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16 Free Developer Tools Worth Bookmarking for Quick Web Tasks

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13 May
10 Free Browser-Based Text Tools Every Developer Should Bookmark

<p>As developers, we constantly deal with text transformation tasks — <br /> encoding a string, cleaning up CSV data, converting between formats. <br /> Most of us either Google a

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9 Jul
The 2-in-1 Dev Toolkit I Use Every Day (That Nobody Talks About)

<blockquote> <p>Disclosure: I contribute to OpenNomos, the ecosystem behind this project.</p> </blockquote> <p>There are hundreds of online dev tools out there. JSON formatters.

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13 Jul
DevDash: 17 dev tools, one URL, all client-side

<p>I put together a set of browser-based developer tools at <a href="https://usedevdash.dev" rel="noopener noreferrer">usedevdash.dev</a>. Here's the full list:</p> <ul> <li>JSON

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15 Apr
I was tired of sketchy online JSON formatters, so I built a suite of 100+ client-side developer utilities

<p>As developers, we all have that exact same workflow. You get a massive blob of JSON from an API, or a JWT token from a staging environment, and you instinctively Google "JSON

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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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11 Apr
I got tired of using 10 different dev tools, so I built my own

<p>Stop for a second. How many tabs do you have open right now?</p> <p>Go ahead. Count them.</p> <p>If you're a developer mid-debugging session, I'm willing to bet at least three

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7 Jul
Why Online DevTools Are the Next Big Thing for Developer Productivity

<p>Every developer has been there: you need to format a JSON blob, decode some Base64, or convert a timestamp. You open your terminal, look for the right npm package, or — worse —

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6 Jul
Why I Stopped Pasting JWTs and JSON into Random Online Tools

<p>A few weeks ago, a junior developer on my team pasted a massive JSON payload containing production customer data into a random "Free JSON Formatter" they found on Google. </p>

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