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2026-03-19 08:45
I Got Tired of Jumping Between 10 Different Sites Just to Format JSON — So I Built My Own
Every developer knows the drill.
You're deep in a debugging session. You need to quickly decode a Base64 string, or format a minified JSON blob so you can actually read it, or generate a UUID for a test fixture. You open a new tab, search for a tool, land on a site drowning in ads and cookie popups, paste your data in, copy the result, and switch back to your IDE.
Two minutes gone. Flow broken.
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