Most of my day-to-day work isn’t about building new features.
It’s about moving things around —
data, snippets, notes — from one place to another.
Most of the time, this works fine.
Until it doesn’t.
This usually shows up when I need to share an intermediate result.
Something that isn’t final, isn’t polished, and isn’t meant to live anywhere long-term.
Copying it directly often causes issues.
Formatting breaks.
Content gets altered by the system receiving it.
There are proper ways to solve this.
I could write a script.
I could adjust the pipeline.
I could add another step to the workflow.
But for something that only needs to exist once, that feels unnecessary.
At that point, I just needed to encode the content so it wouldn’t break during the handoff.
I used a small online encoder (mmtocm.net), passed the result along, and moved on.
The important part wasn’t the tool itself.
It was making sure the task stayed temporary and isolated, so I could get back to actual work.
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