Build a Dev Update Radar: Never Miss a Release

Drag to tilt & spin · toggling channels adds or removes satellites

Pick your channels

Each has a coverage payoff and a noise cost. Aim for high coverage, sane noise.

GitHub Release watchingWatch → Custom → Releases on repos you use Dependabot / RenovateBots PR version bumps into your repos Curated newslettersWeekly digests (JS/AI/dev) — humans pre-filter Changelog RSS feedsOfficial changelogs piped into one reader Social / X followsMaintainers announce here first — but endless scroll AI summarizer agentWeekly LLM digest of diffs in the docs you care about

Coverage55%

Noise / time cost25%

Skill CoreRead versions like a maintainer

Most update anxiety disappears once you can triage a release number in two seconds. Semantic versioning encodes risk directly: MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH. Press the buttons to bump the version and see exactly what each bump promises.

2.4.1

2.4.1 → baseline. Press a bump to see the triage rule for that change type.

The 20-Minute SetupA complete radar, step by step

List your top 10 tools (frameworks, CLIs, AI SDKs). If you wouldn't rebuild a project over its breaking change, it doesn't make the list.
On each GitHub repo: Watch → Custom → Releases only. This is the highest signal-to-noise feed that exists — release notes, nothing else.
Enable Dependabot or Renovate on your own repos. Updates now come to you as diffable PRs with changelogs attached, and CI tells you if they break anything.
Subscribe to one curated newsletter per domain, not five. Redundant digests triple noise for near-zero extra coverage.
Batch it: a 25-minute weekly slot to skim releases and merge bot PRs beats daily doomscrolling. Majors get a calendar entry, minors get a skim, patches get auto-merged when tests pass.