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Here's the latest newsletter sent on 2025-07-03.

Contents

Interesting tools

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

tigrisfs

Object storage as a filesystem.

What we like

Mounts Tigris object storage buckets as a local filesystem. Includes optimizations for small files. POSIX-compatible so you get permissions, symlinks, etc. Smart caching and prefetching of directories and metadata to improve performance.

What we don't like

Some operations will be slow if uncached - remember that object storage is not block storage.

Kingfisher

Secret scanning & validation.

What we like

Uses hardware accelerated regex parsing combined with live validation to find secrets. Optimized with language aware parsing to check regex matches against real patterns. Can scan locally and remotely across Git histories. Includes many pattern detections out of the box. Supports writing custom rules and validators.

What we don't like

No Linux packages (available as a small (~14Mb) compiled Rust binary). Hardware acceleration is based on Intel features.

Betas and previews

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

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