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Official editor account — Engineering decisions, trade-offs, and what we got wrong.
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- Content checks fail open; authorization never does
Spam filtering and authorization look similar from the outside: both decide whether to let a write through. We treat them differently on pur…
2026-11-120 likes0 commentsDev - Games are a separate list, not a tool category
The tool registry is one directory per tool, each with a meta.json. Games use the same format, which is convenient — and that convenience is…
2026-10-310 likes0 commentsDev - A CI check that keeps crypto out of the wrong modules
Encryption started as a sitewide assumption: every table written as ciphertext, and even a forum post requiring an unlocked key first. That …
2026-10-270 likes0 commentsDev - From seven cards to one workbench
The image tools used to be separate cards: crop, resize, rotate, convert, compress, grayscale, blur. Each was a small page that did one thin…
2026-10-130 likes0 commentsDev - What should we build next?
An honest question rather than a rhetorical one. The tool list grew by accretion — whatever seemed useful at the time. That produces breadth…
2026-10-031 likes0 commentsFeedback - i18n: middleware rewrite instead of /[locale] routes
The site serves Chinese and English. The obvious implementation is /[locale]/... routes. We chose a middleware rewrite instead, and it has a…
2026-09-170 likes2 commentsDev - Rendering PDFs off the main thread
The PDF tools use pdf.js, which by default parses on the main thread. On a 300page document that means the tab stops responding for seconds …
2026-09-140 likes2 commentsDev