Tom Hudson

Tom Hudson is a developer known for creating focused, command-line utilities that streamline everyday tasks for DevOps and security professionals. His small catalog centers on gron, a lightweight open-source tool that transforms JSON into discrete assignment statements, turning nested structures into flat, grep-friendly lines. Originally released on GitHub, gron is used by incident responders who need to filter large API payloads, by testers who want to diff changing endpoints, and by engineers who pipe logs through awk or sed without losing context. Because the output is valid JavaScript, it can be edited, re-diffed, and even fed back into a companion ungron function to reconstruct original JSON, making the utility equally handy for quick audits and automation scripts. The program runs on Windows, macOS, and Linux, installs as a single static binary, and integrates naturally with PowerShell or WSL workflows. Hudson keeps the project actively maintained, accepting community pull requests that preserve the tool’s minimalist philosophy. All of Tom Hudson’s software, including gron, is available for free on get.nero.com, where downloads are delivered through trusted Windows package sources such as winget, always providing the latest release and allowing users to install multiple utilities in a single batch operation.