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Data and developer guides: JSON, CSV, encoding and formatting

Developers and analysts paste sensitive things into online tools every day: API responses, customer exports, tokens. These guides show how to format, convert and check data with tools that run locally, so the data never touches anyone else's server.

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That long token is readable by anyone, so where you paste it matters. Decode a JWT and read it safely

Split a token into its three parts, read the claims and the exp date, and learn the difference between decoding a token and verifying it.

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Base64 looks like encryption and is not. What it does, why it exists and why your decode fails

Encode text, files and images, decode a string, and learn the 33 percent size cost, the URL-safe variant and the usual reasons a decode goes wrong.

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Your regex works on three examples and fails on the fourth. Here is how to find out why

Read a pattern piece by piece, set the right flags, preview a replacement and check the usual mistakes behind a pattern that does not match.

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The download page prints a long string of letters next to the button. Here is how to check it in a minute

Hash the file, paste the published value and read Match or No match. Then what a match proves, what it cannot, and the same check on the command line.

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Length beats cleverness: how long a password should be, and the arithmetic that proves it

Entropy in plain words, a table of length against character set, passphrases against passwords, and what to do when a site you use is breached.

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Your JSON is one unreadable line, or the parser says "unexpected token at position 412". Find out what is wrong

Paste it, get it indented, and read the line and column of what the parser choked on. Then the seven mistakes behind most invalid JSON.

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Excel mangled your CSV? Convert CSV to Excel, JSON and back without losing zeros, dates or accents

CSV to Excel, Excel to CSV, CSV to JSON and JSON to CSV, plus why zeros vanish, why accents break and what nested JSON becomes in a table.

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