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Notes on where data goes when you paste it somewhere, how to check a tool's claims for yourself, and the developer fundamentals that get misremembered often enough to cause outages.
// Privacy
What actually happens when you paste data into an online tool
Most “online” tools process your input on a server. That single design choice turns a formatting task into a data transfer, with all the logging, retention and jurisdiction questions that follow.
3 September 2026 · 8 min read
// How-to
How to tell whether a web tool really runs in your browser
Marketing copy cannot be verified. The Network tab can. This is the check, what a clean result looks like, and the three ambiguous cases worth understanding.
3 September 2026 · 7 min read
// Fundamentals
Base64 is not encryption, and the confusion is expensive
Base64 hides nothing. It exists to move binary data through text-only channels. Treating it as protection is a recurring cause of credential leaks.
3 September 2026 · 6 min read
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