Guides & Tutorials

Practical, no-fluff how-tos on JSON, developer tools, SEO, and productivity — from the people who build the tools.

What Is JSON Formatting? A Plain-English Guide (With Examples)
If you have ever opened an API response and been greeted by a single endless line of curly braces, you already understand the problem JSON formatting solves.
6 min readJSON, Web Development, Developer Tools
How to Validate JSON (and Fix the 7 Most Common Errors)
Invalid JSON breaks APIs, configs, and builds. Here is how to validate JSON in seconds and fix the seven errors that cause almost every failure.
7 min readJSON, Web Development, Developer Tools
How to Fix Broken JSON (Trailing Commas, Single Quotes, Python Dicts & More)
Most "invalid JSON" comes from a handful of fixable patterns — including pasting a Python dict. Here is how to repair each one automatically.
7 min readJSON, Web Development, Developer Tools