Fresh Resources for Web Designers and Developers (September 2025)
We’re back with another round of fresh tools and resources for developers and designers.
This month’s collection features a handy mix of AI-powered tools, UI kits, some cool WordPress projects, and more. Whether you’re looking to boost productivity, streamline your workflow, or just try something new, there’s plenty here worth checking out.
Without further ado, let’s dive in!
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BaseCoatUI
BaseCoatUI is a Tailwind CSS UI library that brings shadcn/ui design to plain HTML, without React.js. It works with any stack, needs little JavaScript, supports dark mode, and offers simple, accessible, theme-compatible components.
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Motia
Motia.dev is a backend framework that unifies APIs, jobs, workflows, events, and AI agents. It supports multiple languages including JavaScript, TypeScript, and Python, requires no setup, and comes with built-in tools for debugging and monitoring.
Ghunt
GHunt is an Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) tool that collects publicly available data from Google accounts using a Gmail address, revealing linked services like YouTube, Maps, Drive, and more. It runs locally, exports results to JSON, and is widely used by investigators and security researchers.
Omarchy
Omarchy from DHH is an Arch-based Linux distro with the Hyprland window manager. It provides a preconfigured, polished system for developers with popular apps like Neovim, Spotify, and Chromium, full-disk encryption, and a productivity-focused UI.
Hypr.land
Hyprland is a lightweight, independent Wayland compositor and dynamic tiling window manager written in C++. It offers advanced customization, plugins, and visual effects like animations, blur, and gradient borders, while supporting features such as dynamic workspaces, instant config reloads, and global keybinds.
LlamaFS
LlamaFS is an open-source AI file manager that uses Llama 3 to automatically analyze, rename, and organize files by content. It’s a very helpful tool for managing your messy folders.
Micro
Micro is a lightweight, user-friendly terminal text editor designed as a modern successor to nano. It’s a single binary with no dependencies, offering syntax highlighting for 130+ languages, multiple cursors, mouse support, splits, tabs, clipboard integration, and Lua plugins. A great choice for devs looking for a simple yet powerful terminal editor.
OpenGist
Opengist is a self-hosted, Git-powered pastebin that works like GitHub Gist. It supports versioned code snippets, public or private sharing, syntax highlighting, markdown, search, and OAuth2 login. A great application if you’re looking for collaborative snippet management that you can host yourself.
Obs.js
Obs.js is a JavaScript library that improves web performance by detecting a user’s device, network, and battery status through browser APIs, then adapting the site or app to optimize speed and resource usage. If you’re building a web app that needs to run well on a variety of devices and conditions, Obs.js can help you deliver a better user experience.
Alpine Registry
The Alpine Registry is an MCP-compatible example registry for distributing code with the shadcn/ui components. It works with the shadcn CLI to help automate setting up and managing React component libraries or design systems. A great tool if you’re using shadcn/ui and want to streamline your component workflow.
PortKill
Port Kill is a lightweight macOS status bar app that helps developers monitor and manage processes running on specific ports. It scans ports every 5 seconds, shows active processes, and allows you to kill them individually or all at once with a click. A very handy tool for freeing up ports quickly during development.
EmailEngine
EmailEngine is a headless email client with a unified REST API for IMAP, SMTP, Gmail, and Microsoft Graph. It allows you to sync, send, and monitor emails, integrate accounts, and get real-time notifications via webhooks, without dealing with IMAP or MIME details.
Dockur Windows
Dockur Windows allows you to spin up full Windows desktops and servers, from XP all the way to 11, with Docker containers. Instead of messing with heavy VM software, it leans on Docker with KVM acceleration. This provides a simpler and lighter way to test or play with Windows environments.
Motion Primitives
Motion Primitives is an open-source UI kit packed with ready-to-use motion components for React, Next.js, and Tailwind CSS. It makes adding smooth, polished animations to your app a breeze. A great resource if you want to enhance your UI with motion without building everything from scratch.
Cohere Toolkit
Cohere Toolkit is an open-source kit of pre-built components that makes spinning up RAG apps significantly faster. With this toolkit, you can reduce development time from months to weeks, or even minutes, getting from idea to deployment quickly.
WP Docs MD
WP Docs MD, built by Kaspars Dambis, turns WordPress docs into Markdown, pulled straight from the REST API with custom PHP scripts. Handy for offline use, AI prompting, or if you just prefer working in plain text.
Telex
Telex is a new experimental AI tool from Automattic that allows you to “vibe code” Gutenberg blocks for WordPress. Just type what you want – like a block with text, images, or columns – and Telex will generate a ready-to-install zip file that you can drop into your site or test in WordPress Playground. First demoed at WordCamp US 2025 by Matt Mullenweg, it’s still early days, but it could make block development way more accessible.
WordPress RSL
Really Simple Licensing (RSL) is a WordPress plugin that makes your site’s licensing terms machine-readable. It adds clear signals so AI tools, crawlers, and other automated systems actually know how your content can be used. A handy way to keep licensing of your content simple.
VHS
VHS is a CLI tool for turning your terminal sessions into slick GIFs or videos. You write a “tape†file that describes your commands and keystrokes, and VHS renders it into shareable demos (GIF, MP4, etc.). Perfect for showing off your CLI tools without messy screen recordings.
Devenv.sh
Devenv.sh makes spinning up dev environments painless. You define configurations with Nix in simple config files. Just run devenv shell and you’ll get packages, services, git hooks, tests, scripts, and containers – all wired up automatically. It’s a great way to standardize and automate your development setups.
