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Here's the latest newsletter sent on 2025-03-13.

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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.

Mako

Fast JS bundler.

What we like

Zero config - supports bundling CSS, images, WASM, fonts, polyfills, etc from JS/TS. Hot reload (HMR) with component-level reloading. Configurable code splitting and tree shaking. Faster than every other bundler.

What we don't like

Only supports macOS and Linux. Not compatible with Webpack (which is a feature so they can go their own way, but worth highlighting).

presenterm

Markdown slides in your terminal.

What we like

Presentations are created in Markdown so have a plain text source. Supports images and gifs. Themable. Includes syntax highlighting. Code snippets can be executed on demand. You also present from your terminal, but can export to PDF.

What we don't like

You lose flexibility from WYSIWYG slide editors, but we could all do with simpler presentations.

Betas and previews

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

  • Cocoindex

    Extract, transform, index data.

    Data Science
  • Lynx

    Native mobile apps with web tech.

    Developer Tools
  • Copacetic

    Directly patch container images.

    Security
  • Memberlist

    Cluster gossip protocol.

    Developer Tools
  • Gore

    Go REPL.

    Developer Tools
  • pg_mooncake

    Postgres-native data warehouse.

    Database
  • Mox

    All-in-one mail server.

    DevOps

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