Matt Shumer opens this week with a provocative question: do you remember February 2020? He's watching something similarly big unfold — and after reading this issue, you might agree.
If agents had a union, they'd be picketing for better tooling. This week alone: GitHub launches Agentic Workflows with guardrails for running coding agents in GitHub Actions, Stripe rolls out Minions for one-shot end-to-end coding tasks, Google ships Gemini CLI to bring its AI agent into your terminal, Vercel Labs drops just-bash to make shell scripts agent-friendly, and Stably AI releases agent-slack so agents can ping your team on Slack (the bots have joined the standup). GitHub's Copilot SDK also hits technical preview, opening programmatic access for custom integrations.
PostHog's reminder is worth highlighting: shipping too fast has a hidden danger — product velocity can outstrip user adoption, leaving features nobody uses in its wake.
On the tools front: Wes McKinney (the pandas creator, because apparently building one essential developer tool isn't enough) launched msgvault, a DuckDB-powered private email archive with terminal UI and an MCP server. Mitchell Hashimoto is tackling online trust with Vouch — community management based on explicit vouches rather than follower counts. And Rari shows React Server Components don't have to be slow: Rust runtime, 9.1x faster responses, 46.5x higher throughput than Next.js.
Wrapping up: Evan You talks about Vite, VoidZero, and why Rust is the future of JavaScript tooling.
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Find the 12 highlighted links of weeklyfoo #124:
by Matt Shumer
Think back to February 2020.
🚀 Read it!, ai
by Github
Repository automation, running the coding agents you know and love, with strong guardrails in GitHub Actions.
📰 Good to know, ai, github
The hidden danger of shipping fast
by Cleo
What to do when product velocity breaks the speed of adoption
📰 Good to know, shipping, engineering
Copilot SDK in technical preview
by Github
The Copilot SDK is now available in technical preview, providing language-specific SDKs for programmatic access to the GitHub Copilot CLI.
📰 Good to know, ai, github, copilot
by Alistair Gray
Stripe’s one-shot, end-to-end coding agents
📰 Good to know, ai, stripe
by Wes McKinney
Lightning fast private email archive and search system, with terminal UI and MCP server, powered by DuckDB
📰 Good to know, email, mcp, cli
by Stably AI
Slack automation CLI for AI agents
🧰 Tools, ai, slack
by Mitchell Hashimoto
A community trust management system based on explicit vouches to participate.
🧰 Tools, community, trust, management
by Google
An open-source AI agent that brings the power of Gemini directly into your terminal.
🧰 Tools, ai, terminal
by Vercel Labs
Bash for Agents
🧰 Tools, ai, bash
by rari.build
High-performance React Server Components framework powered by a Rust runtime, delivering 9.1x faster response times (0.43ms vs 3.92ms) and 46.5x higher throughput (74,662 vs 1,605 req/sec) than Next.js with zero-config setup.
🧰 Tools, react, server, rust, performance
Vite, Rust & The Future of JavaScript Tooling
by Evan You
In this episode, Evan You, creator of Vue.js and Vite, shares his journey from building Vite to founding VoidZero and developing a complete Rust-based JavaScript toolchain.
📺 Videos, js, rust, tools
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