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Thanks, David Peter!

Sun 28th May, 2023 2023-05-28T10:15:05-07:00
by Duncan Lock

2 min read, 330 words.

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updated Sun 28th May, 2023 2023-05-28T10:15:05-07:00

Category: tech

Tags:

  * David Peter
  * gratitude
  * opensource

It's too easy to overlook the countless hours of dedication poured
into the open source software that powers our digital lives. I want
to take a moment to express my appreciation and admiration for one of
the many unsung heroes of my digital world, who's software I use all
the time.

David Peter / sharkdp

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These are the projects of theirs that I love & use the most:

bat

    A cat(1) clone with wings.

Bat is a cat clone with syntax highlighting for loads of languages,
Git integration - and it's written in Rust, so it works on Linux/
Windows/MacOS. It's completely replaced cat for me:

alias cat="bat"

fd

    A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find'

fd is very fast (parallelized directory traversal), flexible, and
intuitive (fd PATTERN instead of find -iname 'PATTERN') utility for
searching files and folders. It supports regular expressions or
glob-based patterns, color-coded file type highlighting, and smart
case-insensitivity. It ignores hidden files and directories and
patterns from .gitignore by default - and also supports parallel
command execution.

This is what tldr fd says:

Recursively find files matching a specific pattern in the
    current directory
    fd "string|regex"
Find files that begin with foo
    fd "^foo"
Find files with a specific extension
    fd --extension txt
Find files in a specific directory
    fd "string|regex" path/to/directory
Include ignored and hidden files in the search
    fd --hidden --no-ignore "string|regex"
Run a command on each search result returned
    fd "string|regex" --exec command`

hyperfine

    A command-line benchmarking tool

I don't always run benchmarks, but when I do I use Hyperfine! This is
much better than running the traditional time <cmd>:

alt

This is what tldr fd says:

Run a basic benchmark, performing at least 10 runs
    hyperfine 'make'
Run a comparative benchmark
    hyperfine 'make target1' 'make target2'
Change minimum number of benchmarking runs
    hyperfine --min-runs 7 'make'
Perform benchmark with warmup
    hyperfine --warmup 5 'make'
Run a command before each benchmark run (to clear caches, etc.)
    hyperfine --prepare 'make clean' 'make'
Run a benchmark where a single parameter changes for each run
    hyperfine --prepare 'make clean' --parameter-scan num_threads 1
    10 'make -j {num_threads}'

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