Tips, tutorials, and insights on privacy-first development and digital workflows.
Most popular online PDF tools quietly store your files on their servers. Here's how to spot them and what a real client-side tool looks like in your browser's network tab.
5 min readA 90% smaller PDF is great until someone tries to print page 14 and the photo turns into mush. A short guide to picking the right compression level.
4 min readBrowser support has finally stopped being the deciding factor. Here's a short, opinionated guide to picking the right image format for the right job.
4 min readPage order is the most common reason a merged PDF needs to be redone. Three small habits that fix it in advance.
3 min readMost password generators show an entropy number nobody reads. Here's what 60 vs 80 vs 128 bits actually means in practice.
5 min readMost people use a JSON formatter to add line breaks. There are a half-dozen things a good one should also do that save real debugging time.
4 min readPasting a JWT into the wrong online decoder hands its payload to whoever runs that site. A primer on what JWTs leak and how to inspect them safely.
5 min readThe list of recommended favicon sizes has been growing for ten years. Here's the short, current list — three files cover almost everything.
3 min readRemove image backgrounds instantly with AI-powered detection — all processing happens in your browser.
7 min readWrite documentation in Markdown and export beautifully formatted PDFs — ideal for README files, reports, and technical docs.
7 min readVisually compare PDF versions side-by-side to catch edits, additions, and deletions in contracts, reports, and documents.
6 min readWhy client-side processing is safer for sensitive files — and how to tell if an online tool actually protects your data.
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