Text & developer tips
Plain-language guides to text, passwords, JSON, encodings and PDF files.
- Text & developer tips Robots.txt and sitemaps: what they do and what they do not Two small files help search engines find your pages. Learn what robots.txt can and cannot control, what a sitemap is for, and the mistakes that hide…
- Text & developer tips How long should a page title and meta description be? Search results cut text by width, not by character count. Here is what that means for your titles and descriptions, and how to check them before you…
- Text & developer tips PDF to Word: what to expect when you convert a PDF to a document Converting a PDF back to Word never gives a perfect copy. Learn why, how to tell a text PDF from a scan, and what to fix by hand afterwards.
- Text & developer tips camelCase, snake_case and kebab-case: naming styles compared Programmers write multi-word names without spaces using camelCase, snake_case or kebab-case. See what each looks like, where it is used and how to co…
- Text & developer tips Base64 and URL encoding explained, with examples Base64 and percent-encoding both turn data into safe text, but for different jobs. Learn what each does, when to use which and why neither is encrypt…
- Text & developer tips How to convert a Word document to PDF and what can change Sending a Word file as PDF keeps people from editing it by accident. Here is what a PDF conversion keeps, what can shift, and how to check the result…
- Text & developer tips How to validate and fix JSON: the most common errors explained Trailing commas, single quotes and missing brackets break JSON. Learn the strict rules, how to read an error message and how to format JSON safely.
- Text & developer tips How to create a strong password (and why length beats symbols) A strong password is long, random and used only once. This guide explains entropy in plain words, what to avoid and how a password manager fits in.
- Text & developer tips How word count and reading time are worked out (and why tools disagree) Two word counters can give different totals for the same text. This guide explains how words, characters and reading time are counted, and which limi…