2026-09

Comparison

[AI Grades S–C] I Fed 10 of My Own Benchmark Posts to Gemini and ChatGPT — They Both Drew the Same Map, by File Size

So far I have been the one asking AIs about 50 GB logs. This time I reversed it: I handed Gemini and ChatGPT a…
2026.09.06
Comparison
Comparison

Losing at 3 GB, a Cliff at 50 GB — EmEditor vs UwView Pro + Edit Upgrade on a 16 GB-RAM Laptop

Let me lead with the loss. On raw replace speed, EmEditor was 7.0× faster than my product. EmEditor is the cla…
2026.09.06
Comparison
Comparison

“Opens a Huge Log in Your Browser” Means Three Different Things — Checked at 47 GB

It exists. When I asked four AIs how to investigate a 50 GB log, Copilot recommended a tool I had never heard…
2026.09.06
Comparison
Technical Guide

“I Ordered It and It Never Arrived” — Four Support-Desk Log Investigations

One order number. That's the whole lead. The ticket says nothing else. The record of what happened is scattere…
2026.09.06
Technical Guide
Comparison

Is ripgrep Really the Fastest on a 51 GB Single File? — rg vs grep vs UwView Pro, Measured

rg lost to grep. You've been handed a 51 GB log, and your fingers type rg — the same reflex you use on a repos…
2026.09.05
Comparison
Technical Guide

Making the On-Call Night Lighter — Four Things You Set Up for Your 2 A.M. Self

2:14 a.m. Ninth reopen. The same 50 GB log, opened nine times tonight already. Why does investigation turn int…
2026.09.04
Technical Guide
Technical Guide

Look at It Before You Feed It to jq — Four Times You Need the Raw Bytes

jq ate 12 GB and died. The input was an 8 GB JSON log. jq is supposed to stream records one at a time, so why…
2026.09.03
Technical Guide
Technical Guide

Eight Minutes for zgrep, Every Single Time — Keeping Logs Compressed and Still Searchable

[Update, 16 October 2026] Speed today — compressed logs can now be searched as-is, even in the free app The uv…
2026.09.02
Technical Guide
Technical Guide

Chasing an Outage by the Clock — Four Ways to Use Timestamps as Evidence

All you have is 14:07. That's the whole report. No error message, no request ID, no reproduction steps. A few…
2026.09.01
Technical Guide