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I committed a 200 MB file once. Never again — so I built a zero-dep pre-commit guard.

Dev.to · benjamin 2h ago

I committed a 200 MB file once. Never again — so I built a zero-dep pre-commit guard.

Everyone has a version of this story. Mine: I git add -A'd in a hurry, a stray build artifact came...

Two branches, the same migration number, one broken deploy. I built a zero-dep linter for that.

Dev.to · benjamin 3h ago

Two branches, the same migration number, one broken deploy. I built a zero-dep linter for that.

Here's a failure I've now watched happen on three different teams. Two people branch off main. Alice...

A zero-dep CLI that scans your GitHub Actions for the mistakes that actually get repos compromised

Dev.to · benjamin 4h ago

A zero-dep CLI that scans your GitHub Actions for the mistakes that actually get repos compromised

Your CI workflow is the softest target in your repo. It runs automatically, it has a GITHUB_TOKEN...

I built a zero-dep CLI that finds unused dependencies — and is wrong less often than depcheck

Dev.to · benjamin 23h ago

I built a zero-dep CLI that finds unused dependencies — and is wrong less often than depcheck

Open any package.json that's been alive for a year and I'll bet there's a package in there you...

npm audit cries wolf. I built a zero-dep CLI that tells you what to actually fix

Dev.to · benjamin 1d ago

npm audit cries wolf. I built a zero-dep CLI that tells you what to actually fix

You run npm audit. It prints 47 vulnerabilities in angry red. You scroll through two screens of them,...

Every TODO in your codebase is lying about its age. So I built a CLI that blames them.

Dev.to · benjamin 1d ago

Every TODO in your codebase is lying about its age. So I built a CLI that blames them.

Open any codebase older than a year and grep for TODO. You'll get dozens of hits. Now answer me one...

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

Dev.to · benjamin 1d 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...

Your dev stack is 4 terminal tabs. It could be one labeled stream.

Dev.to · benjamin 1d ago

Your dev stack is 4 terminal tabs. It could be one labeled stream.

The daily ritual for anyone running more than one process in local dev: a terminal tab for the web...

I built a zero-dependency CLI that catches i18n drift (and knows your plural rules)

Dev.to · benjamin 1d ago

I built a zero-dependency CLI that catches i18n drift (and knows your plural rules)

You add one string to en.json, ship it, and move on. Three weeks later a French user emails a...

I built a local dead-man's-switch for cron jobs (no server, no signup)

Dev.to · benjamin 2d ago

I built a local dead-man's-switch for cron jobs (no server, no signup)

Cron has a cruel design flaw: it tells you nothing when a job stops running. A job that exits...

I built a 1-file CLI to catch .env drift before it causes production bugs

Dev.to · benjamin 2d ago

I built a 1-file CLI to catch .env drift before it causes production bugs

Almost every developer has fought .env issues. They're silent, annoying, and they only show up after...