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Encoding
16 toolsThe most-searched category on DevTools Hub — URL encoding, decoding, and Base64 conversions.
Password Security
6 toolsGenerate a strong password, check how one holds up, and set or validate the policy your team follows.
Docker
7 toolsValidate, lint, and visualize Docker Compose files — and make sense of container networking.
Regex
6 toolsBuild, test, visualize, and debug regular expressions — with a cheat sheet when you need a quick reference.
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Generators Toolkit
3 toolsIndependent tools for the test data every project eventually needs — unique IDs and placeholder text. All run entirely in your browser.
JSON Toolkit
10 toolsFormat, validate, diff, minify, convert, query, and schema-generate/validate JSON — ten tools for the format everything speaks. All run entirely in your browser.
Encoding Toolkit
16 toolsBase64, URL, HTML, hex, and ASCII encoding and decoding, plus query string and full URL parsing, building, inspection, Unicode analysis, and string-literal escaping — sixteen tools for the encodings that show up constantly in web development. All run entirely in your browser.
Date & Time Toolkit
5 toolsTimestamps, timezones, and cron schedules — five tools for the two date-and-time problems every backend eventually runs into. All run entirely in your browser.
JWT Toolkit
8 toolsEverything for working with JSON Web Tokens, in one place — decode, understand, verify, build, and secure them. All eight tools run entirely in your browser; nothing you paste is ever sent anywhere.
Hashing Toolkit
10 toolsMD5, SHA, checksums, HMAC, and password hashing — ten tools for hashing text, verifying files, and signing messages. All run entirely in your browser.
Regex Toolkit
6 toolsBuild, test, visualize, debug, and escape for JavaScript regular expressions — six tools covering the whole regex workflow. All run entirely in your browser.
SQL Toolkit
6 toolsFormat, validate, minify, diff, index-advise, and explain SQL — six tools covering readability, correctness, schema changes, and performance. All run entirely in your browser.
OpenAPI Toolkit
5 toolsView, validate, diff, and put an OpenAPI/Swagger document to work — five tools covering the full spec lifecycle. All run entirely in your browser.
Docker Toolkit
7 toolsValidate, lint, format, visualize, merge, and resolve Docker Compose files, and lint Dockerfiles — seven tools covering the whole Docker workflow. All run entirely in your browser.
GitHub Actions Toolkit
4 toolsValidate, visualize, lint, and audit secrets in GitHub Actions workflows — four tools covering correctness and security. All run entirely in your browser.
Environment Toolkit
5 toolsValidate, diff, resolve, and convert .env files — five tools for the dotenv format's real parsing rules and the gotchas that fail silently. All run entirely in your browser.
Kubernetes Toolkit
7 toolsValidate, format, calculate resources, diff, explore relationships, and merge or compare Helm values for Kubernetes manifests — seven tools covering correctness, readability, and resource planning. All run entirely in your browser.
YAML Toolkit
2 toolsValidate and format YAML — syntax errors, duplicate keys, parser-version gotchas, and consistent indentation — schema-agnostic, for any YAML file. All run entirely in your browser.
AWS Toolkit
10 toolsParse and build ARNs, generate, review, simulate, and minify IAM policies, validate tag policies, look up Regions, and validate CloudFormation templates — nine tools for everyday AWS work. All run entirely in your browser.
GraphQL Toolkit
2 toolsFormat and validate GraphQL queries, mutations, and SDL schemas with the real reference parser. All run entirely in your browser.
Algorithms Toolkit
8 toolsComputer science fundamentals for practicing engineers — algorithm complexity, performance analysis, and scalability, with interactive tools and practical examples. All run entirely in your browser.
Data Structures Toolkit
4 toolsHow the structures underneath every algorithm actually work — arrays, hash tables, trees, and more, visualized step by step. All run entirely in your browser.
Scalability Toolkit
3 toolsThe numbers behind systems that hold up under load — caching, capacity, and the metrics worth actually tracking. All run entirely in your browser.
Distributed Systems Toolkit
2 toolsTools for the problems that show up once a system spans more than one machine — unique IDs, coordination, and consistency. All run entirely in your browser.
Password Security Toolkit
6 toolsGenerate a strong password, check the strength of one you already have or estimate one hypothetically, define or validate the policy an organization follows, and grade its storage practices. All run entirely in your browser.
Encryption Toolkit
7 toolsEncrypt and decrypt text with AES, generate or inspect RSA and SSH keys, build SSH config blocks, and build or decode certificate signing requests — entirely in your browser using the native Web Crypto API.
Linux Security Toolkit
2 toolsWork out Linux file permissions and build chmod commands in whichever notation you're thinking in. Runs entirely in your browser.
Latest tools
SSH Config Generator
Build a complete ~/.ssh/config Host block — User, Port, IdentityFile, ProxyJump, ForwardAgent.
SSH Key Inspector
Inspect an SSH public key (RSA, Ed25519, ECDSA) — key type, fingerprint, bit length, and algorithm details.
chmod Command Generator
Build a real chmod command from symbolic clauses (u+rwx, g-w, o=r) and flags like -R and -v.
SSH Key Generator
Generate a real Ed25519 or RSA SSH key pair, formatted exactly as OpenSSH expects.
Linux Permissions Calculator
Convert between chmod octal, symbolic (rwxr-xr-x), and checkboxes — with setuid/setgid/sticky.
CSR Decoder
Decode a PKCS#10 Certificate Signing Request and verify its signature.
Latest articles
View all postschmod vs chown
Both show up in the same troubleshooting session, which is why they get blurred together — but chmod controls what each scope (owner, group, others) can do to a file, while chown controls who the owner and group actually are. Why chmod 777 is often the wrong fix for what's really an ownership problem, why an ordinary user can never give a file away to someone else without root, and the capital-X trick that keeps a recursive chmod from breaking every directory in a tree.
SSH Keys Explained
How SSH key authentication actually works (a challenge-response signature, not a key transmission), how RSA, Ed25519, and ECDSA really differ, what a fingerprint is checking, and the difference between a host key and a user key.
SSH Config File Guide
How ~/.ssh/config is actually structured — Host patterns, the first-match-wins precedence rule (and IdentityFile's exception to it), Match, connection multiplexing, and how to debug a config that isn't doing what you expect with ssh -G.