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Here's the latest newsletter sent on 2026-07-16.

Contents

Interesting tools

Each week we review 2—3 of the most interesting developer tools. Here's what we featured this week.

Ant

Lightweight JS runtime.

What we like

Smaller binary, 100% compatibility, fast package installation. Supports TypeScript with no build step. Includes a VM-isolated sandbox as core functionality with capability-based security.

What we don't like

No docs. Is writing a JS runtime in C a good idea in 2026?

Sätteri

Markdown pipeline.

What we like

Compile Markdown to HTML or JS and process it through a plugin-based pipeline. Hook into multiple stages of the compilation process. Uses syntax highlighting with Shiki as an example plugin. Supports various features like frontmatter, math, smart punctuation, GitHub formatting for tables, footnotes, etc.

What we don't like

No support for Svelte SVX.

Betas and previews

Here's the interesting beta and early access releases we featured this week.

  • dcg

    Block destructive commands.

    Security

  • Shiorei

    Cross-platform GUI framework for Go.

    Developer Tools

  • Clawk

    Disposable Linux VMs.

    DevOps

  • Lexxy

    Modern rich text editor for Rails.

    Developer Tools

  • Mellea

    Test and reason about LLM calls.

    Developer Tools

  • Goshot

    Create code screenshots.

    Developer Tools

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