Reviews of the most interesting devtools and latest beta releases.
Here's the latest newsletter sent on 2025-09-18.
Each week we review 2—3 of the most interesting developer tools. Here's what we featured this week.
Native macOS containers & VMs.
Run containers and VMs using native macOS APIs for better performance. Docker-compatible (including Compose). Bundles debug tools, log viewer, activity graphs. GUI for managing containers, images, volumes, networks, file manager. Proxies HTTPS with SSL.
It would be interesting to see if they can leverage the new container APIs in macOS Tahoe.
Content-aware shell.
Supports types outside of byte streams and string variables with expressions, manipulating parsing content e.g. JSON, Yaml, and other languages. Has power language features e.g. functions and variables. All can be used in pipes to make them more robust and flexible. Has tab completion and hints.
There’s lots to learn! But you can use it like a normal shell and gradually start to use the extra features as you need them (or not).
Here's the interesting beta and early access releases we featured this week.
Web framework for Zig.
A database.
Run any GUI in the terminal.
Container security scanning.
Dotfile manager.
HTML to Markdown convertor.
Discussions with the people behind the most interesting devtools.