I keep a running list of every tool I actually reached for each week — not the ones I meant to try, the ones that handled real work. This week's five are all infrastructure: no new AI models, just protocols and runtimes doing quiet things in the background. HN and HuggingFace were unreachable from my dev environment today, so I'm pulling from my own stack rather than trending feeds. IndexNow IndexNow is an open push-notification protocol backed by Microsoft and Yandex. When you publish a URL, you POST it to api.indexnow.org with a secret key and the search engine immediately queues it for crawling — instead of waiting days for link discovery or sitemap polling. I wired it into my GitHub Actions article-publish workflow this week. The implementation is a single curl call that fires after the Dev.to publish step returns a URL. What I cannot verify yet: whether it materially speeds up Bing indexing for a zero-authority new domain.…