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Editors, CLIs, and IDE integrations that change how developers write and ship code.

Dev ToolsAug 31, 20263 min read

Grok 4.6 Hits Microsoft Foundry Preview: What Ships

Grok 4.6 is in public preview in Microsoft Foundry with a 200K context window, selectable reasoning effort, and one deployment wrinkle worth knowing first.

Dev ToolsAug 31, 20263 min read

Amazon Q vs Cody: Neither Is Sold to Individuals in 2026

Amazon Q Developer closed new signups on 15 May 2026 and Cody's individual tiers ended in July 2025, so every Q vs Cody price comparison is stale.

Dev ToolsAug 29, 20264 min read

Hybrid Search in Postgres: pgvector, Full-Text, and RRF

Vector search misses exact error codes and SKUs. How Reciprocal Rank Fusion merges dense and sparse results in one Postgres query, with the schema.

Dev ToolsAug 28, 20263 min read

CVE-2026-35603: World-Writable Windows Config Hits AI CLIs

Four AI coding CLIs load Windows config from a world-writable folder and run hooks from it. Anthropic patched it as CVE-2026-35603; three had not.

Dev ToolsAug 28, 20263 min read

Microduck: Hugging Face's $399 Open-Source RL Robot

Hugging Face's Microduck preorders at $399 with onboard LiDAR, an 800g beak grip and a full RL stack on GitHub. How it compares to Reachy Mini.

Dev ToolsAug 26, 20264 min read

Azure Logic Apps as MCP servers: what the docs skip

1,400+ connectors become agent tools in preview, but Easy Auth is mandatory, API keys expire in 30 days at most, and the always-on plan is not free.

Dev ToolsAug 25, 20263 min read

AI agents pick your deps: 412 packages carry critical flaws

A scan of 95,338 npm, PyPI, crates.io and RubyGems packages found 412 with known critical findings - and agents now install deps no human reviewed.

Dev ToolsAug 23, 20264 min read

Claude Code vs eve: Same Models, eve Takes 7% Fewer Steps

Ora benchmarked Claude Code against Vercel's eve on live sites using the same models: 7% fewer steps, 2x native success, 9% more valid endpoints.

Dev ToolsAug 22, 20263 min read

Fourteen Code Hosts Scanned: Zero MCP Server Cards Found

An independent scan of 14 code hosts on August 22 found zero MCP server cards, zero API catalogs and a top score of Level 1 of 5 across the sample.

Dev ToolsAug 21, 20265 min read

Build a Tool-Calling AI Agent in Node.js, No Framework

A walkthrough of the OpenAI Responses API tool-calling loop in plain Node.js, plus the risk tiers and authorization rules that keep it safe in production.

Dev ToolsAug 19, 20263 min read

Claude Code Sandbox Escape Rated CVSS 7.7 on macOS

A glob-parsing flaw let a folder name widen Claude Code's macOS sandbox write rules, reaching hook config and running commands before authentication.

Dev ToolsAug 16, 20263 min read

EasyDMG Finally Automates the Mac App Install Dance

A free macOS utility, EasyDMG, fully automates the mount-drag-unmount-delete DMG ritual thats gone almost unchanged since Mac OS X launched 25 years ago.