any website. / browsing
- wevm: TypeScript tooling for Ethereum / eth, typescript
- Logo Diffusion: Create Logos in Seconds With Generative A.I / ai, logos
🎨 Design
- The Looking Glass: How to tell if work is beautiful: What is beauty? Why is nature beautiful? The case for making beautiful things / beautiful / 7 min read
- The best web design inspiration: Browse the best of the internet. Hand-picked and updated daily. / websites / 13 min read
- Inter 4.0: Next version of the popular font. / fonts / 28 min read