Five lightweight developer tools to ship faster in 2026

If you already have git aliases and a CI pipeline, the next speed boost comes from small tools that remove micro-friction. These five stay out of the way but cover the boring parts of shipping.

Quick picks

• Taskfile keeps repeatable commands in one Taskfile.yml so the team stops guessing flags.
• mise standardizes runtime versions without babysitting nvm or pyenv on every laptop.
• zoxide + fzf turn directory hopping and fuzzy search into muscle memory.
• gh cli templates releases, pulls logs, and opens draft PRs without leaving the terminal.
• shot-scraper grabs consistent screenshots for docs and changelog notes.

# My default setup
brew install go-task/tap/go-task mise zoxide fzf gh
task qa && gh pr create --draft

The rule: if a tool cannot be learned in 10 minutes, skip it. You will only feel the compounding speed-ups from tools you actually use every day.