Daily developer tools intelligence: new repos, hot projects, and version tracking. Each entry includes a plain-English explanation of what it actually does.
dongshuyan/compass-skills (★247 · Python)
中文 · Security · License > Start here: Use & develop your own Skill ecosystem > > A practical tutorial for using SKILL.md, auditing reusable skills, drafting skills with AI, extracting real workflows, and building a local Skill ecosystem.
nico81/iContainer (★96 · Swift)
API and updates on each published release once the repo is public. --> A native macOS app to manage Apple Container workloads — containers, images, logs, stats, and an interactive shell — built with SwiftUI on top of the official container CLI.
Vectorurvary/Topaz-Photo-Video-AI-Setup (★75) One-command installer for Topaz AI — upscale images and video to 4K/8K, remove noise, sharpen and recover faces with AI
Fuchsiabincram/JetBrains-Toolbox-All-IDEs (★51) One-command installer for JetBrains Toolbox — IntelliJ IDEA, PyCharm, WebStorm, CLion and GoLand with settings sync
DelivererReveal/JetBrains-IntelliJ-PyCharm-2026 (★51)
JetBrains 2026 — IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate, PyCharm Professional, WebStorm and DataGrip with AI Assistant ---
StratumManateeSpirit/Topaz-Video-AI-4K-Upscaler (★51)
Topaz AI 2026 — Photo AI and Video AI with noise removal, sharpening, face recovery, frame interpolation and 4K upscaling ---
Jack182617/btc-solo-lab (★31 · Shell)
BTC Solo Lab is an open-source desktop and CLI lab for safely experiencing the real Bitcoin mainnet solo mining path. It is not a profitability tool. It is a bounded learning environment for seeing real Stratum work, Bitcoin mainnet jobs, local sha256d hashing, share feedback, logs, and process state without running a local Bitcoin Core full node...
mralaminahamed/wp-dev-skills (★19 · PHP) 17 WordPress plugin development skills for Claude Code — shipped as an installable plugin and a standalone marketplace. Skills activate automatically when their description matches your task. No slash commands needed.
NotKiwy/wsup (★18 · Rust) --- wsup (pronounced "what's up") is a terminal UI for monitoring and managing processes running on localhost ports. Built with Rust and ratatui. Features • Installation •
mahiatlinux/aerollm (★15 · TypeScript) A local LLM chat app for Apple Silicon Macs. It browses and downloads models from Hugging Face, runs them on-device with MLX, and can expose an OpenAI-compatible API for other apps. Inference runs locally. Its only network use is Hugging Face for model search and downloads, plus the optional speech feature, which downloads its runtime
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 — v4.1.9
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 — v4.101.0
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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