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Developer & Data Tools

How-to guides for working with JSON, CSV and Base64 data, and for the free developer tools that make it quicker.

What Base64 encoding actually does, why it's used for embedding binary data in text formats, and when it's the wrong tool for the job.

When you actually need to convert between CSV and JSON, and how to do it correctly -- including handling nested data and special characters.

What valid JSON actually requires, the most common syntax errors, and how to format minified or broken JSON back into something readable.