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GuideConcepts and technologiesBeginner

Burn rate and runway: how long can cash last?

Manage business finances

Learn how burn rate and runway are calculated, the difference between gross and net burn, and why runway is not a full cash forecast.

25 September 20262 min
GuideConcepts and technologiesBeginner

Hijri and Gregorian calendars: how to convert a date

Religious calendars and observances

Understand how the lunar Hijri calendar differs from the Gregorian calendar, why calculated dates can vary from local observance, and how to convert both ways.

17 September 20263 min
GuideConcepts and technologiesBeginner

Hebrew and Gregorian calendars: understand and convert dates

Religious calendars and observances

Learn how the lunisolar Hebrew calendar works, why leap years add a month, how nightfall affects the date and how to convert between Hebrew and Gregorian dates.

17 September 20263 min
GuideBest practicesBeginner

Shabbat times: sunset, candle-lighting and Havdalah explained

Religious calendars and observances

Learn why Shabbat times depend on city and date, why candle-lighting is set before Friday sunset and why Havdalah conventions can produce different end times.

17 September 20263 min
GuideConcepts and technologiesBeginner

Why does Easter move, and why can Orthodox Easter be different?

Religious calendars and observances

Understand the Easter computus, why Western and Orthodox calculations can produce different dates, and how Ascension, Pentecost and other movable observances are derived.

17 September 20263 min
GuideBest practicesBeginner

Zakat and Nisab: understanding the 2.5% calculation

Religious calendars and observances

Learn how the Nisab threshold, gold and silver standards, net eligible assets and the 2.5% rate fit together - and where a Zakat calculator's assumptions matter.

17 September 20263 min
GuideConcepts and technologiesBeginner

Rahu Kalam: how the daily period is calculated

Religious calendars and observances

Understand the traditional Rahu Kalam calculation from local sunrise and sunset, eight daylight segments and the weekday mapping.

17 September 20263 min
TutorialBest practicesBeginner

How to securely redact a PDF before sharing it

Mastering PDF files

Learn why covering text is not enough, how secure PDF redaction removes sensitive information and why sanitization matters before sharing.

10 September 20262 min
GuideBest practicesBeginner

How to calculate work hours with a break

Master dates and time

Calculate actual working time between a start and end time, subtract breaks and handle shifts that cross midnight.

8 September 20262 min
GuideConcepts and technologiesBeginner

Date formats: DD/MM/YYYY, MM/DD/YYYY and ISO 8601

Master dates and time

Understand common date formats, avoid international ambiguity and learn when to use local dates, ISO 8601 or Unix timestamps.

8 September 20261 min
GuideBest practicesBeginner

Date and time calculations: a practical guide

Master dates and time

Date differences, durations, business days, ISO weeks, recurrences and formats: choose the right date and time calculation.

7 September 20262 min
GuideBest practicesIntermediate

Time zones and meetings: avoid offset mistakes

Master dates and time

Convert times between countries, understand daylight saving time and find international meeting slots without mental arithmetic.

7 September 20262 min
GuideConcepts and technologiesIntermediate

NPV, IRR and payback period: evaluate an investment

Understand NPV, IRR and payback period, their differences and limitations, and how to use them together when comparing investment projects.

7 September 20264 min
GuideBest practicesBeginner

How to optimize 50 images for the Web at once

Mastering the Workspace and pipelines

Resize a batch of images, convert them to WebP and remove metadata with one reusable Pipeline.

6 September 20262 min
GuideBest practicesBeginner

How to clean and OCR a scanned PDF

Mastering the Workspace and pipelines

Clean a scanned PDF before OCR to remove unnecessary pages and create a more useful searchable document.

6 September 20262 min
GuideConcepts and technologiesBeginner

Debt-to-income ratio: how to calculate and interpret DTI

Understand your personal finances

Learn how to calculate debt-to-income from income, housing and monthly debt payments, why residual income matters, and how a new payment changes the picture.

5 September 20265 min
ReferenceConcepts and technologiesBeginner

How Is a Digital Image Built?

Images for the Web

Understand how pixels, color channels, bit depth, and transparency come together to form an image displayed on a screen.

31 August 202615 min
GuideConcepts and technologiesBeginner

What Image Resolution Should You Choose?

Images for the Web

Distinguish pixel dimensions, pixel density, and DPI so you can resize images for the Web or print without unnecessary loss of sharpness.

31 August 202616 min
ReferenceConcepts and technologiesBeginner

RGB, HEX, or HSL: Which Color Notation Should You Use?

Images for the Web

Understand how RGB, HEX, and HSL describe sRGB colors so you can choose readable CSS notation and convert values without confusion.

31 August 202613 min
GuideBest practicesBeginner

How to Create a Color Palette From an Image

Images for the Web

Extract dominant colors from an image, assign them useful roles, and build a coherent palette without confusing frequency with visual importance.

31 August 202619 min
GuideBest practicesBeginner

WCAG Contrast: How to Make Colors Accessible

Images for the Web

Understand WCAG contrast thresholds, measure color combinations, and fix cases that make an interface harder to read or use.

