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Grailbox
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Grailbox is a personal blog at grailbox.com about programming and writing. Since 2011, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “Git GUIs: A Tale of Two Source Models”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Grailbox for grep and ripgrep material, such as restricting ripgrep searches to certain file types on Windows. The only linking comment is a question that cites the post and does not judge its writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Writing about technology, software development, and maybe more.
Most-linked posts?
- Git GUIs: A Tale of Two Source Models2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-07-23
What Hacker News says?
Somewhat germane to the ripgrep topic, what's the reasoning behind failing to support simple wildcard searches? I've been playing with rg.exe under Windows for a few minutes now, encouraged by this thread, but have run into a common problem: https://www.grailbox.com/2018/08/restricting-ripgrep-to-cert... Why don't most grep utilities just do the obvious right thing and support searches on .c* or .h or .txt or whatev…
Comment linking /2018/08/restricting-ripgrep-to-certain-file-types/
on “If you use GNU grep on text files, use the -a (--text) option”Submitted The Linux Developer Desktop 2020 as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Git GUIs: A Tale of Two Source Models as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Flipping a Rusty Coin as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Making “java -v”, “java –version”, and “java version” Work as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Git GUIs: A Tale of Two Source Models as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Two Things I Learned About Vim from an Emacs User as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Internet Is Too Small to Be Snarky as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Great Color Theme for Xcode4 - VividChalk as a story · 1 points
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