Best of DevTools — February 2026

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GitHub Changelog·10w
Repository dashboard is now generally available
GitHub's repository dashboard is now generally available after a public preview period. The GA release adds two new features: an Admin Access view that surfaces all repositories where you have admin permissions, and command palette integration for faster navigation. The dashboard lets users find, filter, and save custom views of repositories they have access to, with built-in views for contributions, personal repos, forks, and admin access. It's accessible via github.com/repos, the global navigation bar, or the command palette.
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daily.dev Changelog·12w
Achievement Unlocked: Your Professional Side Quest Begins
daily.dev launched an achievements system with over 50 unlockable badges designed to gamify professional development. The feature includes quick wins and long-term progression achievements, a dedicated achievement page, and public leaderboards. Users can either sync past activity to unlock earned achievements instantly or start fresh to experience each unlock in real-time.
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Product Hunt·11w
OpenFlowKit: The open-source diagram engine that thinks like you.
OpenFlowKit is a free, open-source diagram engine aimed at engineers, architects, and product teams. It offers a fully customizable diagram creation experience and is positioned as a craft-focused alternative for technical users who need flexible diagramming tools.
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Product Hunt·13w
Snap: The floating dock for developers
Snap is a floating dock application designed for developers using Cursor and Claude Code. It provides features like productivity reels, screenshots, speech-to-text, prompt generation and optimization, console error copying, visual editing, web preview, and custom action buttons. The tool is available across Windows, Mac, and Linux platforms.
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Vibe Coding·13w
How Peter Steinberger Ships at 10x Speed
Peter Steinberger, creator of OpenClaw and former PSPDFKit founder, shares his approach to building at exceptional speed using AI coding agents. His methodology centers on running 5-10 agents in parallel across separate git checkouts, using Gemini for spec generation and Claude Codex for implementation. He advocates for CLI tools over MCPs for composability, emphasizes closing verification loops so agents can self-correct, and positions humans as the "taste layer" providing vision while agents handle execution. Key insights include avoiding over-engineered AI tooling, using voice input over typing, validating locally before merging, and treating user feedback from Discord as direct feature requests. He built 43 projects before achieving viral success, demonstrating that shipping constantly and learning from failures is essential.
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Einenlum - Coding amongst alpacas and pinball machines·14w
Git Shitstorm: How to Make Any Developer Lose Their Mind
A developer created a prank tool called Git Shitstorm that silently corrupts Git history by randomly inserting code changes from the repository. The tool works by aliasing the git command and acting like Russian roulette—90% of the time it does nothing, but 10% of the time it selects random files, authors, and code snippets to inject into commits. Implemented in Go for speed, it adds minimal latency (under 100ms) making it nearly undetectable. The author emphasizes this is for educational and entertainment purposes only, warning against using it maliciously on coworkers' repositories.
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Zed·12w
Introducing Theme Builder — Zed's Blog
Zed launches Theme Builder, a visual editor for creating custom editor themes without editing JSON. The tool features live preview, an inspector to identify which tokens control specific UI elements, color linking to maintain consistency across related elements, and Tree-sitter-powered syntax highlighting that matches Zed exactly. Users can import existing themes, make changes with instant visual feedback, and export as theme overrides or extensions. The interface uses CSS custom properties for instant updates and includes undo/redo support with local storage persistence.
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daily.dev World·11w
Help us escape the "Obsolete!!" delete button
daily.dev is soliciting community feedback on what features or changes would make developers immediately install the browser extension. Suggested areas include better tab management, improved AI summaries, and deeper IDE integration, with an open invitation for other suggestions.
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InfoQ·12w
Shadcn Releases Visual Project Builder
Shadcn launched a visual project builder accessible via `npx shadcn create` that lets developers customize their entire project setup—including themes, component libraries, icon sets, and design systems—before writing any code. The tool supports Next.js, Vite, and TanStack Start frameworks, offers real-time design previews with options for Radix UI or Base UI foundations, and generates a custom command with all selected parameters. This design-first approach eliminates repetitive manual setup work and aligns with shadcn's philosophy of giving developers complete code ownership by copying components directly into projects rather than distributing them as npm packages.
