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Small web tools, made for no particularly grand reason

Through tools we as humans overpowered nature, other species and other humans. We could argue that tools make us Homo Sapiens, but that's another story. Here, I'm making small bits of web utilities for various experiments, minor inconveniences, and moments where the path of least resistance could be a little clearer.

Crawler IP verifier

Check crawler IPs and user-agent claims against published ranges.

One shed dragonfly exuviae (nymph molt) clinging to a wet, textured rock face near water. Samothraki, 2020

Robots.txt checker

Audit, create, and test robots.txt rules for different web crawlers.

TODO Brighton, UK 2023

What should you watch next?

Let me suggest a movie from my collection of 2.300+ watched titles.

Black and white screening of a movie in an open-air cinema in Athens, Greece taken by Alexander Kyriakou in summer of 2025

Greek to Latin characters converter

Transliterate Greek text to Latin per official conventions.

Wall art in a pub in Warsaw, Poland taken by Alexander Kyriakou in spring of 2025