TIL you can redirect a command output directly to the clipboard on Mac using pbcopy. No need to fumble with text selection to copy it.

date now | date format '%Y-%M-%d' | pbcopy

Source: https://stackoverflow.com/a/1753127

TIL you can use brew autoremove to prune unused dependencies installed by Homebrew.

1# dry run to preview what will be removed
2brew autoremove --dry-run
3
4# removes the unused dependencies
5brew autoremove

TIL that curl supports a --json flag to send and accept JSON responses since version 7.82.0, which means that the following requests,

1curl --data '{"name": "morpheus"}' \
2--header "Content-Type: application/json" \
3--header "Accept: application/json" \
4--request POST https://example.com/api/users
5
6curl -d '{"name": "morpheus"}' \
7-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
8-H "Accept: application/json" \
9-X POST https://example.com/api/users

can be further shortened as follows:

1curl --json '{"name": "morpheus"}' \
2-X POST https://example.com/api/users

Source: https://glaforge.dev/posts/2023/03/22/curl-s-json-flag/

Tiny design detail: nested border radii look really funky if they’re the same. To maintain the same curvature, the outer radius = inner radius + padding.

• Andy Bell wrote about this technique using CSS properties: https://set.studio/relative-rounded-corners/
• Adam Argyle discussed an alternative approach using overflow-clip-margin: https://nerdy.dev/perfect-nested-radius-with-overflow-clip-margin

TIL that + sets a force flag on a Git refspec. That means I can force push to a branch with any of the following commands:

1git push --force origin main
2git push -f origin main
3git push origin +main

https://stackoverflow.com/a/69745212

Unlighthouse by Harlan Wilton is an invaluable tool to scan your entire site with Lighthouse. It runs as a command line tool and displays results through a beautiful web interface. And it just works with minimal configuration. I’ve been using it to audit naiyer.dev and couldn’t recommend it enough.

If you accumulate a lot of local Git branches over time, you can get rid of them in one go with the following Nushell script:

(git branch | lines | where ($it !~ '^\*') | each {|br| git branch -D ($br | str trim)} | str trim)