Ripgrep

I used to work for a wonderful company called X-Force Red. It’s a cybersecurity firm that has some of the world’s most talented hackers, and I count myself as supremely lucky to have had the privilege to work there. I spent a lot of time with the Vulnerability Management consultants, and their toys were really top notch. Advanced APIs, daemons, and cron jobs, and data science stuff that I couldn’t begin to tell you about. ...

Ok, this one is nerdy and short, but it’s made my life immeasurably better. There is a utility called fuzzy finder on most unix-based systems. It’s purpose is simple… it fuzzy finds. Okay… but what does that mean? Usually when you search for something, you typically do “string matching”. You search for “photo” and if it’s got the word photo in the name, it’ll show up. Easy enough. But what if the file you want has “Photo” in the name? That capital P is going to throw it off. ...