Our tools
What we are building and why. Each post explains the problem a tool solves and how it fits with the others.
4 articles, newest first
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One Site, All the Small Tools: How mybittools.com Is Built Like a Toolbox
The idea behind mybittools.com: single purpose developer tools that load instantly, run in your browser, need no account and explain the concept they deal with. What is in the box today, how the tools connect, and what is coming.
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Inside Our JSON Formatter: Format, Validate, Minify, Sort Keys, and Why Nothing Leaves Your Browser
What the mybittools JSON formatter does and why: pretty printing with your indent, error messages with the exact line and column, minify, sort keys for diffing, and a privacy model where your data never leaves the page.
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Inside Our UUID Generator: Every Version, Bulk Batches, Formats and Why We Built It
A tour of the mybittools UUID generator: why it exists, what it can do that most generators cannot, how it stays private by running only in your browser, and the workflows it was built for.
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Our JSON Visualizer: See the Shape of Your Data Instead of Reading It
What our JSON visualizer is for, the problems with reading large JSON as text that it solves, how it turns a document into a diagram you can pan and zoom, and how the Mermaid export fits into docs and pull requests.