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    <title>What Actually Makes a Password Strong</title>
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    <updated>2026-08-14T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
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    <summary>Complexity rules, forced rotation and special characters are mostly theatre. Here is how passwords are actually attacked, and what defends against it.</summary>
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    <title>The Maths Behind Loans and Investments</title>
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    <updated>2026-08-21T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
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    <summary>Every financial calculator runs on three formulas. Understanding them tells you why a 30-year loan costs so much more, and why starting to invest early matters more than the rate.</summary>
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    <title>Why Your Images Are Too Heavy</title>
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    <id>https://omnitools.website/guides/why-your-images-are-too-heavy/</id>
    <updated>2026-08-28T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
    <category term="Performance"/>
    <summary>Images dominate page weight on most sites, and most of that weight is avoidable. Formats, dimensions, quality settings and the two HTML attributes that matter most.</summary>
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  <entry>
    <title>Why Client-Side Tools Are Safer for Sensitive Data</title>
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    <updated>2026-09-02T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
    <category term="Privacy"/>
    <summary>Pasting data into an online tool is a disclosure to whoever runs it. Here is what that actually means, and why browser-side processing changes the risk rather than reducing it.</summary>
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    <title>Regular Expressions: A Practical Introduction</title>
    <link href="https://omnitools.website/guides/regular-expressions-practical-introduction/"/>
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    <updated>2026-09-05T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
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    <summary>Regex has a reputation for being write-only. Most of that comes from three specific misunderstandings, all of which are fixable in an afternoon.</summary>
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    <title>Character Encoding Explained: Unicode, UTF-8 and Mojibake</title>
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    <updated>2026-09-08T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
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    <summary>Where Ã© comes from, why emoji break string length, and how to trace an encoding problem back to the layer that caused it.</summary>
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