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y4u

Building UwView, a fast viewer for gigantic text/log files (tested to ~890M lines / 51 GB). 40+ years in CAD/GIS & engineering software. C / C++ / Python / C# / Swift.

Education

Electronics / radio engineering

Work

Independent developer (40+ yrs). Building UwView & geospatial/surveying apps.

My Fanless Mac Skewed My Benchmark by 54% — Thermal Throttling and Round-Robin Measurement

My Fanless Mac Skewed My Benchmark by 54% — Thermal Throttling and Round-Robin Measurement

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How Many Search Threads Is the Right Number? I Measured 0.89 Billion Lines at 1-16 Threads

How Many Search Threads Is the Right Number? I Measured 0.89 Billion Lines at 1-16 Threads

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Reading Huge Logs by Color — a Highlighter That Doesn't Stutter at 100 Million Lines

Reading Huge Logs by Color — a Highlighter That Doesn't Stutter at 100 Million Lines

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I Rebuilt My 30-Year-Old Text Viewer in C#/Avalonia — It Matched the Industry-Standard klogg. Then I Redesigned It for Today's Hardware.

I Rebuilt My 30-Year-Old Text Viewer in C#/Avalonia — It Matched the Industry-Standard klogg. Then I Redesigned It for Today's Hardware.

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Shelve an Investigated Log at 1/9th the Size, Reopen It Tomorrow Right Where You Left Off

Shelve an Investigated Log at 1/9th the Size, Reopen It Tomorrow Right Where You Left Off

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I Expanded the Entire US OpenStreetMap to a Single 258 GB XML File — 4,509,830,821 Lines, and What Broke

I Expanded the Entire US OpenStreetMap to a Single 258 GB XML File — 4,509,830,821 Lines, and What Broke

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Why We Split Search Results Into a Separate Window — Jump, Save, and Context Lines You Can Use \"While Looking\" With the Filter Popup

Why We Split Search Results Into a Separate Window — Jump, Save, and Context Lines You Can Use \"While Looking\" With the Filter Popup

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How much slower is the browser build, really? — UwView native (UVF) vs WASM, measured on the same file

How much slower is the browser build, really? — UwView native (UVF) vs WASM, measured on the same file

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I Opened 51GB / 890M Lines of Real Data — Then Calculated How Far It Could Theoretically Go (~9.2 Quintillion Lines)

I Opened 51GB / 890M Lines of Real Data — Then Calculated How Far It Could Theoretically Go (~9.2 Quintillion Lines)

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An honest comparison with klogg [v1.1.1]: I list every row I'm losing on, too

An honest comparison with klogg [v1.1.1]: I list every row I'm losing on, too

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I benchmarked my log viewer against klogg at 3/10/48 GB — the second open is the real win

I benchmarked my log viewer against klogg at 3/10/48 GB — the second open is the real win

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