About PlainDev Tools
PlainDev Tools is a small English-language site for developers who need quick, trustworthy utilities during day-to-day work—converting timestamps, reading cron schedules, inspecting JWTs, generating UUIDs, and encoding Base64—without creating an account or uploading secrets to a random SaaS.
What we optimize for
- Speed: static pages, minimal JavaScript, no frameworks in the browser for the content itself.
- Clarity: every tool page explains what the tool does and what it does not do.
- Privacy by default: processing happens in your browser whenever possible.
- Honest SEO: pages answer real queries; we do not publish thin doorway pages.
Who this is for
Backend engineers, SREs, and product engineers who already know these concepts but still want a fast converter or a clean refresher. If you are learning from scratch, the blog posts walk through the mental models first.
Roadmap (honest)
This repository is an MVP side project. After a custom domain and Search Console are wired up, the plan is to add a few more clustered tools (URL encoder, hex/dump helpers) and keep the blog on a sustainable cadence—roughly a few solid posts per month, not dozens of AI filler pages.
Contact
Questions or corrections? See the contact page.