Birdor 平台愿景

A calm, friendly toolkit and API platform for modern developers.

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1. What Is Birdor?

Birdor is a developer-first platform built on three pillars:

• Tools — clean, minimal browser tools that solve real, everyday problems.
• APIs — the same capabilities used by the tools, exposed as stable APIs.
• Console — a simple, honest dashboard for managing projects, keys, usage, logs, and billing.

Birdor is not a cloud giant or a heavy platform.
It is a lightweight, quiet, reliable companion for developers.

Birdor Platform Vision

A calm, friendly toolkit and API platform for modern developers.

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1. Birdor 是什么？

Birdor 是一个为开发者而生的 工具平台（Tools） + API 平台（APIs） + 控制台（Console）。
我们的目标并不是打造一个 “大型云平台”，而是：

Birdor Tools is now live.

A quiet companion for developers, built with the belief that good tools should feel calm, predictable, and pleasant to use.

Welcome to a place where engineering is simple again.

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What Is Birdor Tools?

Birdor Tools is a developer-first toolbox and knowledge hub, designed to combine:

• High-traffic foundational tools
  JSON formatter, UUID/Nanoid generator, Base64/Hash utilities, Regex tester, Cron visualizer, etc.
• Enhanced, AI-assisted developer tools
  Clear, deterministic output — not hallucinations.
• SaaS-ready APIs for production use
  Reliable, rate-limited, globally cached.

It is not a “tool dump”.
It is a curated, intentional, long-term product that emphasizes:

This update brings UI improvements, infrastructure enhancements, and a major new documentation feature: the official “What is Birdor?” product overview page.

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Unified Updated Badge

Type: tool
Scope: ui-badges
Importance: minor

Summary

Introduced the universal “● Updated” badge for use across Tools, Docs, and the Changelog.

Details

• Supports ● Updated and ✨ New variants.
• Integrated in the Tools grid, Docs notice bar, and Changelog entries.
• Ensures consistent visual language for updates across the product.

Links

• Tools

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MD → JSON Changelog Build Pipeline

Type: infra
Scope: build
Importance: minor

This update brings enhancements across multiple Birdor tools and introduces the official Changelog system, providing a public and structured way to track product improvements.

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JWT Debugger: HS512 Support and Expiry Hints

Type: tool
Scope: jwt-debugger
Importance: minor

Summary

Added HS512 verification and clearer interpretation for JWT time-based claims.

Details

• HS512 is now available alongside HS256 and HS384.
• exp, iat, and nbf claims now show human-readable timestamps, improving clarity during debugging.

Links

• JWT Debugger

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JSON Formatter: Smarter Tree Collapsing

Type: tool
Scope: json-formatter
Importance: minor

Python is simple to learn, expressive to write, and powerful enough to build systems of any scale — from automation scripts to backend APIs and machine learning pipelines.

This handbook contains 20 concise, developer-friendly chapters, each focusing on practical understanding and working examples.

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Chapter 1 — What Is Python & Why It Matters

Python is a high-level, cross-platform, readable language created in 1991.
Its design goals:

• readability
• developer productivity
• “batteries-included” standard library
• large ecosystem of packages

Python powers:

This update introduces a comprehensive SEO improvement for all Birdor tool pages and a usability enhancement with the addition of a GitHub link in the site header.

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SEO Metadata Added for All Tools

Type: website
Scope: seo
Importance: minor

Summary

Standardized per-tool SEO metadata across the Tools section, ensuring consistent and clear presentation for search engines and social previews.

Details

• Added SEO configs for JSON, JWT, URL, Base64, and UUID tools.
• Introduced global SEO helper templates for consistent rendering.
• Improved Open Graph metadata for link previews and sharing across platforms.

Links

• Tools

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GitHub Icon Added to Site Header

Type: website
Scope: header
Importance: minor

A complete, practical, production-ready guide to using Lua for modern game development — from syntax basics to engine architecture, AI, networking, tools and full deployment.

This update introduces the full release of the URL Parser & Query Editor, one of Birdor’s essential web debugging tools.
The accompanying documentation provides a deep technical reference for URL parsing, normalization, and edge-case behavior.

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URL Parser & Query Editor Released

Type: tool
Scope: url-parser
Importance: minor

Summary

Launched the complete URL Parser & Query Editor tool with full URL breakdown and live reconstruction preview.

Details

• Added URL breakdown for protocol, hostname, path, query, hash.
• Added UI to add / remove / edit query parameters.
• Introduced normalized URL reconstruction with proper percent-encoding rules.

Links

• URL Parser

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URL Parser Documentation Created

Type: docs
Scope: docs-url-parser
Importance: minor

This update focuses on both the JWT Debugger tool UI and its corresponding documentation guide, providing a complete end-to-end experience for developers inspecting and validating JSON Web Tokens on Birdor.

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JWT Debugger UI Foundation Created

Type: tool
Scope: jwt-debugger
Importance: minor

Summary

The initial UI foundation for the JWT Debugger is now in place, including decode panels and token validation views.

Details

• Added header / payload / signature display sections.
• Added visual highlighting for invalid and expired tokens.
• Implemented a Base64URL decoder with automatic padding correction.

Links

• JWT Debugger

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JWT Debugger Tool Guide Created

Type: docs
Scope: docs-jwt-debugger
Importance: minor

A calm, practical guide to loading, caching, and streaming data in modern React applications.