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Theo - t3․gg·14w
OpenAI just dropped their Cursor killer
OpenAI released Codeex, a new AI coding tool combining CLI, web app, and desktop application for managing AI agents across projects. Unlike traditional code editors, it provides a GUI for orchestrating multiple parallel coding tasks, with features like work trees, cloud environments, automations, and cross-project thread management. The tool shares history between CLI and app, supports multiple editors, and enables developers to manage several concurrent development tasks simultaneously. While work tree implementation has limitations and environment variable management needs improvement, the orchestration layer represents a shift from direct code editing to agent management workflows.
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Product Hunt·12w
claude-devtools: See everything Claude Code hides from your terminal
claude-devtools is an open-source tool that visualizes hidden Claude Code activity by parsing local session logs. It reconstructs file operations, tool calls, diffs, and token usage into a visual timeline with context attribution, compaction visualization, subagent execution trees, and custom notifications. Unlike GUI wrappers, it doesn't modify Claude Code—it simply reads existing logs to reveal what the CLI doesn't show.
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Product Hunt·13w
spacecake: the best interface for Claude Code
spacecake is an open-source desktop application that provides a visual interface for Claude Code agents. It combines a Notion-style markdown editor with an integrated Ghostty terminal, allowing developers to run AI agents while editing markdown content. The app includes a real-time status bar showing context window usage and costs, plus a tasks panel for monitoring agent activities and upcoming actions.
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Serdarcan Buyukdereli·13w
The Ultimate Open Source Directory is Here!
Infinity Dev Tools has launched an updated directory featuring over 300 curated open-source tools with real-time GitHub star tracking, new categories, and fast search functionality to help developers discover tools for their tech stack.
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Atomic Spin·13w
Just Use Mise
Version managers allow developers to install and switch between multiple versions of programming languages and tools on a per-project basis. Mise is recommended over asdf due to its more flexible TOML-based configuration, faster performance as a Rust-compiled binary, simpler command syntax, and more predictable error handling. While asdf pioneered the category, mise offers a more modern approach with richer features and better reliability for managing development environments across multiple projects.
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Product Hunt·10w
PeonPing: Stop babysitting your terminal
PeonPing is a developer productivity tool that sends sound and desktop notifications when AI coding agents (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, etc.) finish tasks, encounter errors, or need approval. It features 100+ game-themed sound packs (Warcraft, StarCraft, GLaDOS, TF2), an animated desktop Orc Tamagotchi, and an MCP server that lets agents choose their own sounds — helping developers stay in flow without constantly watching the terminal.
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Theo - t3․gg·12w
GLM-5 is unbelievable (Opus for 20% the cost??)
GLM-5, a new open-weight AI model from Chinese lab Zhipu AI, delivers performance comparable to Claude Opus 4.5 and Codex 5.2 at roughly 20% of the cost. With 744 billion parameters (40B active via mixture-of-experts), it excels at long-running agentic tasks, successfully completing hour-long code migrations that previously required closed-weight models. The model achieves the lowest hallucination rate on benchmarks to date, costs $3 per million output tokens versus $15-18 for top closed models, and is MIT-licensed without usage restrictions. While lacking multimodal image support, it demonstrates strong capabilities in code refactoring, UI generation, and extended autonomous work sessions.
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GitHub Changelog·11w
GitHub Copilot support in Zed generally available
GitHub Copilot now officially supports authentication with the Zed code editor through a formal partnership. Developers with paid Copilot subscriptions (Pro, Pro+, Business, or Enterprise) can sign in directly from Zed's settings and use their existing subscription without any additional AI license. Zed is a high-performance, multiplayer code editor built in Rust by the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter.
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Code Like A Girl·13w
I Became a Developer Again Without Meaning To
A former developer returns to coding after 15+ years to build a gender diversity tracker for Substack's Technology leaderboards. The journey involves learning modern tools (VS Code, GitHub, Chrome extensions) with AI assistance (ChatGPT, Copilot), pivoting from UI scraping to API calls, and ultimately settling on a Python/SQLite/Streamlit stack. The project highlights both the challenges of being a beginner again and the accessibility of building with AI as a co-pilot.
