datasette-ripgrep

Web interface for searching your code using ripgrep, built as a Datasette plugin

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Web interface for searching your code using ripgrep, built as a Datasette plugin

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Observed mentions: 2020-11-28 16:19:18 UTC to 2024-06-03 10:53:40 UTC.

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Period	Start (UTC)	End (exclusive, UTC)	Mentions	Comments
2020	2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	3	3
2021	2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
2022	2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
2023	2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	1
2024	2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	1

What Hacker News says

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simonw·Jun 3, 2024

I'm fascinated by this general problem - I see it as a close relative of the "sandbox" problem, where I want to be able to safely run user-defined untrusted operations. For timeouts, I want to be able to build web application features which are guaranteed to terminate early after eg 2s in a way that resets all resources related to the operation. The best way I've found of doing this so far involves proceses: run the time-bound operation in an entirely separate process and terminate it early if necessary. I do that with "rg" here: https://github.com/simonw/datasette-ripgrep/blob/a40161f6273...

In Ruby's Timeout is dangerous and Thread.raise is terrifying (2015)