Useful, not gimmicky.
No sign-up, no email wall, nothing to fill in first. These are simple, proven ways of thinking that the best technology leaders already use, laid out so you can read one in a minute and share it in two.
Frameworks worth borrowing.
DPDP readiness checklist
Pick your kind of business, tick what applies, and see the data-protection controls you need in place before you go live in India.
Based on India’s DPDP Act, 2023LeadershipFirst 90 Days as a CTO
Pick the situation you’re stepping into, and get a clear 30/60/90-day plan for a new tech leader.
After Michael Watkins, The First 90 DaysDeliveryDORA metrics, honestly
The four numbers that show whether your team ships well, plus where most teams actually land.
Google Cloud DORA researchReliabilityThe nines & your error budget
What 99.9% uptime really means in real downtime, plus the simple ‘error budget’ idea.
Google SRESecurityNIST CSF 2.0 explorer
The six parts of the security framework everyone uses, explained in plain language.
NIST (public domain)SecurityOWASP Top 10 (2025)
The ten most important web security risks, ranked, with what changed in 2025.
OWASP Foundation (CC BY-SA)StrategyHow to read a Wardley Map
The strategy map serious tech leaders love, shown on one example. What to build, buy, or rent.
Simon Wardley (CC BY-SA)StrategyYour operating model, in one 2×2
Four ways a company can run its technology, and what each one needs to work well.
MIT Sloan CISR (Weill & Ross)CareersThe engineering leadership ladder
What really changes at each step from Senior Engineer to CTO, including the jump nobody warns you about.
After Charan, Drotter & Noel, The Leadership PipelineThe quiet workhorses.
Small developer tools that run entirely in your browser, nothing you paste ever leaves the page.
JSON formatter
Paste, pretty-print, minify, validate. Local only.
JWT decoder
Header + payload decoded client-side, with exp/iat in plain English.
Hash generator
SHA-1/256/384/512 live as you type, via Web Crypto.
Base64 encode / decode
UTF-8-safe, both directions, in the browser.
URL encode / decode
Percent-encoding both ways. No round trip to a server.
UUID generator
Fresh v4 UUIDs on tap, copy one or all.
Unix timestamp converter
Epoch to UTC / ISO / local, and back. Seconds or millis.