You Probably Don't Need a Server for That
A few months ago I needed to convert about forty HEIC photos from my phone into PNGs. The first three results on Google were all the same shape: drag your files here, we'll upload them, we'll email you a download link.
For photos. That were already on my laptop. That never needed to go anywhere.
That pattern made sense in 2012. The browser couldn't read binary files, couldn't decode images off the main thread, and had no cryptography to speak of. If you wanted to do real work with a file, a server had to do it.
That stopped being true a while ago, and a surprising amount of tooling hasn't caught up. Here's what the platform actually gives you now.
