Reviews of the most interesting devtools and latest beta releases.
Here's the latest newsletter sent on 2025-07-17.
Each week we review 2—3 of the most interesting developer tools. Here's what we featured this week.
Enhanced .env files.
Use decorator comments to create .env config schemas. Allows for validation and type safety. Implement function calls e.g. to load a secret from 1Password. Redacts values in stdout and console methods. Supports different environments. Drop-in replacement for dotenv.
Only has native integrations for Node and Next.js (doesn’t support Turbopack yet), but there is a binary CLI to run and inject values into the environment.
Terminal text editor.
Latest release (25.07) includes a file explorer with fuzzy search. LSP integration for auto complete, diagnostics, etc. Tree-sitter integration for syntax highlighting. Built for the terminal with theme support. Works cross platform.
No support for third-party plugins. Some package managers have outdated versions.
Manage package.json overrides.
Detects and tracks overrides, resolutions, and patches. Removes overrides and resolutions if they become unneeded. Will notify you if you have unused patches when dependencies are removed. Use it as a post-install script to automatically run the checks.
Would benefit from support for comments to explain the “why” of overrides etc.
Here's the interesting beta and early access releases we featured this week.
Durable vector storage.
Inference engine for Apple Silicon.
High performance object storage.
Agentic IDE.
Federated Open Key Service.
Discussions with the people behind the most interesting devtools.