Data fetching is one of the biggest changes in the Next.js App Router era.
Instead of manually orchestrating waterfalls, suspense boundaries, and client-side fetches, Next.js encourages a server-first, cached-by-default model that results in faster and more predictable applications.

But the shift introduces new concepts:

• Where does fetch() actually run?
• When does Next.js cache responses?
• What is “revalidation”?
• How do you fetch data per segment?
• What’s the right pattern for production apps?

This chapter provides a complete, practical understanding — calm, clear, and grounded.

A calm, practical guide to understanding what runs on the server, what runs in the browser, and why this distinction matters in modern React development.

Server Components are one of the defining features of modern Next.js.
They represent a shift in how we think about rendering, data fetching, and performance.
But they also introduce new questions:

• What exactly is a Server Component?
• When do I need a Client Component?
• How do they interact?
• What patterns lead to stable, predictable apps?

In this chapter, we’ll clarify these ideas — simply, calmly, without hype.

Next.js uses your folder structure as your routing system.
This can feel simple at first (“a folder becomes a URL”), but under the surface, file-based routing is one of the most expressive tools in modern web development.

In this chapter, we’ll take a calm, structured look at how routing works in the App Router, and how to use it to build clear, scalable, real-world applications.

No complicated abstractions — just practical, predictable patterns.

The App Router is one of the most important ideas in modern Next.js.
It replaces the old Pages Router with a more flexible, more intuitive, and more scalable way to structure your application.

Instead of thinking in terms of “pages with lifecycle functions,” you design your app in terms of composable layouts, nested routes, and Server/Client Components working together.

In this chapter, we’ll explore what the App Router is, why it matters, and how to use it without confusion or unnecessary complexity.

Next.js is one of the most capable frameworks in the modern React ecosystem.
It can power simple marketing pages, content sites, and fully-fledged SaaS products — all from the same toolkit.

This Birdor-style series is a calm, structured learning path that helps you:

• Understand what Next.js actually does (and what it doesn’t).
• Build real applications instead of toy examples.
• Ship production-grade apps with sane defaults: routing, data fetching, auth, performance, deployment.

No hype, no magic. Just practical, modern web engineering.

Next.js is a React framework that helps you build fast, production-ready web apps without drowning in configuration.
Instead of stitching together routing, bundling, SSR, API endpoints, and deployment by hand, you get a batteries-included toolkit that still feels close to plain React.

This article is a calm, practical overview of what Next.js is, why it’s useful, and how it fits into a modern Jamstack / full-stack workflow.

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What is Next.js?

At its core, Next.js is:

This development log introduces the Tool Guides section in Birdor Docs — the first structured area dedicated to tool-specific documentation.
This launch marks an important step toward a unified, readable, and expandable documentation system.

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Docs: Tool Guides Section Launched

Type: docs
Scope: docs:tool-guides
Importance: minor

Summary

Added dedicated documentation pages for:

• JSON Formatter
• JWT Debugger
• URL Parser

These are now the foundational tool docs inside the Birdor documentation system.

Details

• Introduced shared documentation components:
  • DocsShell
  • DocsSection
  • DocsCard
  • DocsTable
• Established the groundwork for future API documentation, architecture deep dives, and developer onboarding guides.

Links

• Docs Home

Cloudflare DNS is one of the fastest and most reliable DNS services in the world. It’s also one of the easiest to use. Whether you’re hosting a Hugo site, an API, or a full web application, Cloudflare DNS gives you a stable foundation with minimal maintenance.

This tutorial provides a calm, practical walkthrough of managing domains on Cloudflare. If you’re new to DNS, don’t worry — our goal is clarity, not complexity.

Cloudflare has grown into one of the most influential platforms in modern web architecture. What began as a CDN and security provider has expanded into a full edge-compute ecosystem used by small blogs, large SaaS platforms, and high-traffic global services.

This tutorial provides a calm, straightforward overview of Cloudflare — what it does, how its global network operates, and how each product fits into a modern developer workflow.

If you’re new to Cloudflare or simply want a clearer mental model, this is the place to begin.

This development log documents several UI component additions for the Birdor Docs system, along with the first full documentation page for the JSON Formatter & Viewer tool.
These updates improve documentation consistency, readability, and reusable structure.

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DocsSection Component Added

Type: docs
Scope: docs-ui
Importance: minor

Summary

Introduced DocsSection to standardize headings and spacing across Birdor documentation.

Details

• Supports h2 / h3 / h4 with consistent spacing.
• Unified typography scale and hierarchical structure.
• Reduced duplicated markup in multiple docs pages.

Links

• Docs Home

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DocsCard & DocsTable Components

Type: docs
Scope: docs-ui
Importance: minor

This document records the initial implementation work for the Birdor Tools page and the first version of the DocsShell layout system.
These foundational structures set the baseline for future expansion across Birdor Tools and Birdor Docs.

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Initial Tools Page Structure

Type: tool
Scope: tools-page
Importance: minor

Summary

Set up the first iteration of the /tools layout and grid structure.

Details

• Created basic Tools page with grid layout.
• Added placeholder cards for JSON, JWT, URL tools.
• Unified basic Tailwind spacing, max-width, and container structure.

Links

• Tools Home

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DocsShell v0.1 Introduced

Type: docs
Scope: docs-ui
Importance: minor