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Here's the latest newsletter sent on 2026-09-17.

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Interesting tools

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

htmx 4

Enhance HTML.

What we like

Simplifies the approach to adding attributes to HTML tags for dynamic features. Now uses fetch(). Makes it easy to implement features like infinite scroll, form post, search as you type, polling, and streaming responses. Still pretty minimal (11kb) and no dependencies.

What we don't like

Lots of attributes littered all over your HTML, but that is the point.

Solo

Loader for Linux static binaries.

What we like

Makes static binaries for GPU-accelerated code actually work. Makes it easy to build self-contained applications that can benefit from acceleration. Compile to musl, but still use common shared packages.

What we don't like

Incomplete ABI coverage: unsupported glibc calls currently abort. Musl has its own compatibility issues.

Betas and previews

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

  • dbt Charts

    Declarative charts from SQL.

    Data Science
  • pdfcn

    PDF components for React.

    Developer Tools
  • Neki

    Sharded Postgres.

    Database

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