A One-Off Task I Didn't Want to Script

I was working on a minor UI adjustment earlier today that required mapping some physical print dimensions back to CSS pixel values. It was one of those tedious "measure twice, code once" moments where the source documentation was entirely in millimeters.

Usually, for anything repetitive, I’d just open the console and write a quick map function or a one-liner script to handle the conversion. But honestly, for a single set of values, even context-switching to write a script felt like overengineering the problem.

I just needed a quick result to get the padding-top right and move on with the sprint. Instead of bloating my local environment or wasting time on a regex, I just used to get the numbers converted and jumped straight back into the IDE.

It did exactly what was needed for that five-minute gap in the workflow. No setup, no complex toolchain, just a raw result so I could finish the task and close the ticket.

Sometimes the best tool is the one that lets you stop thinking about the tool.