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13 Sept
canvas.toBlob('image/avif') silently returns a PNG. Here's how I shipped AVIF export anyway

<p>If you have ever written <code>canvas.toBlob(callback, 'image/avif')</code>, there is a good chance your users have been downloading PNG files with an <code>.avif</code>

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15 May
Why I built browser-based tools instead of server uploads

<div class="highlight js-code-highlight"> <pre class="highlight markdown"><code>privacy webdevEvery time I uploaded a file to an online PDF tool, I wondered: what happens to it

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25 May
How to Build a High-Performance Image Optimization Pipeline in 5 Minutes

<p>Images make up over 60% of average web page weight. If you're serving unoptimized, raw JPEGs or PNGs to mobile clients, your site's Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) score is

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19 May
I replaced a $200/month audio processing server with 40 lines of browser JavaScript

<p>Last year I was paying $200/month for an EC2 instance that did one thing: accept audio file uploads, run FFmpeg, and return the converted file. FLAC to MP3. WAV to OGG. Bitrate

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21 Mar
BiRefNet vs rembg vs U2Net: Which Background Removal Model Actually Works in Production?

<h1> BiRefNet vs rembg vs U2Net: Which Background Removal Model Actually Works in Production? </h1> <p>I've spent the last few months running background removal at scale — tens of

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11 May
How I Built a 25-Tool Next.js Micro-SaaS in 24 Hours (and let an Hermes AI Agent handle my SEO)

<p>Hey DEV community! 👋</p> <p>As a developer and digital marketer, I got sick of using random, ad-stuffed websites every time I needed to quickly format JSON, calculate a margin,

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28 Mar
How I Built a Client-Side Video to GIF Converter with Zero Dependencies

<p>I spent a weekend building a video-to-GIF converter that runs entirely in the browser. No server, no uploads, no ffmpeg binary — just raw JavaScript turning video frames into

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11 Jun
33+ Free Developer Tools That Never Send Your Data

<h2> The Problem with Most Online Formatters </h2> <p>You know the drill. You paste some JSON into a random online formatter, or convert a CSV to Markdown, or format a WeChat

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