Dave's Toolbox
A curated roundup of the best tools, deals, and discoveries — delivered free every Tuesday.
23 issues and counting
Dave's Toolbox -- August 4, 2026
Five practical tools: agent video cuts, an AI-writing cleanup skill, a fast PDF parser, YC's QM harness, and Cloudflare wallet handles.
Dave's Toolbox -- July 28, 2026
Five tools for finishing work: desktop deliverables, human+agent rooms, an agent browser, polished demos, and an open coding harness.
Dave's Toolbox -- July 21, 2026
Five open tools: agent video edits, SEO with real numbers, a self-hosted agent front door, an open coding agent, and ship-on-your-own-servers.
Dave's Toolbox -- July 14, 2026
Tools that pull AI out of the chat window: a Hermes browser side panel, an open map of primary school, code-built lessons, paying for machine traffic, and no-code voice agents.
Dave's Toolbox -- July 7, 2026
A road-trip office powered by FSD, Starlink, Vision Pro, and agents — plus Grok 4.5, FluentPlayer, Knockoff, and Unbroker.
Dave's Toolbox -- June 30, 2026
Coding agents leave the desk: mobile reviews, creative pipelines, local privacy, smarter Mac sleep, and on-device voice.
Dave's Toolbox -- June 23, 2026
Tools for agent-readable videos, local Mac dictation, searchable X bookmarks, fast PDF parsing, and learning the code your agent wrote.
Dave's Toolbox -- June 16, 2026
Five practical tools for local agents: OCR on your Mac, synced auth, self-hosted files, durable research, and native Mac containers.
Dave's Toolbox -- June 9, 2026
A time-sensitive sale, a better home for local AI chat, mobile SSH that follows me, clipboard context for agents, and a WordPress escape hatch.
Dave's Toolbox -- June 2, 2026
A hardware subscription challenge, local mouse controls, voice-first Mac agents, safer AI skills, and a website spec agents can read.
Dave's Toolbox -- May 26, 2026
Giving agents better interfaces: a phone number, local camera intelligence, safer commands, shared memory, and living code docs.
Dave's Toolbox -- May 19, 2026
Five self-hosted open-source tools I use for document signing, business chat, DNS filtering, marketing automation, and support.
Dave's Toolbox -- May 12, 2026
Practical tools for legal docs, Mac cleanup, SES monitoring, safer terminal pastes, and background computer use.
Dave's Toolbox -- May 5, 2026
Five design-for-agents picks: open-slide, Lazyweb, the Hermes ComfyUI skill, Open Design, and Refero Styles.
Dave's Toolbox -- April 28, 2026
Five picks: Locally AI, Tolaria, Kumo, Kami, and choclift for Vision Pro.
Dave’s Toolbox -- April 21, 2026
Five picks: Postiz social scheduler, Accept Markdown, React Email Editor, Baoyu-skills infographics, Google AI Studio for subscribers.
Dave’s Toolbox -- April 14, 2026
Five picks: Cloudflare’s Tailscale competitor, the AI agent that runs your life, a multimodal CLI for agents, AI teammates on a project board, and why Mythos means you should audit your passwords.
Dave’s Toolbox -- April 7, 2026
Five picks: OpenScreen for free screen recordings, Milla Jovovich’s MemPalace AI memory system, Google’s on-device dictation app, Gemma 4 under Apache 2.0, and Cloudflare’s EmDash CMS.
Dave's Toolbox -- March 31, 2026
Cross-model code review from OpenAI, YC's CEO open-sources his Claude Code setup, an AI email client worth forking, a terminal that handles Claude Code, and a reminder to back up your data.
Dave’s Toolbox -- March 25, 2026
React motion graphics without After Effects, a self-hosted OSINT terminal, 37signals’ free kanban with AI-native CLI, Ghost’s new terminal tool, and an absurdly cheap social scraping API.
Dave's Toolbox -- March 17, 2026
Five picks this week: self-hosting tools, an AI agent with memory, and why Digg couldn't survive the modern internet.
Dave's Toolbox -- March 10, 2026
Automated ML research, open-source SEO without the subscription, visual UI debugging for AI agents, a CRM you actually own, and AI team orchestration with budget controls.
Dave’s Toolbox -- March 3, 2026
Readout, Voicebox, Obsidian CLI, LM Link, and training on Apple’s Neural Engine.