Latest Console newsletter

A weekly digest of the best developer tools. We keep track of everything - dev tools, devops, cloud, and APIs - so you don't have to. This is the content of the newsletter sent on 23 Sep 2021.

Interesting tools

Each week we review 2-3 of the most interesting developer tools. Here's what we featured this week. View the full archive.

zoxide

Smarter cd for your terminal.

What we like: Ranking algorithm means it usually guesses which path you mean so you can navigate common long paths without typing them all out. Multi-platform options for installing. Includes an fzf-powered interactive mode. Integrations available for Emacs, Ranger, Neovim. Zsh autocomplete available.

What we don't like: Years of muscle memory using cd means you probably want to alias it to zoxide. Renamed paths can confuse the history - need to edit the DB to update them.

HTTP Toolkit

Intercept, mock, rewrite HTTP requests.

What we like: Auto connects to Brave, Firefox, Chrome, terminal, Android, Edge or acts as a generic proxy. Inspect all HTTP requests. Create rules (match on regex, URL, host, JSON, headers), intercept and rewrite - pause requests to manually edit them, time out, transform, forward to different hosts or return fixed responses. Open source.

What we don't like: No support for Safari, iOS or Docker (on the roadmap). No free trial for pro features like import/export HAR, more advanced rules, mock API templates, etc.

New betas & early release programs

We also include some of the more interesting beta and early access releases. Here's the ones we featured this week. View the live list on Beta Console.

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