Tarka Labs - TIL

Cropping a Screenshot Captured with a Chrome Extension

There are many reasons why cropping a screenshot is a valuable feature. You may want to remove unwanted screenshot sections or fit them into a specific format. You can get screenshots through the tabs.captureVisibleTab() method…

Deserializing Objects with Unknown Fields in Rust

Using Large Multi-line Secrets in Github Actions

GitHub Actions makes it easy to automate all your software workflows, now with world-class CI/CD. Build, test, and deploy your code right from GitHub. Make code reviews, branch management, and issue triaging work the way you want.

Function Composition in Ruby

I was going through some functional programming content & I came across a Wikipedia article on Function Composition. I was surprised to learn that Ruby has special operators for function composition. This is the recommended way to compose procs/functions in Ruby 2.6

Fetching a Single File From Git Stash

A lot of times when jumping across branches on your Git repository, you’ll come across…

Removing Accented Characters From Strings in Rails

If you have a huge list of text records with accented characters and want to get rid of the accented characters because you want to keep…

Git orphan branches

I was recently working on a project and had a need to change everything in the repository except one folder. Enter orphan branches.

Quickly find the docker image startup command

If you quickly want to see what command any docker image actually runs when you start it, there is an easy way

docker history --no-trunc <image-name>

This will list all the contents of its Dockerfile along with layers information