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[Br @substrate_dev]

@HowToAI_ When is that filter coming @elonmusk

[Ryan Fleury @rfleury]

@unclebobmartin @samhogan …well right, what makes you think he was talking about you?

[Br @substrate_dev]

@athenaeumbc Once you understand what this map is of, you will understand why it isn't discussed

[Br @substrate_dev]

@MikeMumbelz @simonvieira @LeadingReport There is a big difference between sweeping under the rag and taking out the trash

Is your trash just "swept under the rug" because it still exists somewhere, or is your house clean

[Br @substrate_dev]

@ralbabustamante @LeadingReport Become?

[Br @substrate_dev]

@DarioFleshlight @_opcode What an incredibly embittered faggot you are

[Br @substrate_dev]

@_Samuel_1932 @kouzu Based

[Br @substrate_dev]

@DAK114514 @10_X_eng @OldHollowTree New England clam chowder is excellent, don't listen to haters. Also excellent lobster and other seafood

[Sander 🇳🇴 @SanderSkjegstad]

Canva bought Affinity. You can no longer purchase the normal fully-featured subscription-free Affinity programs.

[Charlie Malmqvist @CharlieMQV]

First Nowgrep release will be a closed beta where I will hand out a limited number of keys.

I need to do a lot of testing, bug fixing and implement more UX features before I can confidently do a full release.

If you're interested in being part of the closed beta, then please contact me anywhere.

Full release date is undecided but expect something Q1 2026.

I will also be in dire need of funding to keep doing this. If you want to support me, I added a ZEC wallet code on my website. I might do pre-orders later also.

[Charlie Malmqvist @CharlieMQV]

Ripgrep is slow.

Nowgrep is fast, because I bypass the Windows slop and go straight to NTFS.

Here's Ripgrep vs. Nowgrep searching through 300k files on a drive with 2M+.

Nowgrep is written from scratch in C99.

No borrow checker.

[n @cookednick]

Windows users: Try resizing a Chrome window quickly. Or Steam. Any major app. They get this wrong.

I'm not the first person to solve this problem, but I might be the first to publish a minimal, well-documented example of how it's done.

GitHub link (and .exe) in replies.

[Br @substrate_dev]

@SanderSkjegstad Windows Update is more of a suppository, really

[Br @substrate_dev]

@rfleury Problem is *you* have to design the operating system or the command palette will suck

[Charlie Malmqvist @CharlieMQV]

Existing search tools on Windows suck. Even with an SSD, it’s painfully slow.

So I built a prototype of Nowgrep.

It bypasses most of the slow Windows nonsense, and just parses the raw NTFS.

On an SSD, this ends up faster than ripgrep, even on a cached run (Nowgrep bypasses most Software caching).

Demo: Filtering 2 million and searching ~270K files under C:/ for the substring "Hello".

I have many ideas to make these an even smoother experience. Let me know if this is interesting, and I might pursue it further to make a shippable product with good UX.

[Br @substrate_dev]

@TheGingerBill Seek Jesus

[Sander 🇳🇴 @SanderSkjegstad]

We just wrapped up @BetterSoftwareC. The gratitude I feel is indescribable. The talks were all incredible, the people were wonderful, the food was amazing, and everyone keeps telling one another how happy we are to have met and become friends, and that we're still processing things days later. BSC 2025 was nothing but miracle, after miracle, after miracle. Life-changing for many of us. Certainly for me.

A thousand thanks to everyone who trusted us with traveling out to the middle of nowhere in rural Sweden to go to a brand new conference, with brand new organizers that have never done anything like this before. Somehow it all came together perfectly despite, and clearly the Gods were with us for this.

Surreal to think so many people I once only considered heroes, I now also consider friends.

The Muses are with me, and I feel more ready to create than I have in years. I know many others feel the same. This is despite barely having slept AT ALL over the last week! @vkrajacic said it best: "sleeping felt like a waste of time".

Every single day was packed full of work, play, programming, discussion, swimming, dining, jokes, laughter, and learning. Yet, somehow, I still feel like I could have done 5x more things in that time with all the fantastic company we had.

Before we started the livestream on the first day, I asked my friends and fellow organizers @SamHSmith2 and @CharlieMQV to hold my hands in prayer. I don't remember it exactly, but it was something like: "Lord, please grant us grace and skill in this endeavor as we try to make proud those who walked before us to make all this possible, and help us bring a better world into existence."

I feel that prayer was more than answered. We'll be publishing the talks for the people to enjoy very soon, and we hope to reinvigorate the software world more broadly, much like we have been reinvigorated ourselves.

I'm relatively new to this realm of great programmers, and I feel so warmly welcomed up onto the shoulders of the giants that walked before us. I hope we have done them proud in helping amplify and bolster their signal for the future kids who once again will come after us, and need to hear what they have to say.

I once thought I was too stupid to do proper programming, but a few years ago,@cmuratori and the many, many people he has inspired over the years showed me this is not true. It can all actually be quite simple, once you understand. These people have since become my closest friends, and completely changed my life.

I cannot in words fully express how grateful I am to have been part of this, and how much I love you all.

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

[Br @substrate_dev]

@bloodl1ke @TheGingerBill @BetterSoftwareC *One of* his talks, yes

[Raphael Luba @LubaRaphael]

Andrew is casually dropping „Andrew‘s Hacker‘s Delight“ plus the equivalent of a full data structure paper without even blinking 🤯