Web Tools Weekly
Tools for Web Developers

Issue #610  (CSS/HTML, Git/CLI, AI Tools)03/27/25


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CSS & HTML Tools

CASCII — An online multi-featured drawing tool for text-based art in ASCII or Unicode formats, with options to export to clipboard or Base64.

Scales — A Figma or JSON file that you can use as a clear, structured starting point for your design system's design tokens.

Brands Tail Color — A searchable gallery of brand colors for different organizations, all copyable in Tailwind format for Tailwind's config file.

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Accessible Color Palette Generator — An interactive tool to automate the generation of accessible enterprise UI color palettes, with various options to adjust contrast and view the generated colors in different UI components.

CSS Voxel Editor — An online tool to create 3D 'voxel' drawings, or 3D block pixel art, similar to what you'd see in Minecraft, with the option to edit prebuilt drawings, open in CodePen, or export in .VOX format.

CSS Voxel Editor

Layouts — A notebook-style editor for building interfaces with Tailwind, with no setup or deployment needed, with ability to save unlimited public projects and build with hundreds of pre-loaded components.

Anchoreum — An interactive tool consisting of 40 CSS lessons for learning the new CSS Anchor Positioning specification, which currently has limited browser support.

Super Color Palette — A tool to generate and experiment with color palettes, with ability to save and share unlimited palettes, export to various formats, and generate palettes by shifting hue, saturation, lightness, and more.

ITOA — An online tool that lets you upload an image to convert it to ASCII format, with options to choose monochrome vs. color and size.

Git, GitHub & CLI Tools

Lefthook — A fast, powerful, configurable Git hooks manager, written in Go, and useful for any type of project (Node.js, Ruby, Python, etc).

RelaGit — A native app for Windows, Mac, and Linux that provides an elegant solution to graphical version control, with integrations for GitHub, GitLab, and Codeberg.

presenterm — A terminal app built in Rust that allows you to create slideshow presentations in markdown format and run them from your terminal, with support for images, animated gifs, among numerous other features.

presenterm

GGH — A Go-based tool that provides a lightweight, fast wrapper around your SSH commands allowing you to recall your SSH sessions and search your SSH config file.

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GitZip — A browser extension that lets you easily download specified subfolders or files of any GitHub repository.

Forgejo — A self-hosted lightweight software collaboration platform that offers project management tools and a self-hosted GitHub alternative.

BackHub — A simple GitHub repository backup tool that creates complete local mirrors of your repositories, with support for concurrent backup operations, automated scheduling, and a standalone binary.

meet-the-fans — An npm package that allows you to query and visualize the network graph of your GitHub repositories, followers, stargazers, and forks (powered by GraphQL and D3.js).

w2vgrep — A CLI tool that performs semantic searches on text input using word embeddings, designed to find semantically similar matches to a query, going beyond simple string matching.
 
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AI Tools, ChatGPT, etc.

GPT Crawler — A tool that enables you to crawl a site to generate knowledge files to create your own custom GPT from a URL.

Tabby — A self-hosted, self-contained AI coding assistant, offering an open-source and on-premises alternative to GitHub Copilot, featuring an OpenAPI interface.

Easy DataSet — A specialized application designed to streamline the creation of fine-tuning datasets for Large Language Models.

Agent Recipes — A resource to explore common agent recipes with ready-to-copy code to improve your LLM applications.

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codename goose — An open source, extensible AI agent that goes beyond code suggestions, enabling you to install, execute, edit, and test with any LLM.

Oh One Pro — A free utility that allows you to analyze documents using ChatGPT o1-pro and o3-mini models.

Oh One Pro

Trae — An adaptive AI-powered IDE that seamlessly balances human and AI capabilities for maximum development productivity.

yek — A fast Rust based tool to serialize text-based files in a repository or directory for LLM consumption.

Steel — A batteries-included browser instance, that uses an open source browser API for AI agents and apps that lets you automate the web without worrying about infrastructure.

Commercial Apps & Classifieds

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MindStudio – A platform and Chrome extension to build and access AI agents on any website.
Questgen – An AI-powered quiz generator that allows you to create various assessments including multiple-choice, true/false, etc.   AD 
Creatr – An AI platform for building production-ready web applications, with support for Supabase, OpenAI, Resend for email, and more.
PrettyInsights – A simple Google Analytics alternative that gives you live data and doesn't use cookies.
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GitSeek – An AI-powered tool to quickly extract the complete code you need from any repository.
WindyBase – Explore weekly curated free and premium Tailwind templates, components, and tools.

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Some great career advice from Blake Burge's father, which I'm guessing is a concept inspired by Luke 16:10 in the Bible.
 
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Before I Go...

If you're looking for bizarre inspiration for brand colors and color palettes for an upcoming project, you'll want to check out The Hydrant Directory. Yes, it's a gallery of 150 fire hydrants with their associated color palettes. There are options to search for hydrant palettes by color or sort them using various filters related to the hydrants.

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Keep tooling,
Louis
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@LouisLazaris