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Today's newsletter features essential API design principles and brings attention to backend-style observability directly into your frontend applications. And as always, a curated list of trending articles, tools and more. | | |
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🔖 The Reading Room
Articles we have hand-picked for you: | | |
Everything I Know About Good API Design
API maintainers have a sacred duty to avoid breaking downstream consumers, as you can break hundreds of applications. A good API design balances familiarity with flexibility; the best APIs are so intuitive that developers know how to use them before reading documentation. Lastly, users will tolerate terrible APIs (like Facebook's) if the product is valuable enough, while perfect API design can't save an unwanted product.
By Sean Goedecke → | |
How Developers Can Use Tracing in the UI to Add Backend-style Observability
Traditional observability stops at the backend, leaving frontend interactions invisible. Implementing tracing in the UI using OpenTelemetry connects user clicks to API calls and database queries. This unified approach reveals whether slowdowns originate from heavy JavaScript bundles, slow APIs, or backend bottlenecks.
By Mohit Menghnani → | |
Developer's block
Just like writer's block, developers face coding paralysis when overwhelmed by best practices or complex projects. The solution involves working incrementally, starting with prototypes, and avoiding premature optimization. Focus on gaining traction first, then circle back to improve code quality and documentation. By Glyn Normington →
| | Evaluating LLMs for My Personal Use Case
Graham tests 11 LLMs on 130 real-world prompts from programming to creative tasks. Most models performed similarly well, making cost and latency the key differentiators. For him, DeepSeek and Qwen models emerged as top performers for everyday use cases. By Graham King → | |
Making Games in Go: 3 Months Without LLMs vs 3 Days With LLMs!
A seasoned software engineer compared building two card games in Go: one taking 3 months without AI assistance, the other just 3 days with Claude's help. The LLM successfully refactored complex game logic with minimal bugs. Both games use Go backends compiled to WebAssembly and hosted on GitHub Pages for free.
By Mariano Gappa → | | |
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🔗 The Link Lounge Unordered finds from around the web:
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🧰 The Toolbox
Tools and products we're excited about today: | | | |
Firecrawl
Firecrawl converts websites into AI-ready data formats like markdown and structured JSON through scraping, crawling, and extraction APIs, handling complex web content including JavaScript-rendered pages and anti-bot mechanisms. Learn more → | |
DeepWiki
DeepWiki transforms GitHub repositories into interactive wikis with AI-powered Q&A, providing instant answers about codebases with line-level citations to help developers understand, evaluate, and navigate unfamiliar code efficiently. Learn more → | |
Genie 3
Genie 3 is Google DeepMind's world model that generates interactive 3D environments from text prompts in real-time at 24fps and 720p resolution, maintaining visual consistency for minutes while enabling navigation and dynamic world modifications for AI agent training. Learn more → |
| Univer
Univer is an isomorphic full-stack framework for creating and editing spreadsheets, documents, and presentations that runs on web and server, featuring canvas-based rendering, collaborative editing, and AI-native capabilities through MCP integration. Learn more → |
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Get Enterprise Ready Without Slowing Your Roadmap
WorkOS brings enterprise features to your app in minutes, not months. Add SSO, SCIM, and RBAC in a few lines of code. Onboard customers instantly with a secure self-serve portal. Trusted by OpenAI, Cursor, and Vercel to scale with confidence.
Focus on building what makes your product great. WorkOS handles the rest.
Make your app enterprise ready today → | | | | 🎤 Your Voice
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