Sunday
Better Auth — A new authentication library that is feature-complete and easy-to-use. Compared to Lucia, which advocates a copy-and-paste approach, this library requires less intimate knowledge about authentication, and its plug-in system implies that it doesn’t sacrifice on extensibility. It feels more like an automatic with manual overrides in cars, rather than a manual transmission. My choice going forward.
Origin UI — What an excellent set of UI components based on shadcn/ui! The number of variants for each UI category is mind-boggling.
Top 10 Email Deliverability Tips — Resend’s tips on improving the deliverability of outbound emails.
Simon Willison’s take on MLX — Simon Willison (finally) added MLX as a new plugin to his LLM CLI utility, llm. His experiences with MLX were very positive:
This is really good software. This small team at Apple appear to be almost single-handedly giving NVIDIA’s CUDA a run for their money!
Semantic Scholar — Unlike Google Scholar, Semantic Scholar provides an open REST API to obtain metadata about papers and their authors, forming an academic graph. Pretty cool and I didn’t know about it before.
Zed supports edit prediction with its open-source Zeta model — The blog post that introduces Zeta was pretty comprehensive and covered a lot of grounds, including their deployment with Baseten with latency minimized.
OpenAlex — A fully open catalog of the global research system. The world becomes a better place with the dedication and hard work of people behind these efforts at OurResearch. It is also part of in the recently released Common Corpus 2, a second version of the Common Corpus.