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Tab Roundup – August
Dolt – it’s MySQL but with git in it, so you can have version control in your database?!
On AI:
Risks and controls for multi-agent systems, report commissioned by the Australian federal government looking at how AI agents communicate across organisational boundaries.
Agentic Code Review, an insightful look at why reviewing code is now the bottleneck in software development.
canary, “a QA harness purpose built for coding agents like Claude Code. It reads your code diffs, identifies the affected UI flows, and tests them in real browser instances using Claude Code”.
On APIs and data wrangling:
Meltano, an open source “declarative code-first data integration engine” (with a commercial cloud version with the usual support – no visible pricing).
APISIX, an open source system from the Apache Foundation to manage API services.
On neat tools:
liteparse, a standalone OSS tool for fast parsing of PDF documents (web demo)
On peer-to-peer:
slskd, a web-based open source client for Soulseek, which I’ve somehow never heard of until I randomly stumbled across it on HN.
On technical reading lists:
This OPML for a bunch of blogs, derived from an HN Popularity Contest.
On the ongoing complete and utter collapse of the Internet as a useful tool: