Tag: #developer-tools
Writing on GPUs, LLMs, MLOps, Kubernetes — and mindset · 36 posts
Open Source Worth Watching Right Now (2) Build Tools, Editors, CLIs, and Terminals
Work that gets repeated dozens of times a day, such as installing packages, linting, and bundling, has been rewritten in native languages, and the waiting has come down from seconds to milliseconds. This post introduces
2026-08-12 · 5 min read #open-source#developer-tools#cli#rust#performanceDoes Running Five Agents Really Make You Five Times Faster — The Bottleneck in Parallel Work Is Not Generation
Purpose-built environments for running several coding agents at once are multiplying. Orca is one of them, and it pitches spraying a single prompt at several agents, isolating each in its own git worktree, then comparing
2026-08-09 · 9 min read #developer-tools#git#worktree#code-review#workflowWhen Does a Code Screenshot in Your Docs Start Lying — Turning Images into Build Artifacts
A code screenshot captured by hand and pasted into a document is an artifact with no source. The code changes and the image does not, so at some point it quietly starts showing something false. Generate the image from a
2026-08-09 · 8 min read #documentation#developer-tools#cli#ci#automationThe Real Reason Web Editors Have No Ruler — The Ruler Is Not Missing, the Paper Is
Of everything Word has and web editors do not, the most frequently requested feature is the ruler. It is not that nobody has built one. It is that the web has no page model, so you cannot even settle what a centimetre is
2026-08-09 · 8 min read #frontend#rich-text-editor#ui-design#contenteditable#developer-toolsLookup Cost Decides What You Can Read — From Two-Thousand-Year-Old Texts to Code Navigation
A site has appeared that gathers 1,060 Greek and Latin works and, when you click any word, shows its lemma, its morphological parsing, and its dictionary entry. The impressive part is not the volume of text but that the
2026-08-09 · 8 min read #developer-tools#code-navigation#ide#reading#toolingMitchell Hashimoto's Second Company, Superlogical — What's Public and What Isn't
On July 29, 2026, Mitchell Hashimoto unveiled a new company, Superlogical, and it picked up 776 points and 452 comments on Hacker News. The first product is a terminal multiplexer, built on libghostty as an MIT-licensed
2026-07-31 · 13 min read #developer-tools#startup#ghostty#terminal#infrastructureHow Engineers Should Read a Go-to-Market Playbook — Where Distribution Beats Product Quality
In late July 2026, an NFX post titled "Upgraded Go-to-Market Playbook" showed up on GeekNews. It is a perspective piece written by a VC, and the numbers inside are curated anecdotes, not a sample. This post translates th
2026-07-31 · 14 min read #startup#go-to-market#product-led-growth#developer-tools#careerThe founder who went back to the terminal: Hashimoto on Ghostty, Zig, and open source with "no obligation"
Grounded in a recent interview, a look at why HashiCorp cofounder Mitchell Hashimoto stepped back from being a successful founder to build the terminal emulator Ghostty in Zig, a language not yet at 1.0. He admits that a
2026-07-11 · 6 min read #ghostty#zig#open-source#terminal#mitchell-hashimotoIn Emacs, everything looks like a service: reading the client-server lens onto the "Emacs is an OS" meme
A reflection on the essay "In Emacs, Everything Looks Like a Service" by Charles Choi. He flatly rejects the tired "Emacs is an operating system" comparison and offers a sharper picture: Emacs is a universal client, and
2026-07-11 · 6 min read #emacs#elisp#client-server#developer-tools#text-editorsWhy Developers Are Leaving GitHub for Codeberg — and What You Actually Give Up
Posts titled 'I left GitHub for Codeberg' are multiplying. Behind them are real departures — Ghostty, Zig, Gentoo — plus frequent outages, GitHub's absorption into Microsoft's CoreAI division, and an April 2026 flip to o
2026-07-11 · 6 min read #github#codeberg#forgejo#self-hosting#open-sourceHow to Use Oh My OpenCode — Turn OpenCode into a Multi-Agent Team
Oh My OpenCode is an orchestration layer on top of OpenCode that gives you a team of async subagents. A practical guide to install, configure, run work, and stay safe on cost.
