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.

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Taming C’s Darkest Arts: Memory-Safe Context Switching in Fil-C

How Fil-C brings memory safety to the chaotic world of setjmp, longjmp, and ucontext fibers.

Rachel Goldstein

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 · 2w 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 · 2w ago4

A First-Person Shooter Written in Pure COBOL

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

Article · 2w 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 · 2w 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 · 2w 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 · 2w 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 · 2w 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 · 2w 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 · 2w 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 · 2w 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 · 2w 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 · 2w ago5

npm v12 Is About to Stop Running Your Install Scripts — Here's What to Audit

The next npm major flips lifecycle scripts, Git, and remote-URL dependencies from opt-out to opt-in. The warnings are already live in 11.16.0, so you have until July to find out what breaks.

News · 3w ago5

Gitdot: A Rust-Built, Anti-AI Code Forge Gunning for GitHub

A Show HN submission this week introduced Gitdot — an open-source, Rust-written alternative to GitHub that deliberately refuses AI features. Here's what the early project signals.

News · 3w ago0

Inside the TI-84 Plus: A Complete Reverse Engineering of Its Z80 Operating System

A meticulous Ghidra-driven teardown of the TI-84 Plus OS exposes paging tricks, the bcall syscall ABI, BCD floating-point internals, and decades of undocumented behavior — a field guide for anyone who loves low-level systems work.

Article · 3w ago1