Assorted articles, tools and links

Simple benchmarking

If you need to benchmark something, the fastest way is to use the time shell builtin. Often times you want to run the same command multiple times to account for filesystem cache warmup and eliminate statistical outliers. In those cases comparing time outputs and remembering to preface every command with that command can be time intensive (hehe). Instead of time you can use hyperfine which has much more options and automates much of the boring statistical work.

GitHub - sharkdp/hyperfine: A command-line benchmarking toolGitHub

Better finding

The find command (TODO: write article) is a mess. There's a much more user friendly (and faster) alternative called fd:

GitHub - sharkdp/fd: A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find'GitHub

Fuzzy finder for the command line

Use fzf to:

• find files, fast (e.g. in Vim)

• collate completed commands (e.g. with C-r in your shell)

• procure processes (e.g. fuzzy find the process you want to kill)

• get general git gizmos (e.g. branches, tags)

• ... and more!

GitHub - junegunn/fzf: A command-line fuzzy finderGitHub