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Tooling

Editors, local environments, browsers and the small scripts that save an hour a week.

ToolingOpening Your Local Dev Site on a Phone on the Same Network

Typing localhost into a mobile browser fails instantly because the phone queries its own internal loopback interface rather than the workstation hosting the application.

Tooling currently holds 8 pages. They are dated 2007 to 2026. The rule for this section is narrow: a page belongs here if someone could act on it the same afternoon they read it.

The desk checks what these pages claim against the documentation they refer to. That is the whole of the method: no benchmark suite, no scoring, no invented averages. It does not carry product rankings, paid placements or league tables. Pages published on behalf of third parties are labelled and kept in Partner content.

The list below is in date order, newest first, and it is the whole section — there is no second page holding the rest back and no editor’s pick sitting above it. Where a page has been corrected since it went up, the correction is noted on the page itself rather than used as a reason to move it back to the top. The most recent of them is Opening Your Local Dev Site on a Phone on the Same Network, published 2026-09-29.

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