Reviews of the most interesting devtools and latest beta releases.
Here's the latest newsletter sent on 2025-12-18.
Each week we review 2—3 of the most interesting developer tools. Here's what we featured this week.
Devops notebooks.
Like a lightweight Jupyter notebook for devops. Run inside your IDE e.g. VS Code, on Codespaces, via a CLI, or by launching a web UI. Integrates with cloud environments to launch resources from the notebook. Everything is based on Markdown so can be committed to source control.
No way to determine how errors are detected or handled - commands aren’t idempotent.
Decentralized Git hosting.
Host on your own infra using headless servers for both the repo and CI/CD. Issue tracking with threaded comments and pull requests which support Jujutsu change IDs and stacking. Uses the AT Protocol so you can own all your data.
No search for issues or pull requests. Requires using an existing Bluesky or other federated server account (they run their own you can sign up with).
Here's the interesting beta and early access releases we featured this week.
Python type checker & LSP.
TUI for SQL databases.
Machine readable code comments.
Upgrade your JS / TS codebases.
Web debugging inspector.
Discussions with the people behind the most interesting devtools.