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Web Tools Weekly is a curated newsletter that provides a weekly roundup of web development tools, libraries, and utilities. It helps developers stay updated with the latest advancements in programming, testing, AI integration, and front-end technologies.

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WTW #674
June 18, 2026
Web Tools #674 - AI Tools, JSON, Databases, Git/CLI
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Issue #674 • June 18, 2026

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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.

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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.

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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.

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.

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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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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.

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Clide — A lightweight, fast, and modern macOS terminal with file explorer, multi-pane grids, drag-and-drop, and native voice input.

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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.

Commercial Apps & Classifieds

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