2026-07-06 · 16 min read #oh-my-opencode#opencode#ai-coding-agent#cli#developer-toolsReal Engines in Your Browser: A Tour of WebAssembly Dev Tools
Real Python via Pyodide, real PostgreSQL via PGlite, real video processing via ffmpeg.wasm. A practical tour of the WebAssembly-powered, backend-free browser tools newly added to this site — why WASM delivers near-native
2026-07-03 · 8 min read #webassembly#wasm#developer-tools#browser#toolingOpinionated Tools — The Philosophy of Code Formatters and Linters
Why code formatters end debates and preserve consistency. Comparing gofmt and gofumpt, prettier, black, and ruff, this piece lays out the philosophy of strictness versus flexibility, the difference from linters, CI enfor
2026-06-29 · 22 min read #devops#formatter#linter#developer-tools#toolingThe Rise of AI Code Review Tools — How Automated Review Changes Teams
AI code review tools are pouring out as open source and reshaping developer workflows. From Git diff analysis, defect detection, and convention enforcement to the division of labor with human reviewers, false-positive ma
2026-06-29 · 20 min read #devops#ai#code-review#ci-cd#developer-toolsSoftware Debugging Tools 2026 Deep Dive — gdb, lldb, rr, Pernosco, Replay.io, ASan, Valgrind, eBPF, perf, Time-Travel Debugging
A full map of the 2026 debugging landscape in one read. From the undefeated reign of printf to interactive debugging with gdb/lldb, time-travel and omniscient debugging via rr/Pernosco/Replay.io, the ASan-vs-Valgrind tra
2026-05-16 · 25 min read #debugging#gdb#lldb#rr#pernoscoTools and Trends to Avoid in 2026 — A Curated Anti-Recommendation Deep Dive
A 2026 opinion piece on developer tools and trends that have aged badly — and the better choice that fills each gap. Not pure negativity: every AVOID is paired with an INSTEAD. From CRA, Moment.js, Yarn 1, Gulp, and loda
2026-05-14 · 21 min read #anti-pattern#tools-to-avoid#developer-tools#curation#retired-toolsThe 2026 Rising Open-Source Map — A Practitioner's Survey of OpenClaw, n8n, Langflow, Dify, and Ollama
A practitioner's survey of the open-source projects that exploded on GitHub in 2026. What OpenClaw, n8n, Langflow/Dify/Flowise, and Ollama are, why they're trending, when to use them, what the risks are — and how to vet
2026-05-14 · 16 min read #open-source#github#trending#openclaw#n8nBuild Your Own VS Code Extension and Language Server — A 2026 LSP Hands-On Guide
VS Code extensions and LSP aren't mysterious anymore. From Extension API basics — commands, providers, webviews — through the anatomy of LSP messages over JSON-RPC, building real servers with vscode-languageserver and to
2026-05-14 · 25 min read #vscode#vscode-extension#language-server#lsp#hands-onFormatters and Linters in 2026 — The Real Place of Biome, dprint, Ruff, oxc, Prettier 4, and ESLint v9
The 2026 landscape of code formatters and linters is unrecognizable from five years ago. Biome 2, dprint, Ruff, and oxc — most rewritten in Rust, 10 to 100 times faster, and a real merger of formatter and linter is final
2026-05-14 · 30 min read #formatter#linter#biome#dprint#ruffThe TUI Renaissance 2026 — Ratatui, Bubble Tea, Textual, Ink and the Beautifully Reborn Terminal (Deep Dive)
lazygit, k9s, atuin, gum, posting, slumber. The terminal in 2026 is no longer gray text on a black background. Rounded corners, gradients, mouse support, markdown, even images. Charm's Bubble Tea, the Rust camp's Ratatui
2026-05-14 · 21 min read #tui#terminal-ui#ratatui#bubbletea#textual