Reviews of the most interesting devtools and latest beta releases.
Here's the latest newsletter sent on 2025-10-09.
Each week we review 2—3 of the most interesting developer tools. Here's what we featured this week.
CLI toolkit.
Bundles a set of common tools: encoding, hashing, UUID, lorem, string processing, json utilities, QR code generator, color conversion. Single (Rust) binary. Works with stdin/out. Cross platform and has a macOS homebrew package.
Would be useful to be able to read from files, even if you can redirect commands in from the shell.
Terminal.
Supports true color (up to 16 million), which means it supports images in the terminal (Sixel / iTerm2 image protocol). Font ligatures and RetroArch shaders. Copies Vi mode from Alacritty. Split panels and multi-window support. Single (Rust) binary with support for all major OSs.
Great cross-platform hardware accelerated terminal, but if you want something that feels more integrated into your OS then Ghostty is more platform-native.
Here's the interesting beta and early access releases we featured this week.
Embedded local web security model.
Time series data warehouse.
Build apps inside ChatGPT.
Express-inspired web framework for Go.
Spec-driven development CLI.
Terminal-only blog editor.
Discussions with the people behind the most interesting devtools.