Dev Tools

The everyday toolbox, examined. IDEs and editors, CLIs, frameworks, build pipelines, and the productivity tools that earn a place in your workflow — each with enough context to tell signal from noise.

Article 11h ago 4

One Log Line Costs journald 50KB of Disk Writes

Block-layer measurements finally prove the write amplification maintainers dismissed in 2020, and config tweaks barely help.

Lenn Voss

Freeze the Web Into a Single Self-Contained Binary

Kage uses headless Chrome to clone websites, strip their JavaScript, and pack them into zero-dependency executables.

Article · 1mo ago0

Instant SQL to ER Diagrams, Right in the Browser

Convert your DDL into interactive entity-relationship diagrams instantly with zero uploads, zero signups, and total privacy.

Article · 1mo ago2

Zhipu Launches GLM-5.2 with 1M-Token Context Window

Z.ai's new flagship coding model targets long-horizon agentic workflows and promises an MIT-licensed open-source release next week.

Release · 2mos ago5

WASI 0.3 Delivers Native Async to the WebAssembly Component Model

The ratified specification simplifies component composition by moving event loop management directly to the host runtime.

Article · 2mos ago2

PostgreSQL 19: Native Temporal Tables Are Finally Coming

Native application-time support in Postgres 19 eliminates complex exclusion constraints and simplifies historical data tracking.

Article · 2mos ago4

A First-Person Shooter Written in Pure COBOL

A developer builds a Wolf3D and Doom-style 3D engine using GnuCOBOL and FFplay.

Article · 2mos ago2

WASI 0.3.0 Brings Native Async to WebAssembly Components

The WebAssembly System Interface ratifies a major update, replacing complex polling workarounds with native asynchronous primitives.

Release · 2mos ago0

The Unreasonable Power of Plain HTML

Why building with basic semantic markup remains the ultimate strategy for resilient, accessible, and universally compatible web applications.

Article · 2mos ago0

Xiaomi Open-Sources MiMo Code to Challenge Claude Code

The new MIT-licensed AI coding assistant hits 62% on SWE-bench Pro, powered by the MiMo-V2.5 model.

Release · 2mos ago0

Nextcloud Hub 26 Spring Arrives with New Platform Strategy

The anniversary release marks a decade of self-hosted collaboration with a renewed focus on ecosystem developers.

Release · 2mos ago0

Homebrew 6.0.0 Makes You Trust Your Taps

The package manager now gates third-party tap code behind explicit trust and extends Bubblewrap sandboxing to Linux.

Release · 2mos ago7

The Return of the Lines of Code Metric

AI vendors are reviving volume-based developer metrics, with massive real-world consequences for engineering teams.

Article · 2mos ago0

Scaling Postgres Without the NoSQL Pivot: PgDog Secures $5.5M to Build a Better Database Proxy

With $5.5 million in fresh funding, a lightweight, multithreaded proxy aims to bring horizontal sharding to PostgreSQL without the application-level headache.

News · 2mos ago0

Alpine Linux 3.24.0 Drops pkg_resources, Bumps the Toolchain — What Container Builders Need to Know

The first v3.24 stable release ships Rust 1.96, Go 1.26, LLVM 22, and nginx 1.30, but the Python setuptools change and qemu-binfmt deprecation deserve more attention than the headline numbers.

Release · 2mos ago2

Apple's `container` Grows Up: Container Machines Turn Your Mac Into a Persistent Linux Box

Apple silicon gets a first-party, systemd-friendly Linux environment that shares your home directory — no manual mounts, no copy step between build and inspect.

News · 2mos ago5