Below you will find pages that utilize the taxonomy term “Tools”

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Introducing Birdor Tools — A Calm, Developer-Friendly Toolbox for the Modern Web

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.

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:

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Birdor Update — Unified Badges, Prebuild Changelog Pipeline, and New 'What is Birdor' Page (2025-11-29)

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

Unified Updated Badge

Type: tool
Scope: ui-badges
Importance: minor

Summary

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

Details

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

MD → JSON Changelog Build Pipeline

Type: infra
Scope: build
Importance: minor

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Birdor Tools & Docs Update — JWT HS512, JSON Tree Collapsing, Changelog Launch (2025-11-28)

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

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.

JSON Formatter: Smarter Tree Collapsing

Type: tool
Scope: json-formatter
Importance: minor

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Lua for Game Development — Chapter 18: Engine Architecture, ECS, Plugins & Optimization

To complete your Lua game development knowledge, you must understand how to design a full engine:

  • entity management
  • components
  • systems
  • module lifecycle
  • asset management
  • scripting pipelines
  • performance tuning
  • optimization patterns
  • debugging & profiling

Lua excels as an engine scripting language due to:

  • fast VM
  • low memory footprint
  • simple integration with C/C++
  • natural data-driven design
  • coroutine support
  • quick iteration
  • extensibility

This chapter finalizes the architecture needed for professional, scalable Lua game engines.

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Birdor Tools & Docs Update — URL Parser Release (2025-11-25)

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.

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.

URL Parser Documentation Created

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

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Birdor Tools & Docs Update — JWT Debugger UI + Documentation (2025-11-23)

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.

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.

JWT Debugger Tool Guide Created

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

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Birdor Tools & Docs — Initial Structure Log (2025-11-18)

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.

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.

DocsShell v0.1 Introduced

Type: docs
Scope: docs-ui
Importance: minor

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