Reviews of the most interesting devtools and latest beta releases.
Here's the latest newsletter sent on 2025-10-30.
Each week we review 2—3 of the most interesting developer tools. Here's what we featured this week.
Git hooks manager.
Define all your Git hooks in YAML. Supports local config to override main config in your repo. Supports interaction with commands or scripts. Can run conditionally e.g. on specific branches or environments. Available as a package for lots of ecosystems e.g. npm, Go, Python, macOS.
Nothing really! Some reports of issues on Windows.
Query language for JSON.
Easy to understand text query format which compiles to a JSON query. Composable with pipes and chains of operations to apply. Supports functions, operators, objects, arrays, properties. Implementations in JS, Python, and .NET.
Has a functional approach so understanding how data flows through the pipelines is not immediately intuitive.
Here's the interesting beta and early access releases we featured this week.
Local AI notebook.
Bun runtime on Vercel.
Automated traces.
Rust GUI components.
Diagrams as code.
Python web framework.
Discussions with the people behind the most interesting devtools.