Twenty-nine essays. One volume.
The writing from the Tooly blog — on privacy, file formats, JWTs, favicons, regex, shadow IT, and why "free" tools aren't free — collected, edited, and laid out for offline reading.
Every essay on the blog stays free on the web. This book is for readers who want the collection in one place: PDF and EPUB, no DRM, yours to keep.
What's inside
Tools and Trust: Honest Notes on Web Tooling, File Formats, and the Open Web gathers 38 essays from the workshop, including:
- Why "free" online tools aren't actually free
- What "client-side" actually means
- JWT decoded, shadow IT at the browser, and what word count measures
- File-format deep dives: favicon.ico, HEIC, magic numbers, SVG bloat, KB vs KiB
- Practical guides: chmod, cron, Markdown, WCAG contrast, regex backtracking
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Price & format
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