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branchreap: safely reap merged & gone-upstream git branches (zero-dep, npx or pip)

Dev.to · benjamin 🔧 Backend Engineering ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago

branchreap: safely reap merged & gone-upstream git branches (zero-dep, npx or pip)

I ran git branch on a repo I'd been on for a year and counted forty-seven local branches. Maybe six...

Your repo has whitespace problems you can't see — I built a zero-dep CLI that finds and fixes them all

Dev.to · benjamin 🔧 Backend Engineering 2mo ago

Your repo has whitespace problems you can't see — I built a zero-dep CLI that finds and fixes them all

Whitespace problems are the ones you can't see until they bite. A pull request where half the...

dotenv loads your .env — it doesn't check it. So I built a typed validator.

Dev.to · benjamin 🔧 Backend Engineering ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago

dotenv loads your .env — it doesn't check it. So I built a typed validator.

A PORT=8O80 typo (that's a letter O), a DATABASE_URL you forgot to set, a NODE_ENV=prodd — none of...

git branch -d is fine — until the day you delete the wrong one

Dev.to · benjamin 🔧 Backend Engineering ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago

git branch -d is fine — until the day you delete the wrong one

Open any repo you've worked in for a month and run git branch. Half those branches are merged and...