Guides

Explanatory guides that go deeper on the concepts behind our tools. Each guide explains what something is, how it works, and where the common pitfalls hide, with links to the free browser-based tools that let you try each one out.

Data

• CSV and JSON, explained
• SQL formatting, explained
• Working with JSON, explained
• Working with XML, explained

Development

• Cron expressions, explained
• GZIP compression in the browser, explained
• Markdown and HTML, explained
• Minifying and beautifying code, explained
• Regular expressions, explained
• Unix timestamps, explained
• UUIDs, explained

Encoding & Web

• Base64 encoding, explained
• Favicons, explained
• HTML entities, explained
• Number bases, explained
• URL encoding and parsing, explained

Images & Design

• Editing images in the browser, explained
• CSS color formats, explained
• QR codes, explained
• Working with PDFs in the browser, explained

Security

• EXIF metadata and photo privacy, explained
• Hashing and password storage, explained
• JWTs, explained

Text

• Naming cases, explained
• Text utilities, explained

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