Show HN: Ts-chef – CyberChef-style tools and visual pipelines for VS Code

Category: devtools

Tags: vscode-extension, data-transformation, security-tooling, visual-programming, encoding

Score: 6.5/10 (Innovation: 5, Technical: 7, Documentation: 8, Utility: 6)

ts-chef is a VS Code extension that brings CyberChef-style data transformation operations, visual pipeline editing, and security-oriented analysis (e.g., pattern scanning, static malware triage, entropy heatmaps) directly into the editor. It offers 479 operations, saved and bundled recipes, hover-based decoding, and DAG-based pipelines, making it a powerful workbench for developers and analysts who frequently inspect or transform encoded data.

Target audience: backend developers, security analysts, devops, data engineers

Repository: https://github.com/MichaelWeissDEV/ts-chef · TypeScript · NOASSERTION · 7 stars

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