10 Developer Tools I Used to Swear By (That I Completely Replaced in 2026)

Your dev stack from 2 years ago? Yeah, half of it is obsolete. I'm not even being dramatic. I looked at my setup from early 2024 and genuinely laughed. Tools I would've gone to war for on Twitter are just... gone from my machine. Uninstalled. Forgotten. And that's fine. That's how it should be. We get attached to our tools like they're part of our identity. "I'm a VS Code guy." "I use Postman, fight me." Then something better comes along and suddenly you can't remember why you were so loyal in the first place. Here are 10 tools I completely replaced this year, what I switched to, and why I'm not looking back. 1. Postman → Bruno I used Postman for years. It was the default. You needed to test an API? Postman. Every tutorial showed it, every job listing mentioned it. Then Postman started requiring an account. Then they added "workspaces." Then "teams." Then "collections sync." Suddenly a tool for sending HTTP requests needed a cloud account and wanted me to pay $12/month for... sending H