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🗜️ Developer
How to Minify CSS for Faster Page Loads
Strip comments and unnecessary whitespace from CSS to shrink file size, with a live byte-savings summary, before you ship a stylesheet to production.
🗂️ Developer
How to Minify JSON for Smaller Payloads
Validate and minify JSON by stripping all whitespace, with a live byte-savings summary, to shrink API payloads or config files before shipping them.
🎨 Developer
How to Preview CSS Filters Before You Ship Them
Drag sliders for blur, brightness, contrast, saturate, grayscale, and hue-rotate on sample images, then copy the resulting CSS filter declaration directly.
⌨️ Developer
How to See Exactly What Keycode a Key Press Sends
Press any key and see its key, code, keyCode, location, and active modifier keys reported live by the browser, for debugging keyboard event handlers.
🔢 Developer
How to Tell if a Version Bump Is Major, Minor, or Patch
Validate two semantic version strings and compare them, seeing exactly whether the difference is a major, minor, or patch bump, before you update a dependency.
🧪 Developer
How to Test a Regular Expression Against Real Text
Test a regular expression against your own text, with matches highlighted live and a list of each match's position and captured groups, before shipping it.
🖼️ Developer
How to Turn a Code Snippet Into a Shareable Image
Paste a code snippet and generate a polished, window-framed PNG screenshot with a gradient background, ready for a tweet, slide, or blog post.
🔐 Developer
How to Verify a File's Checksum Before Trusting It
Compute a file's SHA-256, SHA-1, SHA-384, or SHA-512 checksum and compare it against an expected value to verify integrity before you run or install it.