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Here's the latest newsletter sent on 2026-06-04.

Contents

Interesting tools

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

mq

Query, filter, transform Markdown.

What we like

Extract content from Markdown, then apply transformations to the content. Works as both a CLI and a REPL environment. Options to convert other formats e.g. CSV into a Markdown table. Syntax is similar to jq. Has an MCP server for AI usage.

What we don't like

Nothing!

Slumber

Terminal HTTP client.

What we like

TUI and CLI for making REST and other HTTP client requests. Config-based recipes for building requests. Can import collections from other formats e.g. OpenAPI. Templates for dynamic requests. Also works as a Python package.

What we don't like

Only supports HTTP.

Betas and previews

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

  • Copilot CLI refresh

    GitHub Copilot AI CLI.

    Developer Tools
  • Vault

    File encryption & signing CLI.

    Security
  • Website Specification

    A platform-agnostic specification.

    Developer Tools
  • Foldkit

    Correctness focused frontend framework.

    Developer Tools
  • MarkItDown

    Convert docs to Markdown.

    Developer Tools
  • Cate

    Infinite zoomable IDE.

    Developer Tools
  • g

    Go version manager.

    Developer Tools

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