Top picks — 2025 Novermber
A developer's monthly roundup featuring tech articles on URL state management, lazygit, HTTP QUERY method, and a color palette tool, plus personal notes.
A developer's monthly roundup featuring tech articles on URL state management, lazygit, HTTP QUERY method, and a color palette tool, plus personal notes.
Announcing sqlite-utils 4.0a1, a Python library and CLI for SQLite, detailing minor backwards incompatible changes before the stable release.
Release of dns-benchmark-tool v0.3.2, a CLI tool for testing and comparing DNS server performance.
How to trigger Raycast's confetti animation from the command line using a custom shell script and the raycast:// protocol.
A guide to parakeet-mlx, a project porting NVIDIA's Parakeet ASR model to Apple's MLX framework for fast, local audio transcription.
A guide on using Docker to create a secure sandbox environment for running command-line AI tools, with practical examples.
A developer's journey to discovering and adopting lazygit, a powerful Git UI tool, and an exploration of its benefits for productivity and UX design.
Announcing updates to HTML Minifier Next: better minification, improved CLI, clearer docs, and a switch to Lightning CSS for CSS processing.
Introducing Jujutsu VCS, a modern, Git-compatible version control system with a more intuitive workflow based on mutable changes.
Explores GitHub Copilot CLI's new standalone tool, how to install it, and reveals how to inspect its underlying AI prompts and model configuration.
Explains how to use the --pattern parameter in Bicep CLI for bulk building and linting multiple Bicep template files using wildcards.
Introduces agent-rules, an open-source CLI tool that standardizes security and coding rules across AI coding assistants like GitHub Copilot and Cursor.
A tutorial on parsing command-line arguments in Node.js using the built-in util.parseArgs API, with examples from a real CLI project.
A tutorial on setting up a three-node Postgres cluster using EDB's PGD CLI for high availability and logical replication in AWS.
Introducing Sentire, a command-line interface for the Sentry API written in Go, designed for developers to query issues and events.
A guide to building a custom CLI coding agent using the Pydantic-AI framework and Model Context Protocol for project-specific development tasks.
A guide to CLI tools that offer preview, dry-run, or non-destructive modes to safely test commands before execution.
A guide to using an open-source command-line tool for populating Azure Storage Accounts with demo data for testing, training, and dashboard visualization.
Explores the new `dnx` command in .NET 10 preview for running .NET tools without installing them, similar to npx in Node.js.
Introducing Log Basset, an open-source Go CLI tool for querying and tailing Scalyr logs with improved features and performance.