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Show HN: VS Code Extension to skip the noisy web tools (JSON Prettify, and more) (marketplace.visualstudio.com)
24 points by itsharveenatwal 697 days ago
Hi HN,

Simple online tools on the web have become unnecessary greedy. For example,

* https://jsonformatter.org/ displays 7 ads on page load

* https://convertcase.net/ had 4 ads plus a Google Vignette.

And many more sites do the same thing.

It's just noisy, which is why I created this VS Code Extension where you don't need to even leave your editor for your small web operations. I also built a Desktop app and an online version, which can be reached or downloaded at smallonlinetools.net. Both of which will be ad-free forever.

So far smallonlinetools.net has over 150 tools and I add more everyday! Give it a try and leave me a review is all I ask! Perhaps, share with your friends so we can rank better on Google!
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eddythompson80 697 days ago
There is also IT-Tools and CyberChef. Selfhost-able projects to create your own instance of "online utilities tools"

https://gchq.github.io/CyberChef/

https://it-tools.tech/

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itsharveenatwal 697 days ago
Oh these are great! I guess my differentiator is that i want to be on every medium hence the vs code extension and the desktop app for offline usage.
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gchq-7703 697 days ago
CyberChef supports offline usage, just save the page!

If you want a "quick" way to add a bunch more operators, all of ours are available via the 'cyberchef' NPM package[0] and the license permits embedding into other applications.

[0] https://github.com/gchq/CyberChef/wiki/Node-API

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graypegg 697 days ago
Neat! The website is pretty slick. If you would ever consider it, being able to chain up transforms would be useful! Just piping 2 or 3 together, pipes like

normalize-text-spacing => fix-distance-between-paragraphs-and-lines => remove-diacritics

could be useful for 1-off "I'm trying to read mangled text from a bad OCR pdf" cases. Bonus points if settings could be encoded in the URL, so you can book mark the whole pipe and it's settings.

Also one other minor thing, I always like when case transforms write their name in the case mode, like Train-Case or Pascal_Snake_Case. I just find the names really obtuse, it's just easier to skim if you can see a sample of it.

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itsharveenatwal 697 days ago
Great suggestions! I'll add chaining to my feature backlog and get back to you when that's done!

Your case name suggestion makes a lot of sense. I'll make that update very soon.

Thanks for your feedback!

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