Huge Files, No Waiting Series' Articles

y4u

Jul 24

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

#showdev #performance #dotnet #devops

4 min read

y4u

Jul 27

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

#showdev #performance #opensource #uwview

8 min read

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

y4u

Jul 27

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

#showdev #webassembly #browser #uwview

3 min read

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

y4u

Jul 27

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

#showdev #avalonia #uwview #syslog

4 min read

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

y4u

Aug 1

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

5 min read

y4u

Aug 5

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

4 min read

y4u

Aug 8

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.

6 min read

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

y4u

Aug 11

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

4 min read

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

y4u

Aug 14

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

3 min read

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

y4u

Aug 14

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

#hardware #performance #programming

4 min read

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y4u

Aug 24

"File Too Large to Open" — Investigating a 50 GB Log Without Splitting It

#devops #debugging #productivity #tools

2 min read

y4u

Aug 24

You Found the ERROR. The Cause Is in the Lines Before It

#debugging #devops #logging #tools

3 min read

y4u

Aug 24

I Benchmarked My Free Viewer Against EmEditor and klogg — Honestly

#showdev #benchmark #opensource #performance

2 min read

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y4u

Aug 29

How to Open a 50GB Log File — and Reopen It in 0.05 Seconds. A klogg Alternative, Benchmarked

#showdev #performance #productivity #linux

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7 min read

y4u

Aug 30

This File Is Too Large to Open — Four Go-To Tools That Sink Under Huge Files, and What Comes Next

#showdev #vscode #productivity #devops

8 min read

y4u

Aug 30

The Day printf Debugging Hit 10GB — Four Ways to Live With Development Logs

#showdev #debugging #programming #productivity

10 min read

y4u

Aug 31

You Found the ERROR. You Still Can't Find the Cause — Four Ways to Trace Causality in Logs

#showdev #debugging #devops #logging

9 min read

y4u

Sep 1

Where Finished Logs Go — Deciding Between Delete, Keep, and Compress

#showdev #devops #logging #productivity

9 min read

y4u

Sep 4

Is ripgrep Really the Fastest on a 51 GB Single File? I Measured rg, grep, and My Own Viewer

#showdev #performance #cli #rust

2 min read

y4u

Sep 5

Chasing an Outage by the Clock — Four Ways to Use Timestamps as Evidence

#devops #logging #sre #debugging

14 min read

y4u

Sep 5

Eight Minutes for zgrep, Every Single Time — Keeping Logs Compressed and Still Searchable

#showdev #devops #logging #storage

12 min read

y4u

Sep 5

Look at It Before You Feed It to jq — Four Times You Need the Raw Bytes

#logging #json #dataengineering #devops

11 min read

y4u

Sep 5

"Opens a Huge Log in Your Browser" Means Three Different Things

#showdev #webassembly #performance #browser

3 min read

y4u

Sep 6

Making the On-Call Night Lighter — Four Things You Set Up for Your 2 A.M. Self

#devops #sre #oncall #logging

11 min read

y4u

Sep 6

EUC-JP, UTF-16, and a Suspicion of EBCDIC — Reading Legacy Encodings in 2026

#logging #encoding #unicode #devops

12 min read

y4u

Sep 6

"I Ordered It and It Never Arrived" — Four Support-Desk Log Investigations

#logging #devops #sre #support

13 min read

y4u

Sep 6

EmEditor Beat My Editor 7 at 3 GB. Then We Opened a 50 GB File on a 16 GB Laptop.

#showdev #performance #windows #benchmarking

3 min read

y4u

Sep 6

The Night the Log Wouldn't Read — Four Character-Encoding Traps and How to Tell Them Apart

#showdev #unicode #debugging #logging

9 min read

y4u

Sep 7

[AI Grades S–C] I Fed 10 of My Own Benchmarks to Gemini and ChatGPT: EmEditor at 3 GB, grep for One-Offs, My Tool Past 10 GB

#showdev #ai #performance #productivity

3 min read

y4u

Sep 7

[In Development] grep -v and grep -w, Now in a GUI: NOT Filters and Whole-Word Match for Huge-File Search

#showdev #cli #productivity #tooling

2 min read

y4u

Sep 7

[In Development] grep -v and grep -w, Now in a GUI: NOT Filters and Whole-Word Match for Huge-File Search

#showdev #cli #productivity #tooling

2 min read

y4u

Sep 8

Just Search and Replace: EmEditor, klogg, grep, 010 Editor, UltraEdit at 3/10/48 GB — Windows and Mac, Kept Separate

#showdev #performance #benchmarking #productivity

3 min read

y4u

Sep 8

sort | uniq -c | sort -rn, Now a GUI Button: Ranking 10,967 Hits' Top Values in 22 ms

#showdev #cli #productivity #tooling

2 min read

y4u

Sep 8

Follow-up Tests: What I Learned by Re-testing the "Handles Huge Files" Claim

#showdev #cli #logging #performance

3 min read

y4u

Sep 9

grep, uniq -c and sed in a GUI — and the Parts That Don't Map (a CLI Cheat Sheet)

#showdev #cli #productivity #tooling

3 min read

y4u

Sep 9

258 GB, 4.5 Billion Lines, Five Questions: ripgrep Wins at N=1 and Loses at N=2

#showdev #cli #performance #tooling

6 min read

y4u

Sep 11

Only the Line Number Survived — Four Techniques for Inspecting Huge Data

#logging #devops #dataengineering #productivity

14 min read

y4u

Sep 11

The Traces Are in the Raw Log — Four Views on Lateral Movement, SQLi, and After-the-Fact Investigation

#security #logging #devops #sre

14 min read

y4u

Sep 11

"less Is Enough" — Until It Isn't: Four Limits of Command-Line Craft

#linux #commandline #devops #performance

16 min read

y4u

Sep 14

Logs as Evidence — Four Principles for Preserving, Excerpting, and Proving Integrity

#security #devops #sre #logging

16 min read

y4u

Sep 14

Before You Carry Production Logs Home — Four Points of Friction Between Logs and Your Dev Environment

#devops #cicd #wsl #logging

13 min read

y4u

Sep 14

Ten Thousand Sensors, 1.4 Billion Lines a Day — Four Fields Where Machines Write the Logs

#iot #logging #devops #datascience

14 min read

y4u

Sep 15

Following a Log That Won't Stop Growing — Four Situations Where tail -f Can't Keep Up

#logging #devops #sre #linux

16 min read

y4u

Sep 15

"Please Produce the Logs from Three Years Ago" — Four Ways to Survive an Audit by Design

#audit #security #devops #logging

16 min read

y4u

Sep 15

The Morning the Monthly Batch Died — Four Realities of Running a Data Pipeline

#dataengineering #etl #devops #cli

14 min read

y4u

Sep 16

Picking the One Place to Beat ripgrep — Read 1/9 of the Bytes, Then Hand the Result From the CLI to the GUI

#showdev #ripgrep #cli #performance

9 min read

y4u

Sep 16

I Thought We Lost at 3 GB — Turns Out We'd Won (As Long as the Cache Is Cold)

#showdev #ripgrep #cli #productivity

10 min read

y4u

Sep 18

ripgrep Is 2.9x Faster With no-mmap — Measured Against the Default mmap Read on One 51 GB File, on Three OSes

#showdev #ripgrep #cli #performance

5 min read

y4u

Sep 18

We Lose to klogg on Opening. uvf Wins the Whole Run — Re-measured at 50 GB

#showdev #logging #cli #performance

8 min read