🛠️ The Shell Sharpeners
A curated hall of eight free, no-signup developer resources — CLI cookbooks, disaster-recovery guides and 100% client-side browser tools. Everything runs in your terminal or your tab; nothing phones home.
The Collection
tools Free browser dev tools — JWT decoder, cron parser, epoch converter, UUID, hashes, JSON/base64. 100% client-side, zero tracking.
Open free → tools Companion in-browser developer kit: formatters, encoders and converters that never send your data anywhere.
Open free → reference Practical jq recipes for real-world JSON: reshape, filter, select and transform with copy-paste examples.
Open free → reference Task-first ffmpeg command cookbook: convert, trim, compress, extract audio and make GIFs without memorizing flags.
Open free → reference Recover from git disasters — undo reset --hard, restore deleted branches, survive rebase conflicts. Free #1 answer + 52-scenario cookbook.
Open free → reference Fix “no space left on device” fast — free complete answer plus a 54-scenario Docker disk emergency cookbook.
Open free → reference Print-ready cheatsheets for bash, find, sed, awk and friends — the commands you keep re-googling on one page.
Open free → tool Live EVM gas price radar across chains so you can time transactions instead of overpaying.
Open free → Embeddable Widgets
Paste one line into any README or docs page to share these tools. Every widget links back here with a ref tag. Copy the snippet under each preview:
Git Panic Box For anyone whose README touches git history. A calm 'don't panic' panel linking straight to the free recovery walkthrough.git-rescue-guide
<a href="https://ghassan-gaidi.github.io/git-rescue-guide/?ref=specC2" title="Git Panic Box"><img alt="Git Panic Box" src="https://ghassan-gaidi.github.io/specC2-showcase/widgets/git-panic-box.svg" width="240"></a>jq Quick-Ref Box A compact jq cheat strip for repos that wrangle JSON — links to the full field guide.jq-field-guide
<a href="https://ghassan-gaidi.github.io/jq-field-guide/?ref=specC2" title="jq Quick-Ref Box"><img alt="jq Quick-Ref Box" src="https://ghassan-gaidi.github.io/specC2-showcase/widgets/json-jq-box.svg" width="240"></a>ffmpeg OneBox One-line ffmpeg answers for READMEs about media processing; deep-links to the task cookbook.ffmpeg-cookbook
<a href="https://ghassan-gaidi.github.io/ffmpeg-cookbook/?ref=specC2" title="ffmpeg OneBox"><img alt="ffmpeg OneBox" src="https://ghassan-gaidi.github.io/specC2-showcase/widgets/ffmpeg-onebox.svg" width="240"></a>Privacy-First DevTools Badge Badge for projects that ship client-side-only tooling — links to the toolkit collection.specA1-toolkit
<a href="https://ghassan-gaidi.github.io/specA1-toolkit/?ref=specC2" title="Privacy-First DevTools Badge"><img alt="Privacy-First DevTools Badge" src="https://ghassan-gaidi.github.io/specC2-showcase/widgets/devkit-badge.svg" width="240"></a>Support the Lab
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Embeddable widgets: SVG widget gallery — one-line README embeds linking back to every tool.
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