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25th April 2018 - Link Blog

JSON Escape Text. I built a tiny tool for turning text into an escaped JSON string—I needed it to help create descriptions and canned SQL queries for adding to Datasette’s metadata.json files.

Posted 25th April 2018 at 4:13 am

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