In this article, Duncan Lock expresses his appreciation and admiration for David Peter, an unsung hero in the open source software world, whose software Lock uses on a daily basis. Lock highlights three projects by Peter that he personally loves and uses frequently: bat, fd, and hyperfine. Bat is a cat clone with syntax highlighting and Git integration, fd is a fast and user-friendly alternative to ‘find’, and hyperfine is a command-line benchmarking tool. Lock also thanks two other people, Zachary Yedidia and Andrew Gallant, for their open source contributions. Overall, the article emphasizes the importance of recognizing and thanking those who work tirelessly to create open source software that powers our digital lives.
https://duncanlock.net/blog/2023/05/28/thanks-david-peter/