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  1. Make a PDF look like it was manually scanned

    Published Mar 17 2023 in Bash

    Learn how to use imagemagick to change sharp PDFs to look like they've been scanned manually.

  2. A userland React hook for managing global state

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    A snippet to share state across React components without a state management library but with a short useGlobalState hook.

  3. How to fail function calls with undefined arguments with a one-liner (sorta)

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    Learn how to throw errors in JavaScript function default parameters by shuffling some code around.

  4. How to animate an element's height with CSS grid

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    Use CSS grid to animate an element's height from 0 to auto.

  5. A native shell alternative to the trash-cli

    Published Nov 06 2022 in Bash

    A native shell function to replace the trash-cli npm package.

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