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Issue #674 • June 18, 2026
AI Tools, LLMs, etc.
Is Your Site Agent-Ready? — A web-based tool that lets you enter a URL and it will scan your website to see how ready it is for AI agents, by checking robots.txt, Markdown negotiation, MCP, OAuth, Agent Skills, etc.
Taste Skill — An anti-slop front-end framework that allows you to build designs that don't look overly generic, improving on layout, typography, motion, and spacing.
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Gemma Gem — An AI assistant that lives inside the browser, powered by Google's Gemma 4 model. It can read pages, click buttons, fill forms, run JavaScript, and answer questions about any site you visit.
caveman — A Claude Code skill/plugin (also for Codex, Gemini, Cursor, Windsurf, and 30+ more) that makes agents talk like a caveman, to cut ~75% of output tokens, while keeping full technical accuracy.
Prompt Library — A curated library of layout prompts for vibe coders. Pick a structure, copy the prompt, paste it into your AI tool, letting it match your screenshot's aesthetic.
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DESIGN.md Style Extractor — A Chrome extension that will extract page styles and generate DESIGN.md or SKILL.md files for use with Google Stitch, Claude, Codex, Cursor, etc.
Understand Anything — A Claude Code plugin, for understanding a new codebase, that analyzes a project, building a knowledge graph of every file, function, class, and dependency, and giving you an interactive dashboard to explore it all visually.
Hippo — A memory layer for AI agents, powered by SQLite under the hood, with zero runtime dependencies, and it works with every CLI agent.
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JSON Tools, Databases, etc.
TailwindSQL — A silly, not-for-production tool that allows you to use Tailwind-like classes instead of SQL database queries. Because why not?
DBcooper — A database client for PostgreSQL, SQLite, Redis, and ClickHouse, built with Tauri, React, and TypeScript.
actuallyEXPLAIN — A visualizer that helps you understand complex PostgreSQL queries in a diagram and 'dictionarized' form.
The Deep View — The go-to daily newsletter for 760k+ founders, knowledge workers, and professionals who want to stay up to date with AI. SPONSORED
localspace — A library that unifies the APIs of IndexedDB, localStorage and other storage into a consistent API.
JSON Alexander — A browser extension that lets you view JSON, with syntax highlighting for keys, strings, numbers, Booleans, and null, collapsible/expandable tree view, hover to view path, and lots more features.
openhare — An AI-powered, cross-platform desktop SQL client with multi-database support, built for everyday development, data analysis, and DBA management workflows.
Stoolap — A feature-rich embedded SQL database built in pure Rust that targets low-latency transactional workloads and real-time analytical queries, with modern SQL features and no external server process.
Jedison — A JavaScript Library that generates forms from JSON schemas, to editing and validate JSON.
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A Modern E-Book to Learn VS Code
Earlier this year I put together a collection of 150+ up-to-date tips, suggestions, and customizations on using the native features of Visual Studio Code, the world's most popular code editor. You can buy the e-book today via Gumroad. 100% written by a human, no AI writing.
The book includes:
- 150+ VS Code Tips
- 450+ high resolution screenshots and GIFs
- EPUB and PDF formats
- 346 pages (PDF version)
Learn VS Code 🡺
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Git, GitHub, and CLI Tools
Sheets — A spreadsheet viewer, built in Go, that offers commands for reading data, modifying a cell, navigating, editing, selecting, and more.
wf — A command-line tool for looking up web platform features, allowing you to search by keyword, check Baseline status, find MDN docs, specs, browser bugs, survey results, and more.
ota — An open infrastructure for repo readiness that gives each repo one explicit contract for readiness, diagnosis, setup, and execution, so humans, CI, and AI agents know the next safe action instead of guessing.
GitAgent — A Git-native agent harness that enables identity, memory, rules, and skills to live as plain files in a repo.
The Deep View — The go-to daily newsletter for 760k+ founders, knowledge workers, and professionals who want to stay up to date with AI. SPONSORED
Clide — A lightweight, fast, and modern macOS terminal with file explorer, multi-pane grids, drag-and-drop, and native voice input.
Git City — A tool that transforms every GitHub profile into a unique pixel art building, which you can explore in an interactive 3D city, and the more you contribute, the taller your building grows.
quien — An interactive TUI with tabbed views that offers a better whois and domain intelligence toolkit for WHOIS, DNS, mail, SSL/TLS, HTTP headers, SEO analysis, and tech stack detection.
UNF* — A filesystem flight recorder that captures every text-based file change in real-time so you can recover from any mistake in seconds.
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Commercial Apps & Classifieds
Acopio – A tool that uses an MCP server to index your entire toolbelt, making it searchable from your IDE.
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VSCode.Email – The only newsletter focused on Visual Studio Code, the web's most popular code editor. AD
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Ardent – Create copies of any Postgres DB in seconds so coding agents can verify code works in prod.
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DB Pro – Query, explore, & manage databases with a beautiful native desktop app with collab & built-in AI.
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The Deep View – Join 760k+ founders and knowledge workers to stay up to date with AI. AD
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LILA – Natural language SQL for your databases and ERP systems, in any language, without code.
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ReleasePad – AI-powered changelog software that drafts your release notes from GitHub.
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A Social Post for Thought
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Louis
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