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TLDR Dev is a free newsletter for software engineers covering programming news, tools, and web development in a 5-minute read. It's part of the TLDR network and has 470,000 subscribers, and it now includes the web development coverage that used to be a separate edition. Each story links to the source.

TLDR Dev is built for working developers who want the day's programming news, libraries, and tools without scrolling feeds. Its 470,000 subscribers are software engineers across the stack, from front-end to back-end.

Yes. The TLDR Dev newsletter is free to read, with no paywall, and it is sent every weekday.

Each issue covers software engineering practices and deep dives, AI agents and AI-assisted development, developer tools, libraries and frameworks and front-end, back-end and full-stack news. Every story is summarized in a few sentences with a link to the original source.

The TLDR Dev newsletter delivers the latest software development news every weekday: engineering, AI agents and developer tools. Each story is summarized in a few sentences with a link to the source, and an issue takes about five minutes to read. It is free.