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Here's the latest newsletter sent on 2025-08-28.

Contents

Interesting tools

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

Base

SQLite editor for macOS.

What we like

Visual schema editor. Data browser with in-line editing and filters. Includes a built-in SQL editor with syntax highlighting and auto completed based on your schema. Export to SQL, JSON, Excel, CSL. Fully macOS native.

What we don't like

macOS only.

Nitro

Tiny init system & process supervisor.

What we like

Easily configure and run processes and services. All state kept in RAM, works on read-only filesystems. Event-driven, polling free. Can run as PID 1 on Linux. Includes a control CLI. Works on FreeBSD and as a container init system. Single binary.

What we don't like

Should new system tools be written in C?

Betas and previews

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

  • rv

    Fast Ruby tooling.

    Developer Tools
  • MCSS

    Modern, classless, CSS framework.

    Developer Tools
  • React Bits

    Animated React components.

    Developer Tools
  • Try

    Directory management for new projects.

    Developer Tools
  • Optique

    Express CLI constraints in code.

    Developer Tools

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