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One Tip a Week: Reclaim Disk Space From Old Coding Projects
8th June 2026 This week's tip of the week is Kondo . Do you have a folder full of old coding projects that you swear you’re going to come back to? Same. The problem is that those projects are usually dragging aroun...
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One Tip a Week: Before You npm Install That Package
1st June 2026 This week's tip of the week is Socket Firewall Free . I’ve been using Socket’s GitHub app in my OSS projects , but for some reason, I wasn’t using Socket’s firewall locally. Sébastien Lorber, who runs...
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One Tip a Week: Replace Three Screenshot Tools with One Open-Source App
25th May 2026 This week's tip of the week is Snapzy . I’m a daily CleanShot X user, so I was curious how much friction I’d hit by switching to Snapzy. For the past week, I’ve purposely stopped using CleanShot X and...
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One Tip a Week: Stop Drawing Boxes by Hand
18th May 2026 This week's tip of the week is Excalidraw MCP . I've been reaching for this a lot lately. When I was building an i nteractive demo for Pomerium (where I work) and needed a diagram showing the flow. My...
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One Tip a Week: git diff Deserves Better
11th May 2026 This week's tip of the week is hunk . You know the moment. You run git diff and get a wall of red and green text with no real way to navigate it. It's fine for a two-line change. It's not fine for any...
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One Tip a Week: Use Claude Code for Free
4th May 2026 This week's tip of the week is running open weight models (commonly called open source models) with Claude Code . Most people assume Claude Code requires an Anthropic API key or subscription. It doesn...
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One Tip a Week: See Exactly What Your App Is Sending Over the Wire
27th April 2026 This week's tip of the week is mitmproxy , an open source tool for intercepting, inspecting, and replaying network requests. Think Charles Proxy or Fiddler, but open source with your choice of interfa...
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One Tip a Week: Your JSON Formatter Is Spying on You
20th April 2026 This week's tip of the week is JSON Alexander . If you work with APIs, you've probably had some kind of JSON formatter browser extension installed for years. Maybe it was JSON Formatter. I did too, un...
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One Tip a Week: Give Your AI Agent Design Taste
13th April 2026 This week's tip of the week is Impeccable , a set of AI agent skills. Most of us have accepted that AI agents are great at generating code but will reliably produce the same forgettable UI: Inter font...
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One Tip a Week: Stop Localhost Port Roulette
6th April 2026 This week's tip of the week is Portless . If you juggle multiple local apps, you know the dance: port conflicts, wrong browser tabs showing the wrong app, and constantly forgetting whether that API wa...
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One Tip a Week: Stop Using 20 Random Dev Utility Sites
30th March 2026 This week's tip of the week is DevToys . You need to decode base64. You open a site. Then you need to format JSON. Different site. Test a regex? Another tab. JWT decode? Now you're just hoping none of...
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One Tip a Week: Stop Typing Full Directory Paths Like It's 1995
23rd March 2026 This week's tip of the week is zoxide . Think of it as cd with a brain. You know the drill. You cd into the same directories over and over. Maybe it's buried five levels deep. Maybe you typo it half t...
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One Tip a Week: Stop Shipping Broken Env Config
16th March 2026 This week's tip of the week is Varlock , a schema-first way to manage your environment variables. If you have ever had a deploy break because someone forgot to add an env var to CI, a value was malfor...
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One Tip a Week: Say Hello to Bruno
9th March 2026 This week's tip of the week is Bruno . If you've ever used a tool like Postman or Insomnia to test APIs, your collections (saved requests) live in their cloud, not in your project. That means they're...
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One Tip a Week: Stop Using cat
2nd March 2026 This week's tip of the week is bat . Before we dig in, this week’s newsletter post is sponsored by ShipSite ! Tired of schlepping access tokens to your agents just to deploy a simple website? ShipSite...
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One Tip a Week: Stop Writing .gitignore Files by Hand
23rd February 2026 This week's tip of the week is the gitignore CLI. Sure, when you spin up a new Next.js or Vite project, you get a .gitignore file automatically. But what about when you're building something from scra...
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One Tip a Week: Git Settings You're Probably Missing
16th February 2026 This week's tip of the week is about improving your git settings. Back in December, I shared git's rerere , a git config setting that auto-resolves repeated merge conflicts. If you haven't set that on...
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One Tip a Week: Clipboard Time Machine
9th February 2026 This week’s tip of the week is Raycast ’s Clipboard History extension ( macOS | Windows ). You copy an error message to ask Claude. Then copy a code fix. Then realize you need that original error mess...
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One Tip a Week: Say Goodbye to Plain ls
2nd February 2026 This week's tip of the week is eza . If you're still using the standard ls command, you need to check this out. eza is a modern, maintained fork of exa. It's a file lister that uses colours to disting...
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One Tip a Week: Valibot
26th January 2026 This week's tip of the week is Valibot , a schema validation library that's like Zod but smaller, faster, and built for what's next. First off, no shade to Zod, it’s awesome and seems to be the de fac...