#Dev Tools

Open Source Your Side Project the Right Way

Turn a personal repo into a contributor-ready GitHub project with a license, README badge, templates, and CI.

Tutorial · 4d ago3

Protobuf v36 Makes Edition 2026 Strict by Default

Local-by-default symbols, banned field names, and hard size limits show protobuf becoming a governed schema language, not just a wire format.

Article · 1w ago7

Go Keeps Choosing Codegen Over Reflection

A new five-generator suite matters less than the workflow behind it, which Go 1.24 finally made first-class.

Article · 1w ago3

Your Playwright Best Practices Are Selenium Habits in Disguise

The community's testing canon keeps contradicting what the Playwright team actually documents and ships.

Article · 1w ago2

PostHog Doesn't Want to Be Analytics Anymore

The kitchen-sink platform everyone mocked is betting its bundled data model is exactly what AI agents need.

Article · 1w ago1

GitHub's Favorite API List Is a Billboard Now

public-apis is trending again at 464k stars, but the community that built it left years ago.

Article · 1w ago0

Microsoft's Agent Identity Model Is the Blueprint to Steal

Three permission planes solve the over-privileged agent problem, but a publish-time identity swap will bite the unprepared.

Article · 1w ago2

Cursor vs Copilot vs Windsurf Is the Wrong Question

SpaceX owns Cursor, Windsurf became Devin Desktop, and Copilot meters by token — pick a platform, not an autocomplete.

Article · 1w ago2

Stop Managing .env Files by Hand: Per-Project Env with direnv

Set up direnv so environment variables and virtualenvs load when you cd in and vanish when you leave.

Tutorial · 1w ago0

Turn Neovim into a Full IDE with LSP, Treesitter, and Telescope

One init.lua takes bare Neovim 0.12 to autocomplete, fuzzy finding, and syntax-aware navigation.

Tutorial · 1w ago0

AI Broke Half the Case Against Formal Verification

The 1979 objections are collapsing on proof labor and hardening on specifications, exactly where developers now need judgement.

Article · 1w ago0

Zsh Has Been Silently Eating Shell Histories Since 2015

A stray Ctrl+C at shell exit could truncate your history file; the fix ships in 5.9.2, which macOS doesn't have.

Article · 2w ago2

To Crack Wayland, RustDesk Went Straight to the Kernel

The new unattended-access preview skips the portal consent model entirely, reading DRM framebuffers from a root service.

Article · 2w ago0

Speed Up Rust Compile Times with sccache and cargo-nextest

Diagnose slow Rust builds, then cache compilation and parallelize tests locally and in GitHub Actions.

Tutorial · 2w ago0

Reproducible Dev Shells with Nix Flakes

One flake.nix, one nix develop, and every teammate gets the exact same toolchain.

Tutorial · 2w ago0