Well. That didn’t take nine years this time.
Turns out once you start building devtools it’s weirdly addictive. So much for doing something sensible with my spare time.
Anyway. Since the last post I’ve been quietly adding a bunch more stuff to devtools.atebyteapps.com. We’re at 29 tools now and counting.
A few of the new ones I’m actually pretty happy about:
- DNS Lookup - for when you need to check what a domain resolves to without opening four terminal tabs and misremembering the dig flags
- CIDR Calculator - I still can’t do subnet maths in my head and at this point I’m not going to
- Cron Parser - because someone always writes
1
0 4 * * MON
- CSV to JSON - converting spreadsheet exports so I don’t have to write a script just to look at the data
- chmod Calculator - 755, 644, 777… some of us still need to count on our fingers
- Password Generator - because “Password123!” is apparently still a thing people use
The boring sysadmin end of town is well covered now too. URL parser, ASCII converter, certificate viewer and a bunch of other stuff.
But here’s the bit I’m actually stoked about…
Shareable links.
You can now pass things straight into a tool via the URL. Which sounds small but is genuinely handy.
Like the timestamp converter - just whack an epoch value on the end of the URL and it opens with it already converted. Handy for when some API has sent you a timestamp that could be any of three things.
And the colour picker does the same thing with hex codes. Someone gives you 1
#d2a8ff
Full list is right here and more stuff keeps landing. If there’s a tool you keep wishing existed, yell out.
Anyway. Off to stare at a subnet mask.