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Practical guides for Forge Notes: developer tools, Google SEO, and frontend performance. Sections and post lists are generated from the docs/posts directory (data loader posts.data.js) — a new post lands in its section automatically via its frontmatter category.

🛠️ Developer Tool Guides

How the DigDevBox online tools work: timestamps, encodings, JWT, regex, and the formats behind them.

• HMAC Guide: Message Authentication vs Hashing vs Signatures2026-10-23
• YAML Formatter Guide: Fix Indentation and Read Parse Errors Honestly2026-10-23
• Base64 Encoding Guide: Padding, URLs and Binary-Safe Data2026-10-08
• HTTP Status Codes Guide: 2xx, 3xx, 4xx, 5xx and How to Respond2026-10-08
• Unix Timestamp Guide: UTC, Milliseconds and the 2038 Problem2026-10-08
• URL Encoding Guide: Percent-Encoding, encodeURIComponent and Form Traps2026-10-08
• YAML vs JSON: Syntax Differences, Trade-offs and Parser Traps2026-10-08
• JSON Formatter Guide: Format, Validate and Compare JSON Online2026-10-07
• JWT Decoder Explained: How to Inspect and Debug JSON Web Tokens2026-10-07
• Regex Testing Guide: How Developers Debug Regular Expressions2026-10-07
• UUID vs ULID: Choosing the Right Identifier for Modern Applications2026-10-07

🔧 Engineering Practice

DevOps and day-to-day engineering — tooling, automation, and lessons from shipping.

• DevOps Tools for Everyday Work: Cron, Permissions and Docker Compose2026-10-07

📚 More Posts

Everything that does not fit the sections above.

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