Clean URL Parameters with Bookmarklet

What I Learned

When sharing URLs with others, query parameters and fragments can make URLs long and include unnecessary information. I used to manually delete them, but by combining a bookmarklet with Chrome’s search engine feature, I can now clean URLs using only keyboard shortcuts.

Details

Background

While browsing the web, URLs often have parameters like ?utm_source=... or #section. There are many situations where you want to remove these and have a simple URL, but manually deleting them is tedious. By registering a bookmarklet in Chrome’s search engine feature, you can instantly convert to a clean URL using only keyboard operations.

Git Rebase Interactive

What I Learned

Git’s interactive rebase (git rebase -i) is a powerful tool for cleaning up commit history before pushing changes. It allows you to reorder, squash, edit, or remove commits.

Details

Interactive rebase opens an editor with a list of commits and commands:

1git rebase -i HEAD~3

Available commands:

• pick - use commit as-is
• reword - change commit message
• edit - stop for amending
• squash - combine with previous commit
• fixup - like squash but discard commit message
• drop - remove commit

Example workflow: