# What are some random obscure coding-related tools you use?

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/what-are-some-random-obscure-coding-related-tools-you-use/637943
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**Created:** [March 17, 2018, 6:38pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/what-are-some-random-obscure-coding-related-tools-you-use/637943 "2018-03-17T18:38:04Z")
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### Author: ![kirupa](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/kirupa/32/11616_2.png) [@kirupa](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/kirupa)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2018, 6:38pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/what-are-some-random-obscure-coding-related-tools-you-use/637943/1 "2018-03-17T18:38:05Z")

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One of the things I’ve realized is that a lot of us have some weird requirements as part of our jobs. I tried explaining some of them to my friends recently, and I just got some blank stares back 👓

What are some of those obscure tools in your world?

For me, it is this: **[https://www.freeformatter.com/xml-escape.html](https://www.freeformatter.com/xml-escape.html)**

I do a lot of copy/pasting of code into HTML for the articles I write, and escaping all of the weird characters that break HTML is time-consuming. This tool fixes this problem 🙂

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### Author: ![tbo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7feea3/32.png) [@tbo](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/tbo)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2018, 11:48pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/what-are-some-random-obscure-coding-related-tools-you-use/637943/2 "2018-03-17T23:48:25Z")

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This isn’t one I use a lot but it’s a great free bitmap font creation tool. I just realized on my phone it’s a flash program so…enjoy the blank page unfortunately. ☹

[http://kvazars.com/littera/](http://kvazars.com/littera/)

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### Author: ![krilnon](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/krilnon/32/34_2.png) [@krilnon](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/krilnon)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2018, 6:23am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/what-are-some-random-obscure-coding-related-tools-you-use/637943/3 "2018-03-18T06:23:37Z")

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This [style guide for writing in code voice](https://help.apple.com/applestyleguide/#/apsg1fde73a3).

`xcode-select` for swapping which `swiftc` I’m using.

> [@kirupa](#):
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> I tried explaining some of them to my friends recently, and I just got some blank stares back 👓

Yeah, sometimes the language you use in a team or dept really doesn’t translate well outside of that group.