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a subprocess caching utility, available as a command line binary and a Rust library.

5 mentions on Hacker News by 5 people: 1 story, 4 comments · first 2022-02-19 · latest 2026-10-09

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  1. This looks awesome. Thanks for making this. Been using this, for similar cli output catching. https://github.com/dimo414/bkt Wondering what you think about the two, and what are the good reasons to use one vs the other? (Maybe: once is…
    comment by hecomo · 2026-10-09 · in Once: Cache CLI commands
  2. …it with long TTL with eager async refreshes. My guess is that Starship does exactly that. [0]: https://github.com/dimo414/bkt
    comment by xlii · 2026-01-10 · in Oh My Zsh adds bloat
  3. …of transparent compression, either in the README or through simple source code search. I did find https://github.com/dimo414/bkt/issues/62 which mentions swappable backends. The fact that it uses some type of database instead of just the…
  4. I've been using bkt ( https://github.com/dimo414/bkt ) for subprocess caching. It has some nice features, like providing a ttl for cache expiration. In-pipeline memoization looks nice, I'm not sure it supports that
    comment by news_hacker · 2025-10-24 · in Scripts I wrote that I use all the time