Going through my history of commands, I think I’m very boring in this regard (only ripgrep and custom tools in the top 100)

I use colordiff a lot, because I have to diff files not in git a lot and hexdump comes up more often than I’d like to.

Maybe the most unusual thing (which I stole somewhere) is a colorize function/alias so I can tail and still highlight stuff without resorting to grep and missing out on the rest:

grep --color=always "$1\|^"

re: Brave, I think there is probably a fundamental conflict between selling Attention Units and ensuring user privacy.

Plus there was the scandal a while back where Brave was hijacking URLs to pocket referrals [1].

There have just been too many Things That Make You Go Hmmmm with Brave for me to trust them. Fair or not, I dismiss the browser as a crypto scam parading as a privacy focused browser.

1: https://decrypt.co/31522/crypto-brave-browser-redirect

Some POSIX operating systems don’t come with Bash out of the box, notably the BSDs. As such Bash is rarely used in them even if it is available. Even MacOS switched its default shell to ZSH.

Generally though I think dropping the dependency on Bash increases compatibility across the board and removes an unneeded dependency. Both of which are always welcome.

One of the comments from that issue:

Just had my first experience with Go, which was nice. The one thing that surprised me a little bit was that bash was required to build. On OpenBSD the standard shell is a hardened ksh. bash is avoided everywhere in base so I had to install that, no biggie, but the question I would phrase in the spirit of portability and reducing dependencies is “why require more if technically all you need is POSIX shell”? I’m wondering if such a change would be desirable, aside from the question who’s going to make it happen.

Also, doesn’t macOS uses zsh by default now? But probably, it’ll be compatible with the bash scripts used here?

Forgive me if this is gauche, but what is wrong with simply using bashisms?

Nothing, bash really makes our lives easier, the extensions are really useful. Some people wants to only use POSIX sh, just because it is a “standard”. Some people just hates bash because it is popular.

You might like the snake game example video that was mentioned in the reddit thread

Do check the links at the end too, for example https://github.com/Wandmalfarbe/pandoc-latex-template might suit better with less fiddling involved compared to my custom scripts.

I collected quite a lot of links about search engines. I think it’s a cool learning project.

Does the search engine has any distinct goals or new features? I just thought of Sonic, which is a light weight copy of Elastic Search and very great :D

• Look into aho-corasick
• Look into boolean query and FSM
• Look into for-each-par-map

This is an excellent market-based solution to this problem. Any git host that has a ToS forbidding this kind of behavior should be reaching out to maintainers now to help them move their repos over.

Hi @pgeorgi, my team at GitHub has just shipped a change to Temporary interaction limits which lets you set them for up to six months.

We had started this work prior to Hacktoberfest and it wasn’t on our minds as we were planning it, but the timing happened to line up very well to release this feature today.

Many of my personal projects are on Sourcehut for several reasons. This is another one to add to the list.

But this affects issues as well.

Not at all. I have a few sub-500 stars projects, and they too get a significant amount of spammy PRs. It’s literally just “Adding a gif to the readme” or something similarly ridiculous.

And I can’t begin to imagine how much crap high-profile project maintainers have to deal with. This post is fully warranted.

I’d love actual contributions. Even if they were just typo fixes, or I had to guide a novice how to improve the code.

But the only “contributions” I’ve got were pure useless garbage. Someone has added “Requires Windows 7 or higher” (with worse spelling) to my Mac app. They didn’t even bother read a single line of the README they were changing.

I thought so too, but take a look at this: https://github.com/search?o=desc&q=is%3Apr+%22improve+docs%22&s=created&type=Issues

Try “amazing project” too. It’s an onslaught. I don’t remember it ever being this bad, but perhaps it was for the more popular repos.

I archived a repo two days back to avoid this spam (and I’m not actively working on it anyway)

https://github.com/learnbyexample/Python_Basics/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aclosed

A comparison of all viable options for technical writing would be cool. Many books are also available on a website for free, but can be bought as paperback for money. You can help much more people this way, but probably make less money.

I just wish I didn’t have to look up the documentation of popen3 every time I had to use it.

Years ago I wrote myself a cheat sheet about Ruby process spawning methods such as popen3, something more useful to me than Ruby’s highly-detailed reference documentation. The cheat sheet doesn’t include Open3.popen3 specifically, though. I found it was overkill for all my use-cases, and I could use system, Open3.capture2, or Open3.capture3 instead.

Here’s a Markdown export of my cheat sheet in case it helps anyone in the future: Ruby – how to run a system command (shell command) and know whether it failed.

I just wish I didn’t have to look up the documentation of popen3 every time I had to use it.

I usually search for stackoverflow (for ex: Ruby capture stderr output from bash script execution) first - I’ve become used to reading documentation, but SO feels better to get a direct solution.

Would ed be able to work within remaining memory here?

I’m using Acorn for MacOS, after seeing a recommendation or two. It’s light, fast and easy (for me) to understand. It was also cheap. I don’t do much - just cropping, copying, pasting, drawing an arrow, etc.

there’s definitely money in it! after trying a bunch of paint alternatives I settled on (not even joking ) renting a $5/mo Windows compute server from Azure for the sole purpose of using MS Paint…

If your goal is to draw over a screenshot or an existing picture, you can use Preview for this. It’s not exactly a “dumb” image editor like MS Paint but it has a couple of additional features like recognizing the shapes you draw by hand. It’s very convenient for annotating screenshots if you use “File > New from Clipboard”. Otherwise you can use Pages or Keynote as a vector graphics editor.

I’m with you on this. Both macOS and Linux need a good Paint clone. The other way I battled for hours with Inkscape to do a basic image manipulation with cutting and pasting, something that would take seconds on Paint. Not because Inkscape is a bad application, but rather because I haven’t learned it and don’t have the need to do it for my daily tasks.

I had the same complaint, and apparently I installed this: https://paintbrush.sourceforge.io/. Although I can’t remember when I last used it.

Yeah, but it has a use if you need to use $0 as backreference. Also, search string starting with - requires special attention due to conflict with option parsing.

$ echo 'a.b*{2}c' | rg -F '.b*{2}' -r ' $0 '
a .b*{2} c

$ echo 'a-b*c' | rg -r '+' -F -- '-b*'
a+c

You could check out sd, which supports String-literal mode (although I haven’t tested if it applies to replacement section as well)

I think the solution you got in the replies is the best work-around for now, but there is an open feature request for this: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/issues/1352

Printing only the matching part is -o, the same flag grep uses for this.

I always use -M 240 to cut off very long lines

You could rg -o '.{0,40}pattern.{0,40}' maybe?

Caveat: I only know what like 4% of rg’s flags do so maybe there’s a more direct way

That’s a usecase I haven’t come across before, but I can see why it would be helpful with minified and other such lengthy inputs. The rg -o '.{0,40}pattern.{0,40}' suggestion in another comment seems the best way for this.

If you are on github, you could also ask the community: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/discussions

You’re welcome.

sponge is a nice suggestion, I’ll add it to the post, thanks.