Dan's Tools (danstools.com)

Is there a reason this url points exclusively at a second website (cleancss.com) for all the tools?

This made me think of Matt’s script archive for some reason.

Too bad these tools run on the server side, which means you can't study how they are implemented.

Also, the pages are filled with big banner advertisements.

The notion of pasting vast swaths of data into an online format converter gives me the most powerful kind of creeps.

i like cyberchef for this kind of thing better https://gchq.github.io/CyberChef/

SnD Reverser Tool if you're looking for an oldschool, really tiny / lightweight, native (and also cool looking) application. Such tools are meant to be native.

I used this a lot to work with timestamps until I switched to Raycast and made an extension to do the same.

If you like to do most of this directly in vscode check out Voop: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=PhilippT...

I wrote an open source client-side tool that might interest people who need something like this: https://github.com/recurser/string-is

Slightly tangential - does anyone know if there is a running time parser?

Like:

Convert 60mi in 23hr15m23s to:

miles per minute

km per minute

mph

kph

etc., etc.

    $ qalc
    > 60mi / 23h15min23s to mph
      (60 × mile) / ((23 × hour) + (15 × minute) + (23 × second)) ≈ 2.579936218 mph
    > 60mi / 23h15min23s to km/min
      (60 × mile) / ((23 × hour) + (15 × minute) + (23 × second)) ≈ 0.06920008122 km/min

  23h15min23s / 60mi to min/km

    > 60mi/23h15min23s × (min/km) to time
    0:04:09.1202924

There is (perhaps unsuprisingly) a lot of overlap between what these scripts do and what Easy Data Transform does. But Easy Data Transform gives you the option to chain multiple transforms together and it runs locally (rather than uploading your potentially sensitive data to someone else's server). However it is commercial software, rather than free.

In other words, small shell scripts put on server side. Stuff like echo $TEXT | wc -w.

totally off-topic: my god the ads. they were so triggering for me, maybe I'm just not in a good mood.

Speaking of which, what are people using to procedurally convert JSON to XML locally? Let's say for JSON API use by a language that provides an XML library.

One curious thing about the What's My IP Address? page (the only one I looked at) -- it also detected 4 other devices on my network (192.168.xx.xx, 10.0.xx.xx, etc). But how?

Well, there's a list of 92 ip addresses (iplist -- it's a slightly weird list but I suppose it's based on common router and cable modem addresses). For each one, it runs an XmlHTTPRequest(). But none of the detected IP addresses are running web servers, you say. No matter. Most TCP stacks will send a TCP reset if there's nothing listening on the port (this can often be disabled with the proper incantation) which will result in an onerror callback and therefore there is a device If there is no device (or TCP reset is disabled) it will eventually result in the ontimeout callback. And of course, if there is a web server running, the success callback will trigger. So success or an failure indicates a device on your network.