31 August 202618 min
GuideFormatsBeginner

SVG: Understanding the Vector Format

Images for the Web

Learn how SVG describes shapes, uses viewBox, integrates into Web pages, and should be handled for responsiveness, accessibility, and security.

31 August 202622 min
GuideBest practicesIntermediate

Responsive Images: Understanding srcset and sizes

Images for the Web

Understand srcset, sizes, width and density descriptors, picture, art direction, and how browsers choose the right responsive image candidate.

31 August 202613 min
GuideBest practicesBeginner

Image Metadata: Read It, Keep It, or Remove It?

Images for the Web

Understand EXIF, GPS, XMP, IPTC, ICC profiles, rights information, and how to manage image metadata for privacy, publishing, and Web performance.

31 August 202613 min
GuideBest practicesIntermediate

How to Optimize Images for Web Performance

Images for the Web

Build a complete Web image optimization pipeline: dimensions, formats, compression, responsive variants, metadata, loading, caching, LCP, CLS, and measurement.

31 August 202613 min
GuideBest practicesBeginner

How much paint does a room need?

Plan construction projects

Calculate paintable area, coats, coverage and the cans to buy.

30 August 20262 min
GuideBest practicesIntermediate

Normalize audio volume: peak, RMS and LUFS

Master audio processing

Understand peak level, RMS and LUFS, when normalization is useful, and how to make several audio files sound more consistent.

30 August 20262 min
GuideFormatsIntermediate

Audio compression: bitrate, format and quality

Master audio processing

Learn how bitrate, lossy and lossless compression affect audio quality and file size, and choose sensible settings for distribution.

30 August 20262 min
GuideBest practicesBeginner

Change audio speed, add fades and reverse sound

Master audio processing

Understand speed changes, fade-ins, fade-outs and audio reversal, with practical advice for editing and reusable browser workflows.

30 August 20262 min
GuideConcepts and technologiesIntermediate

Audio sample rate: 44.1 kHz, 48 kHz and resampling

Master audio processing

Understand sample rate, why 44.1 kHz and 48 kHz are common, and when converting an audio file sample rate is actually useful.

30 August 20261 min
NewsConcepts and technologiesIntermediate

Is local browser processing replacing traditional online tools?

Mastering the Workspace and pipelines

WebAssembly, browser APIs and faster devices enable more processing locally. How far can this approach replace services that upload files to servers?

30 August 20264 min
TutorialBest practicesBeginner

Optimize images for the Web without losing quality

Images for the Web

Resize, compress and choose between WebP, AVIF and other formats with a practical workflow that reduces file size without unnecessary visual loss.

30 August 20264 min
TutorialBest practicesBeginner

Create your first workflow in the Bethemesh Workspace

Mastering the Workspace and pipelines

Move from a single tool to a multi-step workflow, test intermediate results and save a reusable pipeline in the Bethemesh Workspace.

30 August 20263 min
GuideBest practicesBeginner

PDF: understand the format and manage documents properly

Mastering PDF files

Understand how PDF files are structured, the difference between native and scanned PDFs, and the right operations for merging, reorganizing, converting or completing documents.

29 August 20263 min
GuideBest practicesBeginner

Extract, reorder or rotate pages in a PDF

Mastering PDF files

Understand the difference between extracting, reordering and rotating PDF pages, and choose the right operation without unnecessary conversion.

29 August 20261 min
GuideBest practicesBeginner

Convert OGG to MP3, WAV or FLAC

Choose the right output when converting an OGG file to MP3, WAV or FLAC locally in your browser.

29 August 20261 min
GuideBest practicesBeginner

Convert a PDF to images or images to PDF

Mastering PDF files

Learn what changes when PDF pages are rasterized, how resolution and image format affect quality, and when to assemble images into a PDF.

29 August 20262 min
GuideBest practicesBeginner

Merge audio files in different formats

Master audio processing

Combine MP3, WAV, FLAC or OGG sources into one audio file and organize the operation as a multi-file pipeline.

29 August 20261 min
GuideBest practicesBeginner

How to add an image, logo or stamp to a PDF

Mastering PDF files

Add a visual element to a PDF while choosing the right page, placement, dimensions and source image quality.

29 August 20262 min
GuideBest practicesBeginner

Add a signature to a PDF: what you need to know

Mastering PDF files

Understand how to place the visual appearance of a handwritten signature in a PDF and why this is not the same as a cryptographic electronic signature.

29 August 20262 min
GuideBest practicesBeginner

Passwords: generation, strength and useful policies

Secure a website

Understand why length and uniqueness matter, how password managers, MFA and passkeys complement passwords, and how servers should store them.

29 August 20262 min
GuideBest practicesBeginner

Split a CSV or Excel table into smaller files

Mastering data and tables

Discover when to split a large table by row count or by a column value, and how to preserve a useful structure in every output file.

