We are a small desk covering the tools developers actually use, written by people who actually use them.
Most tech coverage is a rewritten press release. Somebody ships a thing, a dozen outlets summarise the announcement post within the hour, and nobody involved has opened a terminal. We started WhatJustShipped because that is not useful to anyone.
We run the thing before we write about it. If a repo claims a 25x speedup, we benchmark it. If Reddit is losing its mind over an agent mode, we test every claim in the thread. When something turns out to be worse than advertised, we say so, and when it is genuinely good we say that too.
That means we publish less than the aggregators. Two to four pieces a week, each one carrying something you cannot get from the README: a benchmark, a migration we actually attempted, a comparison against the alternative you are already using.
Four areas: tech and AI news worth your attention, hands-on tutorials, trending repositories with the data behind why they are trending, and The Watercooler, where we synthesise what developers are arguing about across Reddit, Hacker News, and X.
Display advertising, clearly marked. Advertisers have no input on what we cover or what we conclude. If we ever run sponsored content it will be labelled as such, at the top, in a way you cannot miss.
More on how the work gets made is in our editorial policy.