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Visual Studio Blog·13w
Roadmap for AI in Visual Studio (February)
Microsoft's February roadmap for AI in Visual Studio focuses on reliability and refinement rather than new features. Key improvements include better agent stability with enhanced progress indicators, failure handling, and diagnostics. The update introduces early work on a Planning Agent for multi-step tasks, continues Model Context Protocol (MCP) integration, and improves context management for large codebases. Editor experience enhancements address keyboard shortcuts, IntelliSense conflicts, and smoother Copilot integration. The team is also beginning experimental work to integrate Copilot CLI into Visual Studio.
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AICodeKing·13w
Codex Desktop App + Free GPT-5.2 Codex (Tested): Is OpenAI now copying Conductor,Commander?
OpenAI launched a desktop app for Codex (GPT-5.2), available free for a month and currently macOS-only. The app provides a graphical interface with features like skills, automations, and work trees, drawing comparisons to Conductor. However, the review highlights numerous UI/UX issues including inconsistent design, buggy interfaces, poor context handling, unintuitive controls (like the plan mode toggle), and problematic VS Code integration that spawns multiple instances. The reviewer suggests competitors like Verdant offer superior agentic interfaces despite OpenAI's resources.
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Chrome Developers·12w
What's new in DevTools (Chrome 145)
Chrome 145 DevTools brings significant performance and debugging improvements. Key updates include soft navigation visibility in trace view for SPAs, more precise line-level profiler timings for minified code, faster trace interaction, and a new render-blocking column in the Network panel. The DevTools MCP server now supports auto-connection and unified emulation. Additional enhancements include individual network request throttling, @starting-style debugging, multimodal AI assistance with image input, and numerous accessibility improvements for screen readers and high contrast modes.
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TechCrunch·10w
India disrupts access to popular developer platform Supabase with blocking order
India's government issued a blocking order on February 24 under Section 69A of the IT Act, disrupting access to Supabase — a popular open-source Firebase alternative — across major ISPs including JioFiber, Airtel, and ACT Fibernet. No reason was publicly given for the block. India is Supabase's fourth-largest market, accounting for ~9% of global traffic, with visits up 179% year-over-year. Developers in India reported inability to access the platform for both development and production use. Supabase suggested DNS changes or VPNs as workarounds but acknowledged these aren't practical for end users. The incident echoes India's 2014 temporary block of GitHub and raises broader concerns about the country's opaque website-blocking regime and its impact on the developer ecosystem.
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Dev Tools·13w
Claude code : Training resources?
A request for training resources to help a team improve their usage of Claude code. The author is seeking recommendations for educational materials or best practices.
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Zed·13w
How Our Community Shipped 66 Git Improvements In Under 2 Months — Zed's Blog
Zed's eight-week community sprint "Let's Git Together" resulted in 66 shipped improvements to Git functionality, including 5 major features like file history view and tree view for the Git panel. The program paired Zed team members with community contributors through weekly pairing sessions and biweekly demo days, successfully addressing 28 bugs and 33 additional improvements. Key features included file history viewing, Git blame avatars for multiple platforms, remote management UI, and branch deletion capabilities, with contributors like @errmayank (10 contributions) and @Anthony-Eid (6 contributions) leading the effort.
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Product Hunt·10w
VibePad: Control AI coding assistants with a gamepad from your couch
VibePad is a free, open-source macOS menu bar app that maps a gamepad controller to keyboard shortcuts for AI coding tools like Claude Code and Codex. It enables couch-friendly vibe coding workflows with buttons mapped to common actions: X to approve, O to reject, L2 trigger for hold-to-talk dictation, and right stick for scrolling. Configuration is done via a JSON file for custom remapping. Built natively in Swift with no account or subscription required. The creator originally built it as a joke and ended up using VibePad itself during its own development.
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