# Austin Cheetham - Personal Website

> A personal website for Austin Cheetham, a software engineer and architect with 20+ years' experience building scalable systems, specialising in AI-assisted development.

This site contains free developer tools. Austin focuses on helping developers leverage AI coding assistants like Claude Code to accelerate their workflows and build better software.

Last updated: 2026-01-17

## Site Structure

- `/` - Homepage with bio and featured content
- `/me` - About page with professional background
- `/tools` - Free browser-based developer utilities
- `/books` - Book recommendations and notes

## Canonical Pages

- `/tools` - Developer tools directory
- `/me` - About Austin Cheetham
- `/tools/json` - JSON formatter and validator
- `/tools/jwt` - JWT decoder and inspector

## Developer Tools

All tools run entirely in the browser with no server processing:

- `/tools/base64` - Base64 encoder and decoder
- `/tools/url` - URL encoder and decoder
- `/tools/json` - JSON formatter and validator
- `/tools/xml` - XML formatter and validator
- `/tools/jwt` - JWT decoder and inspector
- `/tools/hash` - Text hashing (MD5, SHA-1, SHA-256, SHA-512)
- `/tools/uuid` - UUID generator (v1, v4, v7)
- `/tools/timestamp` - Unix timestamp converter
- `/tools/diff` - Text diff comparison tool

## Topics Covered

- AI-assisted development with Claude Code and other AI coding assistants
- Prompt engineering for software development
- Integrating AI tools into developer workflows
- Software architecture and system design
- TypeScript and JavaScript
- Cloud infrastructure (AWS, Cloudflare)
- Performance optimisation
- Developer productivity

## Contact

- GitHub: https://github.com/austincheetham
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/austincheetham
- Email: austin@austincheetham.com

## License

Developer tools are provided free for public use.