There's a certain kind of developer task that takes two minutes but somehow costs you twenty. You need to quickly format a JSON response you copied from the terminal. So you open VS Code. Then you realize you need a new file. You paste it in, run the formatter, realize it's got a syntax error somewhere, hunt it down, fix it. By the time you're done you've completely lost the thread of what you were actually trying to debug.
It sounds minor. But if that happens four or five times a day, it adds up. Flow state is hard to get back once you've broken it.
Browser tools that are just... faster
The AllToolGPT Developer Toolkit is basically a tab I keep open. The JSON Formatter validates and formats instantly - syntax errors are flagged inline, the structure collapses cleanly, and I'm back to what I was doing in under a minute. The SVG Path Editor has saved me from opening Illustrator for tiny coordinate tweaks more times than I can count.
The Code Diff tool is the one I reach for when I'm reviewing what changed between two config versions or comparing an API response against what I expected. Nothing groundbreaking - it just works, it's quick, and I don't have to install anything or paste my code into some site I don't trust.
That last part is more important than it sounds. I'm often formatting things with API keys, internal endpoints, or query logic I don't want sitting on someone else's server. Local processing isn't just a nice feature. For a lot of daily dev work, it's the only sensible approach.
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