Reviews of the most interesting devtools and latest beta releases.
Here's the latest newsletter sent on 2025-04-24.
Each week we review 2—3 of the most interesting developer tools. Here's what we featured this week.
Database visualizer.
Generates schema visualizations without needing to connect to the DB. Supports major DBMS e.g. ClickHouse, MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite. Make edits and export the results. Save and share diagrams (cloud version). You can also self-host.
Requires running a several-hundred line script to import the existing structure, which is fine so long as you check what the script is doing.
Reactive fullstack JS framework.
Designed to work with SolidJS which provides a lightweight JS framework without a virtual DOM. Acts as a basic starter kit with filesystem routing, middleware, bundler, data loading, server actions, on top of the Nitro web server. Minimal out of the box (~5kb).
Development looks like it’s slowed down in the build up to SolidJS 2.0. But you want your framework to be stable with minimal churn, so this may not be a bad thing.
Here's the interesting beta and early access releases we featured this week.
Runbooks for the terminal.
Rust based package manager for macOS.
Durable Python workflows.
Embeddable, high performance JS engine.
Statefull serverless framework.
Declarative configuration for Gmail filters.
Discussions with the people behind the most interesting devtools.