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Here's the latest newsletter sent on 2025-11-20.

Contents

Interesting tools

Each week we review 2—3 of the most interesting developer tools. Here's what we featured this week.

Google Antigravity

Google’s new AI IDE.

What we like

Agent-first UI: agent manager to instruct and manage AI coding agents. Exposes task list, implementation plan and walkthrough file artifacts used by the agent - builds docs as it goes. You can comment on plans to provide feedback to the agent. Automates in-browser code testing through a Chrome extension - result artifacts are added to the walkthrough doc.

What we don't like

Seems quite easy to hit AI model rate limits with extended usage. How many IDEs does Google have now?

Homebrew 5

Package manager.

What we like

Now officially supports Linux ARM as well as macOS. Concurrent downloads enabled by default speeds things up. Makes it easy to install packages which live in their own directory and are symlinked to the relevant bin directories. Gives you one command to update everything (and pin specific packages).

What we don't like

Will drop support for unsigned packages in a year so this may break a lot of packages even if it does improve security long term.

Betas and previews

Here's the interesting beta and early access releases we featured this week.

  • gokey

    Vaultless password manager.

    Security

  • PrinceJS

    Web framework for Bun.

    Developer Tools

  • RegreSQL

    SQL regression testing.

    Developer Tools

  • Boa

    Embeddable JS engine.

    Developer Tools

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