Links tagged “tools”
95 links, newest first.
gregoryszorc.com
self-contained, portable Python builds, the brick under uv and pyenv.
github.com
GigaToken: ~1000x faster language model tokenization - a thousandfold speedup on the least glamorous step in the pipeline, with benchmarks in the repo.
astral.sh
Ruff v0.16.0, 413 default rules up from 59 - the Python linter changes what it means by "default". Check your CI before it checks you.
simonwillison.net
Claude Code uses Bun written in Rust now - the tool that compiles its own runtime. Willison unpacks the stack.
jola.dev
How to stop Claude from saying "load-bearing" - why LLM verbal tics take hold and how to steer them away, a practical TIL.
blaizzy.github.io
Nativ: run frontier open models locally on your Mac - open models on Apple Silicon, MIT licensed, built on MLX. No account, no cloud.
lalitm.com
The Git history command deserves more attention - the git log options that change daily work, in one short read.
minimaxir.com
On the unannounced weekly quota resets hitting coding agents since July 2026, and what they do to anyone depending on one.
devblogs.microsoft.com
Announcing TypeScript 7.0 - the native Go port lands for real, roughly 10x.
hmans.dev
Chatto is now open source - self-hostable team chat, one binary that serves its own frontend, data encrypted at rest, AGPL-3.0.
github.com
A terminal coding agent in Rust that reads a codebase, edits files, runs shell commands and manages long tasks.
blog.podman.io
Podman v6.0.0 - rootless containers, still no daemon.
simonwillison.net
LLM cliche highlighter - highlights ten writing tics that give away a language model. Willison had Fable 5 build it after one article too many, so the slop detector was written by the slop machine.
evmar.github.io
Evan's Jujutsu Tutorial - a hands-on intro to jj, the VCS that sits on top of Git.
tikz.dev
TikZ Editor - draw your LaTeX figures with a mouse instead of coordinates.
docs.deno.com
Deno Desktop: native desktop apps on the Deno runtime, an alternative to Electron and Tauri. Open source.
github.com
Boo: a terminal multiplexer built on libghostty, for people who think tmux and screen peaked too early. Young project.
github.com
Claw Patrol: a protocol-aware firewall for AI agents, parsing HTTP, Postgres and SSH to decide what your agent may actually do. See the intro for why you might want one.
brew.sh
Homebrew 6.0.0: a major release for the package manager half of us owe our laptops to, with a new trust mechanism for taps and Linux sandboxing.
