Daily developer tools intelligence: new repos, hot projects, and version tracking. Each entry includes a plain-English explanation of what it actually does.
DietrichGebert/ponytail (★428 · JavaScript) --- You know him. Long ponytail. Oval glasses. Has been at the company longer than the version control. You show him fifty lines; he looks at them, says nothing, and replaces them with one. Ponytail puts him inside your AI agent.
TestSprite/testsprite-cli (★45 · TypeScript)
AI ships code in minutes — verifying it hasn't. testsprite opens your live app, uses it like a real user, and shows your coding agent exactly what broke — so it fixes its own work before a bug ever reaches you. ⭐ Help us reach more developers and grow the TestSprite community. Star this repo! ---
Nanako0129/TokenBar (★36 · Swift) TokenBar sits in your menu bar and shows what you're spending across 25+ AI coding agents — Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, OpenCode, Gemini CLI and more — read on-device from your local session logs. No Dock icon, no telemetry, no account.
Ishannaik/agent-sweep (★16 · Python) Find and redact secrets in your AI coding agent's local history. Fully offline. > Prevention: Don't paste API keys into cloud-backed AI agents at all — the key transits the provider's servers before it ever hits your disk.
Nam-Cheol/codex-fable-mode (★15)
English README fable-mode는 Codex가 사용자의 의도에 맞춰 산출물 형태, 사고 깊이, 절차, 도구 사용량을 먼저 잠그고 필요한 만큼만 움직이도록 돕는 문서 전용 플러그인입니다. 설치되는 스킬은 하나뿐입니다. 사용자는 항상 $fable-mode만 호출하면 됩니다. 이 스킬은 하네스도, 두 번째 런타임도, 딱딱한 spec generator도 아닙니다. 단순 질문은 바로 답하고, 작은 수정은 최소한으로 확인해 고치며, 구현 작업은 계획-구현-검증으로 마무리하고, 모호한 제품/디자인/아키텍처 작업은 더 깊게 의도를 잡습니다.
bigmacfive/turbo-graph (★12 · Rust)
turbovec made embeddings small. turbo-graph makes constrained retrieval operational. When your RAG query is no longer just top_k, but: ```text
ali-meoo/meoo-cli (★9) 秒悟（Meoo）官方命令行工具，让 Claude Code、Codex、Cursor、Qoder 等本地 AI 助手在帮你写完前端代码后，能直接接管「数据库、用户登录、文件存储、部署上线」的所有云端工作——你只需要在终端跑一条命令，剩下的交给 AI。 > 完整文档索引 > 获取所有可用文档页面的完整列表。
ayushcody/directree (★9 · Rust)
AI-optimized project tree. Fast. Efficient. Context-ready. directree gives you a clean, signal-rich view of your project structure — purpose-built for pasting into AI context windows. Filters noise automatically, adds semantic annotations, and estimates token cost. ``` my-app/
criccomini/outcrop (★7 · Rust) An outcrop is where rock strata surface: visible, layer by layer, without digging. Outcrop is a read-only web dashboard that does the same for SlateDB: it inspects databases directly from object storage, layer by layer.
ruvnet/ruv-neural (★5 · Rust)
Open-source brain-computer interface (BCI) and neural signal-processing > framework in Rust. Real-time EEG / quantum-sensor (NV-diamond, OPM) > connectivity analysis: DSP → brain-network graph → dynamic minimum-cut > topology → cognitive-state decoding. Edge (ESP32) + WebAssembly + cryptographic
vite — v8.0.16
A build tool and dev server for modern web projects. Starts instantly (no bundling in dev), uses native ES modules in the browser, and bundles with Rollup for production. The replacement for webpack in most new projects.
esbuild — v0.28.1
A JavaScript and TypeScript bundler written in Go. Extremely fast — 10-100x faster than webpack or Rollup. Used as the engine inside Vite and many other tools. Good for simple bundling; less configurable than webpack.
turbo — v2.9.18
A build system for JavaScript/TypeScript monorepos. Caches task results so you only re-run what changed. Built by Vercel. Speeds up CI and local builds in large codebases with multiple packages.
biome — v0.3.3
A single tool that replaces both ESLint and Prettier. Formats and lints JavaScript, TypeScript, JSON, and CSS. Written in Rust, so it runs much faster than the JS-based tools it replaces.
bun — v1.3.14
A JavaScript runtime, package manager, bundler, and test runner in one. Faster than Node.js at most things. Drop-in compatible with most Node.js code. Written in Zig.
vitest — v4.1.8
A unit testing framework built specifically for Vite projects. Uses the same config as your Vite build, runs tests in the browser environment, and is significantly faster than Jest.
oxc — v1.0.1
A JavaScript/TypeScript toolchain written in Rust — parser, linter, formatter, transpiler, bundler. The project behind the oxlint linter. Faster than most existing tools by a large margin.
rspack — v0.1.1
A webpack-compatible bundler written in Rust. Drop-in replacement for webpack with the same config format, but much faster. Built by ByteDance (TikTok's parent).
wrangler — v4.100.0
The CLI for deploying and managing Cloudflare Workers — serverless functions that run at the edge in Cloudflare's global network. Also manages KV storage, Durable Objects, Pages, and R2.
drizzle-orm — v0.45.2
A TypeScript ORM that lets you write SQL-like queries in TypeScript with full type safety. Lightweight, no code generation step, and closer to raw SQL than ORMs like Prisma.
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Pokémon Go players unwittingly contributed to tech with military drone uses (Ars Technica) The repurposing of Pokémon Go data for AI training continues to draw scrutiny.
Verizon sent man a refurbished phone with MDM, then deleted his data remotely (Ars Technica) Failure raises questions about how Verizon prepares refurbished phones for new users.
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