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2026-03-19 07:10
Never Write a .gitignore by Hand Again — Build an Auto-Detecting Generator CLI
Every developer has been there. You spin up a new project, write some code, run git status, and suddenly you're staring at a wall of node_modules/, __pycache__/, .DS_Store, and build artifacts. So you open a browser, search for "gitignore template for Node," copy-paste it into a file, realize you also need Python rules because your project has a scripts folder, search again, merge the two by hand,...