29 August 20261 min
GuideBest practicesIntermediate

Build a reproducible data-preparation workflow

Mastering data and tables

Put cleaning, validation, filtering, merging, comparison and conversion in a sensible order, and learn when a reusable pipeline is better than isolated tools.

29 August 20262 min
BiographyComputing historyBeginner

Ken Thompson: from Unix to Go, simplicity as a method

Programming languages

Discover how Ken Thompson connected Unix, the B language, and Go through the same pursuit of simplicity, efficiency, and composable tools.

24 August 20267 min
BiographyComputing historyBeginner

Alan Kay: Smalltalk and the computer as a personal medium

Programming languages

Learn how Alan Kay connected object-oriented programming, Smalltalk, the Dynabook, and graphical interfaces to make the computer a medium anyone could shape.

24 August 20267 min
BiographyComputing historyBeginner

Yukihiro Matsumoto: Ruby and programmer happiness

Programming languages

Learn how Yukihiro Matsumoto designed Ruby as an expressive object-oriented language and guided its collective evolution before and after Ruby on Rails.

24 August 20267 min
BiographyComputing historyBeginner

Guido van Rossum: creating Python to make code readable

Programming languages

Discover how Guido van Rossum built Python from lessons learned with ABC, guided its evolution, and helped a personal language become a community project.

17 August 20268 min
BiographyComputing historyBeginner

James Gosling: the engineer behind Java

Programming languages

How James Gosling and Sun's Green team designed Java: from Oak and virtual machines to portability and the language's lasting legacy.

17 August 20266 min
HistoryComputing historyBeginner

Java: write once, run anywhere

Programming languages

From Project Green to OpenJDK, discover how Java built portability around bytecode, the JVM, and a long-lived ecosystem.

17 August 20269 min
HistoryComputing historyBeginner

JavaScript: the language that made the Web interactive

Programming languages

From Netscape’s prototype to ECMAScript, Ajax, Node.js, and TypeScript: how JavaScript became the Web’s universal programming platform.

17 August 20267 min
HistoryComputing historyBeginner

C++: from C with Classes to modern C++

Programming languages

From C with Classes to modern standards, discover how C++ has balanced abstraction, generic programming, compatibility, and performance control.

10 August 20269 min
BiographyComputing historyBeginner

Grace Hopper: from early compilers to COBOL

Programming languages

Discover how Grace Hopper helped transform programming by making computers translate readable instructions into machine operations.

3 August 20266 min
BiographyComputing historyBeginner

Ada Lovelace: the visionary who imagined computer programming

Pioneers of computing

Explore Ada Lovelace's life, her collaboration with [Charles Babbage](/en/resources/charles-babbage-father-computing), her Bernoulli numbers algorithm, and the legacy of the woman often described as the first computer programmer.

31 July 20267 min
BiographyComputing historyBeginner

Alan Turing: the mathematician who gave computation a form

Pioneers of computing

Explore Alan Turing’s work on computability, his role at Bletchley Park, his computer designs and his foundational contribution to artificial intelligence.

31 July 202615 min
GuideBest practicesIntermediate

Save time with favorites and templates

Mastering the Workspace and pipelines

Organize your recipes so frequent pipelines are easy to find and reliable variants are quick to create.

27 July 20262 min
ReferenceConcepts and technologiesIntermediate

Modules, resources, and compatibility

Mastering the Workspace and pipelines

Understand why some modules appear or remain unavailable depending on the pipeline's data type.

27 July 20262 min
ReferenceConcepts and technologiesBeginner

Why Bethemesh is Local First

Learn what local processing means and why your files remain in your browser.

27 July 20264 min
ReferenceConcepts and technologiesBeginner

Understand the Workspace

Mastering the Workspace and pipelines

Learn how to combine several modules into a linear, readable, and reusable workflow.

27 July 20262 min
GuideConcepts and technologiesBeginner

Workspace: A new way to transform your data

Mastering the Workspace and pipelines

Discover how the Bethemesh Workspace lets you chain multiple operations, build visual workflows, and reuse your pipelines.

27 July 20263 min
TutorialBest practicesIntermediate

Export and import your pipelines

Back up your configuration to a JSON file and restore it in another browser.

27 July 20262 min
GuideConcepts and technologiesBeginner

Create your first pipeline

Mastering the Workspace and pipelines

Learn how to build your first pipeline in Bethemesh to automate repetitive tasks and reuse your workflows with just a few clicks.

27 July 20263 min
GuideConcepts and technologiesBeginner

Reuse a pipeline

Mastering the Workspace and pipelines

Learn how to reuse your Bethemesh pipelines efficiently to save time and standardize your workflows.

27 July 20262 min
GuideConcepts and technologiesBeginner

First synchronization

Learn how to synchronize your pipelines across multiple devices while keeping full control over your data.

27 July 20262 min
GuideConcepts and technologiesIntermediate

Resolve a synchronization conflict

Understand why synchronization conflicts occur and learn how to resolve them without losing your work.

27 July 20262 min