A couple of months back I was looking for a fun quick project and also was having space issues on my Mac.

So github copilot and I wrote a little disk usage exploration tool in rust with very few dependencies.

It's called "syz" and I pronounce it "size" since it's all about exploring disk usage and figuring out what to trim.

Someone I respect started using it and reached out saying he liked it so I figured I'd dust it off and share it here!

After `cargo install syz`, use the `syz` command to enter the interactive cli starting at the current directory. Then use arrow keys to navigate directories and compare their recursive sizes.

Nice and minimal. How does scanning speed compare to dust or ncdu on large trees? The "hide largest item to compare smaller ones" interaction is clever, haven't seen that in other du tools.

If you want feature ideas, here are some (Linux-focused) I vibe-coded into my ncdu fork:

  d — send the selected item to trash (via gio trash)
  D — delete the selected item directly (was d upstream)
  e — open the selected item with $EDITOR
  f — open the selected item with open(1), falling back to xdg-open
  y — copy the selected item's path to the clipboard (via wl-copy, xclip, or xsel)
  i — item info panel now shows a file(1) description in the Type row
  I — open a scrollable mediainfo pager for the selected file (j/k, PgUp/PgDn to scroll; q or I to close)