Snippets

A searchable catalogue of reusable code snippets and helpers, organised by language and tags, providing developers with a central place to discover practical examples, reusable utilities, and ready-to-use solutions for common programming tasks and everyday development workflows.

Latest Snippets

• Get Latest Tag

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  List version-sorted remote tags that match a dotted triple and print the highest name, skipping peeled annotated-tag objects.

  git

• Get Default Branch

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  Print the default branch name that origin reports as HEAD, trimmed of surrounding whitespace.

  git

• Sort by Several Columns

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  Sort mappings by column names. A leading minus on a name sorts that column descending.

  list

• Pad or Truncate

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  Cut a list to a target length, or extend it with a fill value when it is shorter.

  list

• Email PHP Errors

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  Register an error handler that emails the number, file, line, and message to a chosen address, then stops on anything more severe than a notice.

  email

• Parse CLI Flags

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  Parse help, version, aflag, and b from short or long flags, and return the values keyed by the long name.

  cli

• Check Prerequisites

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  Search an expanded PATH for each command name and return its full path, or raise when any name is missing.

  path

• GitHub Default Branch

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  Parse a GitHub repository URL and return its default branch name from the GitHub API.

  github git

• Netmask to CIDR Prefix

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  Return /N for a dotted IPv4 netmask, and reject masks whose 1-bits are not a contiguous prefix.

  network cidr