Nolan Lawson predicts AI might kill tiny npm packages—because why teach when you can just generate? Mike Fisher achieved a 16x API speedup using bloom filters and some sharp product thinking, while Dominik Dorfmeister exposes the tooltip mistakes we're all making. NPM tokens now expire in 90 days (Michael Heap shows you how to automate that headache away), and Ben Evans continues distilling tech's macro trends twice a year into presentations actually worth your time.
Also in this issue: Matt Nigh analyzed 2,500+ repositories to figure out what makes AGENTS.md files actually useful (spoiler: most aren't), browser fingerprinting via favicon is both creepy and clever, PrinceJS lands in the top 3 performance benchmarks despite being "the smallest backend framework ever," and privacy fans get Ackee for self-hosted analytics. Ultracite brings zero-config linting with opinions baked in, and zerobyte automates backups for self-hosters who want to set it and forget it.
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Find the 11 highlighted links of weeklyfoo #112:
How to write a great agents.md
by Matt Nigh
Lessons from over 2,500 repositories
🚀 Read it!, ai, agents
by Nolan Lawson
Less dependencies because of AI
📰 Good to know, ai
by Mike Fisher
The niche trick behind a 16× faster API
📰 Good to know, bloom, performance
Tooltip Components Should Not Exist
by Dominik Dorfmeister
It's quite easy to get tooltips wrong.
📰 Good to know, tooltips, ux
Automated NPM secret rotation in GitHub Actions
by Michael Heap
NPM recently announced that all long-lived tokens are being revoked, and that going forwards any new tokens may be valid for a maximum of 90 days.
📰 Good to know, npm, security
by Ben Evans
Twice a year, I produce a big presentation exploring macro and strategic trends in the tech industry.
📰 Good to know, presentations, tech, industry, ai
by Jonas Strehle
Browser fingerprinting via favicon!
🧰 Tools, browser, fingerprinting, favicon
by Little Prince X
The smallest, fastest backend framework ever made.
🧰 Tools, backend, framework
by Tobias Reich
Self-hosted, Node.js based analytics tool for those who care about privacy.
🧰 Tools, analytics, privacy, self-hosted
by Hayden Bleasel
A highly opinionated, zero-configuration linter and formatter.
🧰 Tools, linter, formatter
by Nico
Backup automation for self-hosters
🧰 Tools, backup
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