Reviews of the most interesting devtools and latest beta releases.
Here's the latest newsletter sent on 2025-07-10.
Each week we review 2—3 of the most interesting developer tools. Here's what we featured this week.
Task manager and kanban CLI.
Uses a Git repo with Markdown files for tracking each issue - everything exists in text on disk. CLI helps visualize the tasks as a list or kanban board. Also includes a web UI. Tasks can be created and managed from the CLI. Git used for history.
No dark mode for the web UI.
Reproducible Nix builds and packages.
Tooling makes it easy to create reproducible builds. Include runtime dependencies and publish packages that are ready to execute. Everything runs in a sandbox. Package output can include configs, docs, examples, bundled ready to run.
You must specifically build, package, and publish for every system architecture.
Type testing for TypeScript.
Makes testing types easier. Includes expect style assertions e.g. toBe(), toBeCallableWith(). Intuitive helpers for test(), it(), describe(). Test runner can specify filters, paths, and target specific TypeScript versions.
Testing many versions of TypeScript can be slow.
Here's the interesting beta and early access releases we featured this week.
Detect and mitigate AI security risks.
AI coding agent for the terminal.
Kafka TUI.
Find native dependencies.
Standards-based Ruby web apps.
tmux re-written in Rust.
Discussions with the people behind the most interesting devtools.