Evergreen guides for the work that happens around our tools — format decisions, workflow stacking, and the small details that separate a good output from a great one.
The definitive guide to handling Portable Document Format files efficiently, securely, and freely.
Understand formats, compression, and dimensions to make the web faster.
How to shrink files — PDFs, images, and vectors — without degrading what the recipient actually sees. The three levers (structural, downsampling, recompression), the right DPI for every context, and why the fastest tool is almost always the one that runs locally.
Move data between the formats developers and analysts actually work with every day — JSON, CSV, Base64, URL-encoded strings, JWTs, and plain text.
Tighten up the small, daily rituals: optimize SVGs, tidy text, count words, strip metadata, and generate passwords you can actually trust.