Why I Built a Privacy-First Dev Toolkit
Priyanka Patel created ToolsMania, a suite of privacy-first developer and finance tools that operate entirely in the browser. This initiative was inspired by a personal experience of accidentally exposing sensitive data while using online tools. ToolsMania aims to provide essential functionalities without compromising user privacy or data retention.
- ▪ToolsMania includes features like SmartParser, API Studio, and a JWT Decoder, all designed for developers.
- ▪The toolkit operates entirely client-side, ensuring that no data is stored or transmitted to external servers.
- ▪It also offers financial planning tools such as a Compound Interest Calculator and Mortgage Calculators.
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try { if(localStorage) { let currentUser = localStorage.getItem('current_user'); if (currentUser) { currentUser = JSON.parse(currentUser); if (currentUser.id === 3949406) { document.getElementById('article-show-container').classList.add('current-user-is-article-author'); } } } } catch (e) { console.error(e); } Priyanka Patel Posted on May 24 Why I Built a Privacy-First Dev Toolkit #devops #opensource #tooling #webdev A few months ago, I was debugging a production API issue. I copied a JWT from our logs, pasted it into an "online decoder," and immediately felt sick. I had just sent a live production token to a stranger's server. That moment led to ToolsMania — a suite of developer and finance tools that run entirely in your browser. No server. No database. No data retention.
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