Things I learned during the week ending February 22, 2026.
brew install git-trim git-trim - A dedicated binary for safely deleting merged branches. Handles edge cases better than bash one-liners, including squash-merged branches. #
slingdata-io/sling-cli is a promising tool move/sync data between databases and files, esp. helpful for local testing, ci/cd while able to do stage/sql based transformations.
https://modern-css.com/ has a really nice collection of CSS replacements for older hacks.
panphora/overtype: The markdown editor that’s just a textarea with a small size footprint and a minimum looking UI https://overtype.dev (⭐3431) #markdown
For generating embedding locally, nomic-embed-text is a large context length text encoder that surpasses OpenAI text-embedding-ada-002 and text-embedding-3-small performance on short and long context tasks. It has a balance of speed, 8k context, and accuracy for English-centric apps. BGE-M3, Qwen3-Embedding and E5-Small are other alternatives. #embeddings
alibaba/zvec by alibaba is an embedded vector database supports both spare and dense vectors, along with structured data. It can be considered the sqlite of vector databases.
yichuan-w/LEANN is a RAG focused framework focused on efficient storage with built-in chunking strategies embedding model management and MCP server. gemini
K-dense known for using skills to enable deep research has published 140+ skills related to scientic research including literature review, data analysis, etc.