Reviews of the most interesting devtools and latest beta releases.
Here's the latest newsletter sent on 2026-08-13.
Each week we review 2—3 of the most interesting developer tools. Here's what we featured this week.
JS framework for web apps.
Framework built on Solid v1 for high performance, lightweight web applications. Built on Vite 8 with Rolldown, which brings modern tooling and deployment targets like Netlify, Cloudflare, and general Nitro web servers. Build-in support for auth & sessions, middleware, websockets, data mutation.
Confusing documentation across Solid, Router, SolidStart, with varying versions v1 and v2.
Agentic coding environment.
Every chat thread can be a cloud VM with multiple repos checked out (or work locally using the CLI). Custom coding harness involves multiple adversarial models to check work as it works. Built-in authenticated preview URLs. Terminal access. Use your existing coding LLM subscription e.g. ChatGPT.
Uses tokens quite quickly. No native desktop (or mobile) apps - all PWAs.
Here's the interesting beta and early access releases we featured this week.
Discussions with the people behind the most interesting devtools.