Fast local file search. Open source. Private by default. Powered by ripgrep.
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Rebuilding old software is humbling.
Half the time I'm impressed by my younger self.
The other half I'm wondering what he was thinking.
One thing 15 years taught me:
Users don't care how clever your architecture is.
They care whether they can find what they're looking for.
Fast.
Everything else is secondary.
A useful engineering rule:
If adding a feature makes the core product worse, it's probably the wrong place for that feature.
That's how we ended up with plugins.
The search engine stays lean.
Additional capabilities stay separate.
Everybody wins.
Most people think file search is solved.
Until they need to find:
- One line in 100,000 files
- A forgotten project
- An old invoice
- A configuration setting
Search is one of those problems that feels trivial...
Right up until it matters.
Open source is about trust.
Your files stay on your machine.
No accounts.
No telemetry.
No subscriptions.
Just software.
Adam Cottrell retweeted
your codebase search is embarrassingly slow 💀
ripgrep (rg) finds any pattern across every file in ~0.3s
faster than grep. smarter than your IDE.
7 steps to set it up 👇
Adam Cottrell retweeted
The “Grep” command is an important command. Learn why:
itsfoss.com/grep-command/
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Adam Cottrell retweeted
Are you familiar with the “Grep” command?
itsfoss.com/grep-command/
The older I get, the more I appreciate boring technology.
SearchMonkey III is built on ripgrep.
Reliable beats clever almost every time.
A surprising amount of software engineering is learning what NOT to build.
You don't need:
• A database
• An indexer
• A background service
• A cloud account
to search your own files.
Sometimes the simplest solution is also the fastest.
There are no ocr limits for Searchmonkey and it runs on Mac
Open source local search + ocr for scanned receipts, letters and invoices.
Searchmonkey.dev
Searchmonkey knows about ripgrep 🤫
You surely know about grep command in Linux 🐧
You might know about ripgrep 😎
Now meet the most powerful of them all: ripgrep-all 👑
itsfoss.com/ripgrep-all/
Searchmonkey is powered by ripgrep and gives you that same power in the UI.
And it's open source.
One tool I genuinely think every developer, engineer, sysadmin, researcher, and terminal-heavy techie should know about:
ripgrep (rg) ⚡
It’s basically a ridiculously fast modern replacement for grep, but once you start using it properly, it becomes hard to go back.
Super useful for:
• searching huge codebases
• finding configs/secrets
• log analysis
• debugging
• searching APIs/endpoints
• navigating projects
• parsing large datasets
• quick terminal workflows
Examples:
rg "TODO"
rg "api_key|token"
rg "localhost:3000"
rg "useEffect"
One of the best parts:
it automatically respects .gitignore, skips unnecessary junk directories, and searches insanely fast even across massive repositories.
Also powers a lot of modern tooling ecosystems behind the scenes:
• Neovim
• Telescope
• VS Code integrations
• fzf workflows
• CLI tooling
• developer search systems
This is honestly one of those tools that quietly upgrades your daily workflow without you realizing it at first.
Project:
github.com/burntsushi/ripgre…
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