snippets

Small, reusable Python & shell utilities I reach for often. Each lives in one file, no dependencies, copy-paste friendly.

Contents

• slugify.py — turn any string into a URL-safe slug
• retry.py — retry a flaky call with exponential backoff
• humanize_bytes.py — human-readable byte sizes (1536 -> '1.5 KiB')
• chunk.py — split an iterable into fixed-size chunks
• timer.py — context manager that prints elapsed wall time
• load_env.py — tiny .env parser into a dict
• parallel_map.py — thread-pooled map for I/O-bound work
• deep_get.py — safe nested lookup by dotted path
• dedupe.py — order-preserving dedupe with optional key
• sh.py — run a command, return stripped stdout
• truncate.py — truncate to n chars on a word boundary
• flatten.py — flatten a nested iterable one level
• memoize.py — cache a function's return values
• debounce.py — delay a call until calls stop firing
• atomic_write.py — crash-safe file write via tmp + rename
• flatten_dict.py — nested dict to dotted keys
• human_duration.py — seconds to '1h 2m 5s'
• clamp.py — clamp a value to [lo, hi]