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How I Added Browser-Based HEIC to JPG Conversion (No Server, No Upload)
2+ hour, 5+ min ago (254+ words) I just added a HEIC to JPG converter to File Forge Tools, my privacy-first file conversion site. Here's what building it actually involved. That's what heic2any provides. Under the hood it's a WASM build of libheif that decodes the HEIC bitstream…...
Anomalix - Funding, Investors, Team & Alternatives
5+ hour, 43+ min ago (41+ words) Anomalix Startup Hub. ai Anomalix is a company that operates as a sketchbook for systems, patterns, and problems worth solving. They focus on developing solutions through experimentation and coding, as evidenced by their extensive track record of battles conquered and…...
I built Omni Hub. tools: A zero-tracking, 100% client-side suite of 30 developer utilities
5+ hour, 10+ min ago (93+ words) Hi dev community! " As backend engineers and sysadmins, we constantly need to format text, inspect tokens, or run quick cryptographic calculations. However, most online tools send your sensitive payloads directly to their servers, creating massive compliance and security data risks....
Building a Private AI Diary with On-Device Speech Transcription
7+ hour, 12+ min ago (723+ words) Writing a diary sounds simple until the blank page appears at the end of a long day. The friction is usually not a lack of things to say. It is the work of opening a keyboard, choosing a structure, and…...
# I built 62 free browser tools in one website " no uploads, no sign-ups, works offline
7+ hour, 42+ min ago (273+ words) For a 10-second task. And now your file lives on someone else's computer. So I built the site I wished existed: Tools Guru " 62 free tools in one place, where everything runs locally in your browser. Nothing is ever uploaded. No…...
I counted every step it takes to convert an image on Windows. Then I built something better.
10+ hour, 40+ min ago (166+ words) I needed to convert a PNG to ICO. Option 1: Online converter 7 steps. Your file left your machine. 7 steps. 200 MB installed. Learning curve included. Option 4: Paint Doesn't support half the formats I need. I needed to convert 50 images. Multiply any of…...
Convert a whole folder of images to Web P " locally, no upload, one command
13+ hour, 24+ min ago (371+ words) It doesn't scale, and honestly I'm never thrilled about uploading a client's assets to a random Saa S just to save a few kilobytes. So the workflow below does the whole folder in one command, locally " nothing leaves your machine,…...
Notary API quickstart, a signed, RFC 3161 timestamped proof of existence in one call
22+ hour, 5+ min ago (332+ words) Send us a SHA-256, never your data. We sign it and time-stamp it with an accredited RFC 3161 authority, and hand back a timestamp proof that the record existed, unchanged, at time'T, independently verifiable by anyone, even against us. Keyless. Copy-paste....
Bypassing Shadow DOMs & Same-Origin Iframes: How I Solved Linked In's Massive SDUI Update
22+ hour, 19+ min ago (799+ words) Imagine waking up to see the browser extension you spent months building, refining, and scaling completely break overnight. That is exactly what happened to my extension, Job Easy Apply. For months, job seekers used it to autofill job applications on…...
I Caught a Dev Tool Stealing My Data " So I Built 7 Alternatives That Make Zero Network Calls
1+ day, 1+ hour ago (286+ words) Dev Tool Box " 7 developer utilities, zero network requests Last month I was debugging an API integration and pasted a response containing auth tokens into a popular online JSON formatter. Out of habit, I had Dev Tools open. I watched it…...