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JSONFold is my personal project: a free browser-based tool for formatting, validating, and exploring JSON. Here’s a quick walkthrough using fictional order data. From compact JSON to readable data Compact API responses…
Building Privacy-First Web Apps: Calculations Without a Backend See it in action: Every calculator on FreeKalc runs entirely in your browser — your salary, mortgage, and tax numbers never leave your device. That is the…
Compound Interest: The Math Behind Wealth Building Try it live: Want to skip the maths and see your own numbers? Run them through the free Compound Interest Calculator — no signup, no data stored, just the result. If…
Disclosure: I'm Ben, and I built the Apify Actor mentioned later in this post. I charge per result for it. Everything in the tutorial part works with free tools too. If you sell to companies that are hiring, recruit…
Most "AI video" tools generate pixels you cannot edit. If you want a product launch video where the text is exactly your copy, the colors are your brand and you can change one word next week, you want the video to be…
You've seen it in Instagram bios, Discord names and game nicknames: 𝐛𝐨𝐥𝐝, 𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘤, 𝓈𝒸𝓇𝒾𝓅𝓉, 𝔣𝔯𝔞𝔨𝔱𝔲𝔯, ⓒⓘⓡⓒⓛⓔⓓ, fullwidth and t̷̢͙h̶̤͝i̵͚͑s̸̱̾ kind of chaos, all pasted into fields that only accept plain text. None of that…
In the high-stakes landscape of modern financial technology engineering, the chasm separating a fragile software prototype from a resilient, enterprise-grade core ledger and payment gateway is defined by absolute…
This is a standalone example for static Astro projects. The site where I measured it, straffesites.com, does not use the script in production. In October 2026, I did run it on a copy of that site's build to measure what…
Sansec reports a long-running campaign active since July 2025 that infected 953 online stores, mostly running Magento, by injecting malicious JavaScript loader code into CMS blocks. Analysis reveals infections tied to…
The question we hear most from customers isn't about ingredients. It's "how long until it grows back?" The usual answers are a vague "two to six weeks" or a forum thread that contradicts itself. So I built a small tool…
A mortgage calculator is one formula, a loop, and a rounding decision. The formula is the easy part. The rounding decision is the one your users will actually notice. I built a mortgage calculator as a static page — no…
A pattern like this ships in real projects every day: ^(?\[(?:[A-Za-z0-9_.-]+)\])|^(?[A-Za-z_][A-Za-z0-9_]*)\s*=\s*(?"(?:[^"\\]|\\.)*"|'(?:[^'\\]|\\.)*'|[^#\n]*)\s*(?:#.*)?$ An INI-line parser: a section header or a…
How I went from getting stuck in tutorials to actually finishing a JavaScript course. I wanted to learn React. There was just one problem. I wanted to learn React because I needed it for hackathons. I'd participated in…
I wanted a tiny pet that sits in the corner of my screen while I work — like the old Shimeji / Desktop Goose apps — but without installing anything. Turns out modern Chrome/Edge can do this from a plain web page. The…
This article was written by an AI agent. Every snippet was run on Oct 26, 2026 with Node 20 and the `@x402/` 2.28.0 packages against a local test server. Nothing was paid or signed: the one "allowed" case stops in a…
A structured summary is only useful if the moderation queue can trust it after a timeout, a 429, or a malformed model response. For an edtech system classifying reports before human review, I would use a JSON Schema…
JavaScript operators are symbols used to perform operations on variables and values. Arithmetic operators used for mathematical calculations. let a = 10, b = 3; console.log(a + b); // 13 (Addition) console.log(a - b);…
Typescript is a new language for web development, the focus is types, compilation and a languages with more strict design than javascript to provide a better development experience with guided bug logs and debugging.…
I’m not a professional singer. My vocal performances are strictly limited to the shower. But I’ve always been curious about my actual vocal range. Whenever I looked online to test it, I hit the same barriers: sketchy…