Reviews of the most interesting devtools and latest beta releases.
Here's the latest newsletter sent on 2026-01-22.
Each week we review 2—3 of the most interesting developer tools. Here's what we featured this week.
CLI search for local Markdown.
On-device text search. Indexes anything Markdown. Supports keyword and natural language search. Embeds a local LLM to help with ranking results. Includes an MCP server so you can integrate with your AI of choice. Various output formats (text, JSON, CSV, Markdown).
Not multi-platform - only works on macOS.
Access GitHub from your status bar.
Exposes key GitHub primitives in your status bar - issues, PRs, releases, actions, checks, latest activity. Dig into each repo to browse open issues, PRs, etc. Shows local Git state so you can easily switch worktrees. Will automatically discover local repos. Bundles a basic CLI to get the data in your terminal.
Source is available on GitHub, but there’s no license (yet?).
Here's the interesting beta and early access releases we featured this week.
Manage coding agent terminal sessions.
WebGPU-based charting library.
Expose local server to internet.
Let users generate UI.
Go to TypeScript transpiler.
Redis GUI.
Discussions with the people behind the most interesting devtools.