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No listicles and no news roundups. Each post explains one job, shows the settings that matter, and links to the tool that does it.
How to get a PDF under an upload limit without wrecking the text
Compression trades detail for size. Here is which settings to move first, and how to tell when a scan has gone too far to print.
PDF tools · 18 August 2026 · 6 min read
Everything else we have published
A word-count workflow for essays with a hard limit
Cut 400 words without losing the argument: what to measure, in what order, and which sentences to look at first.
11 August 2026 · 5 min read
Meta descriptions that survive truncation
Search results cut on pixels, not characters. Write the first 120 so the sentence still works when the rest disappears.
4 August 2026 · 7 min read
WebP, AVIF, or JPG: picking a format in 2026
Support is no longer the deciding factor. Weight, editing, and where the image ends up are.
28 July 2026 · 8 min read
Citations for sources that do not fit the template
Datasets, preprints, lecture slides, and a tweet: how each style wants them, with worked examples.
21 July 2026 · 9 min read
Reading an EMI schedule before you sign anything
The monthly figure is the least interesting number. Here is what to look at in the amortisation table.
14 July 2026 · 6 min read
Client-side tools and what “your file never leaves your device” means
A plain explanation of what a browser can process locally, and where a server is still unavoidable.
7 July 2026 · 7 min read
Earlier
SEO tools · 30 June 2026
A heading structure audit in ten minutes
Skipped levels and duplicate H1s are the most common accessibility problem we see. Both are quick to fix.
Changelog · 23 June 2026
What we shipped in June: batch image tools and a faster PDF engine
Nine new tools, two rewrites, and one thing we removed because almost nobody used it.
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