As my disks tend to be quite messy with time, I had to devise ways to reclaim space, which means both spotting big directories and files, and to deal with the thousands of duplicates you can't delete one per one.
Here's my toolbox for cleaning my disks on linux in 3 major steps:
Glassbench is a Rust micro-benchmark harness. It uses a SQLite database to store bench measurements.
I wanted to give it the option to open an interactive data viewer and grapher, with ability to search the history.
An usual web based solution for that is to run a simple web server.
But Glassbench is executed by cargo and immediately quits and I didn't want it to leave behind anything to clean, especially not daemons.
Besides, when you open a single HTML local file, it can't query additional resources, due to browser's security protections.
So I decided to make it a single temporary html page opened in the user's browser.
Twenty years ago, most of us thought TUI applications were going to disappear.
TUI were just a vestige of low capabilities computers.
There was no reason for TUI not to die with the rise of the personal computer.
This didn't happen. We still love to use TUI applications.
8 months ago, but it feels like years ago, somebody shared a link to broot on Hacker News. There was some very kind messages and broot gained a few users. But I had more in my TODO list.
A lot was done since.
At first sight, broot didn't change much:
It looks the same and what could be done then can still be done the same way, 500 commits and 60 releases later.