Reviews of the most interesting devtools and latest beta releases.
Here's the latest newsletter sent on 2025-09-04.
Each week we review 2—3 of the most interesting developer tools. Here's what we featured this week.
Declarative diagrams.
Full language designed for diagramming. Includes themes and animations. Use custom fonts and icons. Supports embedding code with syntax highlighting and Markdown for adding explanations. Has web editor and VS Code extension. CLI to generate the diagram output.
Can currently only export to PDF, SVG, PNG - more formats are on the roadmap.
Real-time log analysis TUI.
Processes logs as a stream from stdin, files, network, OTel. Auto detects format, parses, colorizes. Shows real time graphs with word frequency, severity, time series, attributes. Auto scroll with pausing. Filters by regex, attributes, severity. Optional AI support (local or cloud models) with pattern detection, root cause suggestions, etc.
Nothing really - does a great job!
Here's the interesting beta and early access releases we featured this week.
Discussions with the people behind the most interesting devtools.