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Yorhel
Personal blog · dev.yorhel.nlprogrammingsystems
Yorhel's personal blog at dev.yorhel.nl covers programming and systems. Since 2012, 48 different Hacker News readers have linked it 60 times, most often “Ncdu – NCurses Disk Usage”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-01-10, and you can follow it by feed.
Most-linked posts?
- Ncdu – NCurses Disk Usage21 people · 24 mentions · first linked 2016-01-01
- Ncdu 2: Less hungry and more Ziggy7 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2021-07-24
- NCDU the HTOP for disk usage3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2013-08-25
- /ncdu/jsonfmt3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-03-29
- /ncdu/scr3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2017-02-05
- /yxml2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-01-23
- Multi-threaded Access to an SQLite3 Database2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-02-16
- /ncdu/scr2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-09-10
What Hacker News says?
I use NCDU: https://dev.yorhel.nl/ncdu
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on “Broot – A new way to see and navigate directory trees”Submitted Ncdu 2: Less hungry and more Ziggy as a story · 236 points
HN discussionLots of good entries, I'll add a few that haven't been mentioned yet: - ncdu, to find out which files and folders take up most of the disk space [1] - julia, because scientific programming was never so fun and fast [2] - midnight commander, because a TUI implementing Norton Commander dual-pane view is so useful! [3] - lazarus, because creating multi-platform desktop apps couldn't be simpler [4] - zstandard, its perf…
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on “Software I’m thankful for (2021)”Submitted The Sorry State of Convenient IPC (2014) as a story · 59 points
HN discussionSlightly related utility I discovered to my great delight today: ncdu - "htop for disk space usage" https://dev.yorhel.nl/ncdu
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on “Htop explained”Submitted Ncdu – NCurses Disk Usage as a story · 11 points
HN discussionI quite like this list, there are a number of utilities here that I already use on a daily basis. There are also a few utilities that I like that weren't on this list, or some alternatives to what was shown. Some off the top of my head: - nnn[0] (C) - A terminal file manager, similar to ranger. It allows you to navigate directories, manipulate files, analyze disk usage, and fuzzy open files. - ncdu[1] (C) - ncurses…
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on “An Illustrated Guide to Useful Command Line Tools”Submitted Multi-threaded Access to an SQLite3 Database as a story · 6 points
HN discussionI've been digging ncdu recently, which is basically a du replacement: https://dev.yorhel.nl/ncdu
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on “Ask HN: Best Command-Line Applications?”Submitted Ncdu 2: Less hungry and more Ziggy as a story · 5 points
HN discussionI'd recommend ncdu[1]. It's very fast, has vi-like bindings, and allows you to easily delete items right there. I use it frequently. [1] https://dev.yorhel.nl/ncdu/scr
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on “TUIs”Submitted NCurses Disk Usage as a story · 5 points
HN discussionXML isn’t hard to parse, sure, but you still have to do parsed entities and default attribute values for the (mandatory) “internal DTD subset”, don’t you? If you omit that, then sure, the rest[1] is basically in the ballpark of JSON. But for a full parser you still have to do a full textual macro system so you have to allocate given untrusted input so ... so now you’re basically doing a good chunk of a simple compil…
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on “Plain text, with lines”Submitted Ncdu 2.8 – NCurses Disk Usage as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI recently discovered ncdu ( http://dev.yorhel.nl/ncdu/scr ) as an alternative to du. Quite handy.
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on “Unix Commands I Wish I’d Discovered Years Earlier”Submitted Multi-threaded Access to an SQLite3 Database as a story · 4 points
HN discussionIt's fd, ncdu and sd (sed alternative) for me. https://github.com/chmln/sd https://dev.yorhel.nl/ncdu
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on “A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to ‘find’”Submitted Ncdu 2: Less hungry and more Ziggy (2021) as a story · 3 points
HN discussion> https://dev.yorhel.nl/doc/ncdu2 I wasn't aware that there was a rewrite of ncdu in Zig. That link is a nice read.
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on “Show HN: Dut – a fast Linux disk usage calculator”Submitted ncdu – a disk usage analyzer with an ncurses interface as a story · 3 points
HN discussionTools like rdfind and rmlint breathed new life into my SSD by hardlinking duplicate files after video editing software helpfully duplicated huge videos on import. https://rdfind.pauldreik.se/ https://github.com/sahib/rmlint There are great GUI visualizers for disk space, like WizTree/Baobab; for the command line I've had success with ncdu. https://dev.yorhel.nl/ncdu
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on “Linux utils that you might not know”Submitted NCurses Disk Usage as a story · 3 points
HN discussionhttps://dev.yorhel.nl/ncdu/jsonfmt
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on “Show HN: I wrote a program to convert lines of text into trees”Submitted Show HN: A 6KB, fast and mostly-correct XML parser in C as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThese certainly aren't forgotten, but I like: * `ranger` file manager: https://ranger.github.io/ * `ncdu` for visualising disk usage: https://dev.yorhel.nl/ncdu * `htop` process monitor: https://htop.dev/ I just find them very intuitive, and information-dense while not being overwhelming.
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on “Ask HN: Interesting TUIs (text user interfaces), maybe forgotten ones?”Submitted NCDU the HTOP for disk usage as a story · 3 points
HN discussionA parser for what most people think of as XML can be fairly simple, certainly simpler than a performant or even just error-tolerant parser for HTML. Though Yxml[1] is probably overdoing it, what with its lack of Unicode handling or tree construction, a couple of tens of kilobytes seems like the right order of magnitude to me. Heavier than JSON, but not drastically so, unless you decide you also need three types of s…
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on ““We removed the RSS feed since this technology became obsolete””Submitted Ncdu as a story · 2 points
HN discussionncdu is also a nice (free) alternative and can be installed via Homebrew (brew install ncdu): https://dev.yorhel.nl/ncdu
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on “Omni Group Layoffs”Submitted NCurses Disk Usage as a story · 2 points
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