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Sean Goedecke finally said it: five comments max per review. This is the code review reality check every team needs! Meanwhile, Evan Hahn distilled a decade of dotfiles into the scripts that actually get used daily, and Loren Stewart delivered the framework comparison we've been waiting for—39x bundle size differences with real data, no hype.
Also in this issue: Tom shows you how to optimize repos for AI without the fluff (just repeated commands and docs/ organization that actually works), Paul Sangle-Ferriere coins the perfect term "comprehension debt" (you save time upfront but pay it back with interest when debugging), and GitHub's Octoverse confirms it—TypeScript just overtook Python and JavaScript in the biggest language shift in a decade.
On the tools front: React Grab lets you drag elements straight into Cursor or Claude (the developer UX innovation we needed!), FTA brings Rust-level performance to TypeScript analysis, Dev TUI becomes the one terminal app to rule them all, and spoilerjs delivers Telegram-inspired particle animations that are just... chef's kiss.
TopicPartition drops comprehensive Postgres vs Kafka benchmarks proving the Small Data movement has legs, Ahmad Shadeed demonstrates modern CSS layout with container queries and subgrid working in harmony, and Bad UX World Cup celebrates terrible design so we can laugh at the pain.
Enjoy!
Find the 13 highlighted links of weeklyfoo #109:
Kafka is fast
by TopicPartition
I'll use Postgres
🚀 Read it!, kafka, postgres, database
Mistakes I see engineers making in their code reviews
by Sean Goedecke
In the last two years, code review has gotten much more important.
📰 Good to know, engineering, reviews
Scripts I wrote that I use all the time
by Evan Hahn
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.
📰 Good to know, scripts, cli
I Built the Same App 10 Times
by Loren Stewart
Evaluating Frameworks for Mobile Performance
📰 Good to know, comparison, performance
Optimizing repos for AI
by Tom
Useful strategies
📰 Good to know, ai, repo
The real problem with AI coding
by Paul Sangle-Ferriere
Tech debt and comprehension debt
📰 Good to know, ai, engineering
Octoverse
by github.blog
A new developer joins GitHub every second as AI leads TypeScript to number 1
📰 Good to know, github, trends, typescript
React Grab
by Aiden Bai
Grab any element on in your app and give it to Cursor, Claude Code, etc
🧰 Tools, react, ai
FTA
by Sam Brown
Rust-based static analysis for TypeScript projects
🧰 Tools, typescript, analysis
Dev TUI
by Stanislav (Stas) Katkov
A Swiss-army app for developers
🧰 Tools, cli, tools
spoilerjs
by Shajid Hasan
A framework-agnostic web component for creating beautiful spoiler effects with Telegram-inspired particle animations.
🧰 Tools, javascript, animations
Bad UX World Cup
by badux.lol
Congratulations to the bad ux world champion
🤪 Fun, ux
Section Layout
by Ahmad Shadeed
Building a typical section design with modern CSS.
📚 Tutorials, css
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