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New comment by gugod in "The 49MB web page"

gugod — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 00:31:58 +0000

Bloated websites like this frustrated me especially when I have to use them from time to time. Oddly to me if they have never noticed donward trend of any engagement metrics, while removing any random section would seem to be helpful already.

New comment by gugod in "Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)"

gugod — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 11:12:42 +0000

I tried a variant or this idea so many years ago after I leaned git and rearranged some of my personal tools as subcommands (like git) of a single executable named "dude,"

It went weird pretty quickly...

New comment by gugod in "App::Rak – 21st century grep / find / ack / ag / rg on steroids"

gugod — Sat, 04 Nov 2023 13:53:45 +0000

Both learning and the ability of tools are gradual though. For doing naive substring search all grep-alike tools works perfectly, and anyone who are willing to spend some effort and learn a bit of tool-specific features can gain a lot more more benefits.

rak is backed by the entirety of raku language and therefore is much easier for some crafting something that's less trivial to generalize in a one-liner. For most of grep-alike tools, their regex engine would be some sort of ceilings of what can be done but for rak, the ceiling is as tall as the raku programming language. That's rak's niche.