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News, releases and deep dives for the stack you actually use. Ranked for you, summarised once, and never the same story twice, even when five outlets cover it.
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$ devlr init
Devlr reads 121 developer sources, keeps what matters for what you build, and sends it as one email on your schedule. News, end-of-life warnings, and the repos worth knowing about.
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// modules
Each module has its own rhythm. Whatever is due on a given day is bundled together, so you never get more than one scheduled email a day.
News, releases and deep dives for the stack you actually use. Ranked for you, summarised once, and never the same story twice, even when five outlets cover it.
top story · news · deep dives
A heads-up at 90, 30 and 7 days before a version in your stack stops getting fixes. Dates come from the vendors.
Next.js 15 · 20 days left
New repositories that picked up stars fast, in the languages you write.
weekly · per language
Pick repos on GitHub. When a dependency is vulnerable, hijacked, deprecated or past end of life, you get one entry per package with the upgrade that clears it. Your source is never read.
$ npm install next@15.5.24
One system design question at your level, with hints. The worked answer is a click away.
design a rate limiter
What the companies you follow shipped, wrote and open-sourced.
shipped · wrote · in the news
Release notes for your dependencies and starred repos, with breaking changes called out.
breaking changes first
// one inbox
Sections are ordered by how soon you need to act: alerts, then lifecycles, then news, then things to learn from. An issue with nothing new is skipped, not padded.
repo guard → release radar → eol watch → digest → company radar → dev pulse → learn
// how it works
Pick your domains and your stack. That is the whole setup, and it takes about a minute.
$ devlr init --stack typescript,postgres
121 sources every two hours: official blogs, engineering write-ups, Hacker News, Lobsters. Duplicates are merged, filler is dropped.
$ devlr ingest --sources 121
On the days and at the hour you chose, in your timezone. If there is nothing worth sending, nothing is sent.
$ devlr send --when 08:00
// a real issue
Not a mock-up. This is the output of a real run on October 1 for someone who works with TypeScript, React and Postgres.
$ devlr read --issue 2026-10-01
EDG's C++ front end is now public under the C++ Alliance, and Shopify is leaving React Native for native development. Next.js 15 has 20 days of support left.
// top story
edgcpp.org · 212 points on HN · 3 min read
The source for EDG's C++ front end became public on September 30. The C++ Alliance has taken over stewardship and is accepting contributions.
// news
newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com · 13 min read
Shopify will stop using React Native and move to native mobile development. It cites AI coding tools that reduce the need for a cross-platform layer.
vercel.com
The agent can install private npm, pnpm and Yarn packages using shared environment variables. Credentials stay outside the sandbox, so the agent itself cannot read them.
// deep dives
nnethercote.github.io · 71 on Lobsters · 5 min read
Benchmarks from July to September show a 4.57% mean wall-time reduction, with 555 of 629 tests improving. Key contributors include PGO for Clippy and the LLVM 23 upgrade.
mechanicalrabbit.github.io · 37 on Lobsters · 9 min read
FunSQL offers a compositional, data-oriented interface that covers the full range of SQL features. That lets code generate complex queries programmatically.
// eol watch
Next.js 15
end of life 2026-10-21 · current is 16
PostgreSQL 14
end of life 2026-11-12 · current is 18
// dev pulse
7.3k stars · TypeScript
Z.ai's coding agent harness. Powerful, intelligent, extensible.
3.5k stars · TypeScript
A personal agent with a browser, terminal, files, and work that keeps going.
// principles
Coverage of one event is grouped into one item, and what you have been shown is remembered for 90 days.
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A model writes the summary. It does not decide what happened. Versions and dates are checked against the source before anything is sent.
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