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Here's the latest newsletter sent on 2026-09-24.

Contents

Interesting tools

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

Rune

Unix-inspired IDE.

What we like

Pick between VSCode, vim, or emacs editor style. Has a full window manager with terminal and multiplexer built in. Each environment can connect to others through a built-in e2e encrypted network. Works with AI agents. Natively GPU accelerated.

What we don't like

Not all languages at the same level of support e.g. Go, Python are Tier 1, but TypeScript is still in development.

Fallow

JS refactoring CLI.

What we like

CLI does static analysis on JS/TS codebases to find improvements - unused code, complex code, duplication - and areas for improvement. Understands TypeScript types and packages. Supports various output formats e.g. terminal reports and CI PR comments.

What we don't like

JS/TS only.

Betas and previews

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

  • Drop

    Linux sandboxing.

    Security

  • Gortex

    Local code intelligence.

    Developer Tools

  • neat-annotations

    Hand-drawn annotations in CSS.

    Developer Tools

  • Atlas

    Source control for agents.

    Developer Tools

  • Tin

    Postgres full-text search.

    Database

  • ax

    Google’s distributed agent runtime.

    Developer Tools

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