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2026-04-09 04:06
Building a 100% Client-Side PDF Editor: Why I Chose Astro and WebAssembly
The Privacy Problem with Online PDF Tools
We’ve all been there: you need to merge two PDFs or edit a quick detail, so you Google "PDF editor." You find a dozen sites, upload your sensitive document (maybe an invoice or a contract), and hope for the best.
As a developer, this always felt like a massive privacy hole. Why should my data live on someone else's server just to perform a simple merge o...