About WebDev Tools

Yeah, I know. The ten-thousandth collection of tools on the internet. Who even needs that?
But I can put your minds at ease. This project was never planned. It’s an accident, a product of pure procrastination, but it also arose out of a genuine need. It all started quite innocently on my desktop.

In the beginning, there was the script.

Like many developers, I had various homemade tools saved on my localhost. Little scripts for everyday annoyances: an em/px conversion here, a little helper there. Things I was too lazy to look up on the same websites every time. I’m absolutely at war with bookmarks, after all.

These little helpers did their job well. But then I added two more, and my web developer’s instinct struck mercilessly: I started linking them together. I needed a menu. A little styling. And suddenly I was right in the middle of everything that comes to mind when you’re trying to successfully distract yourself from your actual work. The simple collection turned into a full-fledged project. I just had to “pimp” it until I had a proper little website with all the bells and whistles right in front of me.

From script chaos to a real web app.

I wanted to turn those scattered scripts into a reliable platform. To speed up the development process and make code structuring more efficient, I integrated Claude Code directly into my workflow. But the focus was always on pragmatism: the tools should load quickly, be intuitive to use, and do exactly what they’re supposed to do, without unnecessary bells and whistles. Every web developer knows the temptation to get lost in endless discussions about the perfect framework or the most elegant architecture. Instead, I opted for the direct approach: a solid Bootstrap foundation, a clean codebase, and the ironclad rule that “finished and working” is more valuable than theoretical perfection.

From the Intranet to the Wild Web

Once the toolset was complete, it served us well for quite some time on our company network. At some point, I thought to myself: Why not share it with the whole world?

However, when releasing a project for the internet, it shouldn’t be held back by language barriers. So I was once again driven by ambition and added multilingual support to the system before its release, to make it accessible to an international audience. To implement this in a pragmatic and efficient way, I relied entirely on DeepL for the text translations.

Afterward, I cleaned up the code and made the site public. Since the whole thing arose from an “accident” anyway and thrives on the open-source philosophy, the code is completely open. Anyone who wants to tinker with it, has an idea for a new tool, or finds a bug is warmly invited to get involved. You can find the Git repo here: https://github.com/RamonKaes/WebDev-Tools.

Yeah, sorry. So here it is, the 10,000th tool collection. But hey, at least it has a good backstory, and who knows—maybe it’ll save you just as much time searching in your daily life as it did for me!

Have fun with it!

Ramon