Tools

In ‘Next Generation Tooling for Developers’ I wondered how these venture-backed companies would make money. Since then most of them have been acquired: Anthropic bought Oven, the company behind Bun; Cloudflare bought Astro and VoidZero; and OpenAI bought Astral.

OpenCode is the open-source agentic CLI tool that both Anthropic and Google moved to block from their subscription APIs. Here’s a hands-on look at what makes it genuinely different, and whether it’s worth switching from Claude Code.

Comparison of Playwright MCP server vs. Chrome DevTools MCP server

How to set up new Node.js projects, with linting and formatting using Oxc.

Overview of Lima and Colima on macOS, how they differ, install commands, Docker usage examples, and Apple’s native Container runtime.

In recent months I have been learning about Astral, and have started using uv and ruff. This led me to try to find similar tools for other languages.

I have recently learned about uv and the uv workflow. Since then, I’ve been using uv a lot more, both for personal projects and at work!

Comparison of Claude Code vs. Cursor CLI vs. Gemini CLI vs. Codex CLI

Hands-on impressions of GPT-5 across ChatGPT, Cursor CLI, and Microsoft Copilot, plus notes on quotas, hallucinations, and the auto-router trade-offs.

Today I learned, in Kubernetes v1.34, kubectl will also support a new strict subset of YAML called KYAML.

Hands-on review of OpenAI o3: deep research-style answers, multi-source web lookups, latency tradeoffs, and comparisons to ChatGPT 4o/4.5/4.1.