#Dev Tools

Linux Packaging Didn't Get Fixed. It Got Bypassed

A Rust editor shipped through ten channels, and the lone survivor says everything about where distribution is heading.

Article · 1d ago0

Woxi Bets Rust and AI Can Clone the Wolfram Language

The largely Claude-written interpreter is a real embedding win — and a stress test for AI-scaled reimplementation.

Article · 1d ago0

Copilot's Context Engine Doesn't Know What a Secret Is

A mitmproxy teardown shows greedy context harvesting shipping .env secrets, while the controls to stop it are enterprise-gated.

Article · 2d ago0

Files Beat Prompts, and Now PMs Know It Too

A viral workflow guide shows context engineering escaping engineering, and why raw Claude Code still beats GUI wrappers.

Article · 2d ago2

Write a Custom ESLint Plugin to Enforce Your Team's Coding Standards

Build, test, and ship an ESLint rule that blocks your team's anti-patterns at commit time.

Tutorial · 3d ago0

OpenChamber Bets Your Coding Agent Doesn't Need a Terminal

The MIT-licensed opencode frontend signals the real fight in AI coding: the supervision layer, not the harness.

Article · 4d ago5

Wireblast pushes 135M packets a second from one Go binary

Andree Toonk's AF_XDP traffic generator hits 100G line rates without DPDK, hugepages, or NIC exorcisms.

Article · 5d ago0

Nix Governance Keeps Burning Out Its Governors

The second delegated NixOS team to fold in a year says more about the constitution than the code.

Article · 6d ago5

Meta's Muse Code Is Cheap Because You're the Dataset

Muse Spark 1.2's contributor tier swaps deep discounts for training rights to your coding sessions.

Article · 1w ago0

FFmpeg 9.0 Bets the GPU Stack on Vulkan

Animated WebP decoding finally lands too, along with sustained AMD AMF work and an ABI break worth planning for.

Article · 1w ago1

AI Agents Just Rewrote the Case for Open-Source Devtools

David Crawshaw argues agents make personal forks economical at last — he's mostly right, and vendors should worry.

Article · 1w ago2

Your Next Plugin System Is a Fork

David Crawshaw argues agents make forking cheaper than configuring. He's right — but only for single-player tools.

Article · 1w ago0

TypeScript 7's 10x Compiler Lands, With One Big Catch

The Go-native compiler's 8-12x build speedups hold up in production, but lint and framework tooling must wait for 7.1.

Article · 1w ago1

'Memory-Unsafe and Faster Than Yours' Is a Real Terminal

The stal/IX author's Zutty rewrite posts big throughput wins and skewers how terminal emulators get marketed.

Article · 1w ago0

F* Is the Verified Code Already Hiding in Your Stack

The proof-oriented language never went mainstream, but its extracted C runs in Firefox, Python, Windows, and the Linux kernel.

Article · 1w ago5