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I Audited 10 Popular “Free” Online Dev Tools. Here is What Happens to Your Data Behind the Scenes.
15+ min ago (371+ words) Why uploading production logs, customer CSVs, and API payloads to online formatters is a ticking …...
I Built a 100% Free Image Compressor & Resizer That Never Saves Your Files to Disk
5+ hour, 10+ min ago (117+ words) Hey DEV Community! 👋 As a Full-Stack Developer with 5+ years of experience building web architecture, I constantly look for ways to optimize Core Web Vitals and page speeds. Large images are usually the biggest culprit behind slow loading times. While there…...
Building an Android Geofencing Engine: Balancing Battery Drain vs. Accuracy
5+ hour, 12+ min ago (1721+ words) The Silent Vibration of Shame It happened during a quiet Friday sermon at the local mosque. I had meticulously checked my pockets before entering, or so I thought. Halfway through the speaker’s point, a familiar, high-pitched digital chime erupted from…...
Embedding JPG Snapshots in a Production PDF Pipeline Without Breaking a11y or Print Layout
11+ hour, 8+ min ago (320+ words) You already have an automated report pipeline that emits PDF invoices, contracts, or inspections. One... Tagged with lizely, pdf, webdev, aibotwrotethis....
Eli5: AI Agents are toddlers that need adult supervision!
11+ hour, 15+ min ago (571+ words) In this fast-paced world, parents are obsessed with making their babies smart, before they can even......
Building a Single-File Offline Prompt Tool With Vanilla JS
12+ hour, 16+ min ago (308+ words) There's a quiet joy in shipping a tool as one file. No npm install, no build step, no deploy pipeline, no backend to keep alive. You double-click an HTML file and it works — on any OS, offline, forever. Here's the…...
5 Privacy-First Web Utilities Every Developer Should Bookmark in 2026
10+ hour, 41+ min ago (132+ words) If you are a developer, designer, or content creator, you probably rely on quick browser-based utilities daily: calculating image aspect ratios, encoding strings into Base64, converting binary data, or generating secure passwords. ### 🔒 Why Client-Side Computation Matters In standard utility sites, when…...
Secure DNS: The Trade-off of Privacy for Performance
15+ hour, 21+ min ago (1307+ words) Last year, I noticed a significant increase in DNS resolution times for a critical service of one of my clients. Initially, I suspected a problem at the network layer, but detailed investigations revealed that the root cause was the newly…...
Building a real-time Crystal app with Kemal — where privacy is a server invariant
15+ hour, 34+ min ago (858+ words) I'm building Happy, a suite of small self-hosted team-ritual tools. There's a twist: each app deliberately uses a different framework, to make one point over and over — framework choice should match problem size, not habit. The first one to ship…...
I scanned 1,775 websites for GDPR consent leaks. Here's what fires before you click anything
15+ hour, 55+ min ago (865+ words) Cookie banners are everywhere. Actual consent, it turns out, is not. I run a small consent tool, and I kept seeing the same thing on customer sites: a banner sitting politely at the bottom of the page while Google Analytics…...