Stay ahead in web development: latest news, tools, and insights #127

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weeklyfoo #127 is here: your weekly digest of all webdev news you need to know! This time you'll find 35 valuable links in 5 categories! Enjoy!

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  AI Tooling for Software Engineers in 2026: Claude Code dominates tool usage, leaders are more positive about AI than engineers, staff+ engineers are the biggest users of AI agents, and more. Exclusive data and analysis from 900+ respondents by Gergely Orosz, Elin Nilsson / ai, report / 18 min read
  

📰 Good to know

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  How I built a sub-500ms latency voice agent from scratch: I’ve spent the last six months working on a startup, building agent prototypes for one of the largest consumer packaged goods companies in the world. by Nick Tikhonov / ai, voice / 15 min read
  


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  How I run 4–8 parallel coding agents with tmux and Markdown specs: I’ve been running parallel coding agents with a lightweight setup for a few months now with tmux, Markdown files, bash aliases, and six slash commands. by Manuel Schipper / engineering, ai / 14 min read
  


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  How to write a good spec for AI agents: How to structure, plan, and iterate for high-performance coding agents by Addy Osmani / ai, engineering / 37 min read
  


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  Why is WebAssembly a second-class language on the web?: WebAssembly has come a long way since its first release in 2017. by Ryan Hunt / wasm / 17 min read
  


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  How to Kill the Code Review: Human-written code died in 2025. Code reviews will die in 2026. by Ankit Jain / ai, engineering, quality / 11 min read
  


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  Nobody Gets Promoted for Simplicity: I think there’s something quietly screwing up a lot of engineering teams. by Matheus Lima / engineering, leadership / 9 min read
  


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  We cut Node.js' Memory in half: V8, the C++ engine under the proverbial hood of JavaScript, includes a feature many Node.js developers aren’t familiar with. by Matteo Collina / nodejs, performance / 1 min read
  


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  SolidJS v2.0.0 Beta: The Suspense is Over by Ryan Carniato / solidjs / 8 min read
  


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  A GitHub Issue Title Compromised 4,000 Developer Machines: On February 17, 2026, someone published [email protected] to npm. by Grith AI / cline, npm, security / 9 min read
  


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  Services: The New Software by Julien Bek / ai, services / 8 min read
  


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  Introducing GPT‑5.4: Designed for professional work by OpenAI / ai / 1 min read
  


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  Seven Years to TypeScript: Migrating 11,000 Files at Patreon by Patreon / typescript, migration / 1 min read
  


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  Package Managers Need to Cool Down: This post was requested by Seth Larson, who asked if I could do a breakdown of dependency cooldowns across package managers. by Andrew Nesbitt / packages, security / 9 min read
  

🧰 Tools

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  OpenCode: The open source coding agent. by opencode.ai / coding, agent
  


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  NullClaw: Fastest, smallest, and fully autonomous AI assistant infrastructure written in Zig by NullClaw / ai, assistant
  


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  Superset: IDE for the AI Agents Era - Run an army of Claude Code, Codex, etc. on your machine by superset.sh / agents, ai, terminal
  


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  Expo Skills: A collection of AI agent skills for working with Expo projects and Expo Application Services by Expo / skills, ai
  


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  giggles: batteries-included react framework for building rich terminal apps by atib jawad zion / react, framework
  


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  Shiki: A beautiful yet powerful syntax highlighter by shiki.style / highlighter
  


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  EZTrimmer: Professional tools to cut videos and trim clips instantly in your browser. by eztrimmer.io / videos
  


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  All SVG Icons: Browse and download 250,000+ free SVG icons from 220 carefully curated icon libraries. by allsvgicons.com / svg, icons
  


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  Google Workspace CLI: One command-line tool for Drive, Gmail, Calendar, Sheets, Docs, Chat, Admin, and more. Dynamically built from Google Discovery Service. by Google / google, cli
  


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  Paperclip: Open-source orchestration for zero-human companies by paperclip.ing / orchestration, ai
  


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  You Need to Rewrite Your CLI for AI Agents: I built a CLI for Google Workspace — agents first. by Justin Poehnelt / cli, ai
  


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  Locutus: Bringing stdlibs of other programming languages to TypeScript for fun by locutus.io / stdlibs, typescript
  


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  Colorflow: Advanced Mesh Gradient Generator & Editor by ls.graphics / mesh, gradients
  


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  VMPrint: A pure-JS, tiny typesetting engine with bit-perfect PDF output on everything—from Cloudflare Workers to the browser. No more Headless Chrome to just print text. AND -- try the static demos on the home page below and see for yourself. by Cosmic Iron / typescript, pdf
  


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  Dinero.js: Create, calculate, and format money in JavaScript and TypeScript by Sarah Dayan / money, finance
  


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  Uptime Kuma: A fancy self-hosted monitoring tool by Louis Lam / monitoring, self-hosted
  


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  React AwesomeSlider: A performant, lightweight React slider/carousel for media and content transitions, featuring 60fps animations, modular styling, optional HOCs, and fullpage navigation utilities. by Rafael Caferati / react, slider
  


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  8bitcn/ui: A set of retro-designed, accessible components and a code distribution platform. Open Source. Open Code. by OrcDev / ui, retro
  

🤪 Fun

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  WarGames Terminal Fonts: On watching the movie WarGames I saw all of the on-screen text terminal displays and thought to myself that there is sufficient information present on-screen to produce a replica font on my computer. by Michael Walden / fonts / 22 min read
  

📺 Videos

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  The new era of design at Stripe: A few weeks ago, Stripe launched their new site (https://stripe.com) and reminded everyone who the 🐐 of web design is... by Katie Dill / design
  


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  Backlog.md: The simplest project management tool for the AI Era by Alex Gavrilescu / ai
  

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