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Long-form posts on offline-first developer tools, browser APIs, JSON and JWT internals, and the small everyday tradeoffs of building privacy-first software.

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  • Privacy
    8 min read·

    Why offline-first developer tools matter in 2026

    Paste-and-upload developer tools have a long history of accidental leaks. Browser-only utilities sidestep the entire category of risk by computing locally — here's the case for offline-first, the actual incidents that motivate it, and how to verify a tool is what it claims to be.

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  • How-to
    6 min read·

    JSON formatter vs jq vs your editor: when to reach for which

    Three tools cover almost every JSON task developers face — a browser-tab formatter, jq in the terminal, and the editor's built-in formatter. They overlap, but each one is meaningfully better for a specific kind of job. Here's how to pick.

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