Reviews of the most interesting devtools and latest beta releases.
Here's the latest newsletter sent on 2026-05-07.
Each week we review 2—3 of the most interesting developer tools. Here's what we featured this week.
Durable queues for SQLite.
Adds pub/sub, task queue, and event streams to SQLite. No need for client polling or a broker. Shipped as a SQLite extension with bindings for Python, Node, Rust, Go, Ruby, etc. Allows an INSERT and enqueue as part of the same transaction (with rollback). Also supports cron.
Polling is via a SELECT per millisecond per database, which should be lightweight, but is an extra high-frequency query. Still experimental.
HTTP benchmarking.
Runs HTTP requests and benchmarks latency and response codes. Configurable concurrency, duration, request count, and ramp up time. Outputs stats to the terminal in real time. Supports JSON output and provides a web UI.
Pretty straightforward HTTP request support, including different methods e.g. POST (with body). For more complex benchmarks, k6 is a good, scriptable alternative.
Here's the interesting beta and early access releases we featured this week.
Desktop automation CLI.
Infrastructure as effects framework.
Vuln scanning agents.
Capture your full dev timeline.
Warp terminal open sourced.
Web framework.
Discussions with the people behind the most interesting devtools.