explore VS Zulip

GitHub: Many researchers and organizations share datasets on GitHub repositories. You can search for repositories with datasets using specific keywords. GitHub

There isn't a lot going on there, but I like the way he added the little language and tech-stack icons to his GitHub profile using the images served by the GitHub Explore page as well.

Checking the GitHub explore page for fun projects and inspiration

Uh? How is this AI thingie different from Github Explore?

https://github.com/explore

What is the real URL for Github Feed?

The Before I Die Code project’s front end is built with React, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS, and it’s currently deployed on Vercel. However, the technology will change with the deployment as I am planning on applying for this open-source project to be featured on the GitHub explore page. For this, the project will need to be using GitHub pages.

New users finding a project is much more likely on GitHub. I'm not necessarily talking about search. I would expect that experience to be about the same on both, though generally, I see a lot more empty projects showing up in results on GitLab for some reason, at least for things I've searched for there. Github seems to do reasonably well with search ranking. I'm more concerned about the poor experience with https://gitlab.com/explore compared to https://github.com/explore where people are going to be discovering new libraries when they don't know what they are looking for and are either browsing topically or just browsing for fun and learning. GitLab seems to do particularly poorly in their curation and selection of what they show you. GitHub on the other hand, has connected me with countless extremely high quality projects through this feature. Finally, the discoverability advantage of GitHub over gitlab is also simply because more people use GitHub. You don't need to primarily use GitHub to use it to point to GitLab If you want to work there, but you're certainly going to have more users finding your project if you have presence on GitHub.

You can also star projects you find interesting and github will use that for the EXPLORE tab to show you other cool projects.

Subscribe to atom/rss feed of https://github.com/explore (you prolly want to have a gihub account) or https://github.com/trending and be sure to at least 'follow' any projects that may interest you. No need to install everything.

Otherwise search for "good first issue" or similar, there are some sites that curate them. Or see GitHub Explore

Zulip — Real-time chat with a unique email-like threading model. The free plan includes 10,000 messages of search history and File storage up to 5 GB. also, it provides a self-hostable open-source version.

(1) Zulip Chat - https://zulip.com/ - seems to be reasonably popular, but more people should know about it

I’ve been using it for over 5 years now [1], and it’s as good as ever. It’s way faster than any other chat app I’ve used. It has a good UI and conversation model. It has a simple and functional API that lets me curl threads and write blog posts based on them.

(only problem is that I Ctrl-+ in my browser to make the font bigger – I think it’s too dense for most people)

(2) re2c regex to state machine compiler - https://re2c.org

A gem from the 90’s, which people have done a great job maintaining and improving (getting Go and Rust target support in the last few years). I started using it in 2016, and used for a new program a few months ago. I came to the conclusion that it should have been built into C, because C has shitty string processing – and Ken Thompson both invented C AND brought regular languages to computing !!

In comparison, treesitter lexers are very low level, fiddly, and error prone. I recently saw dozens of ad hoc fixes to the tree-sitter-bash lexer, which is unsurprising if you look at the structure of the code (manually crawling through backslashes and braces in C).

https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter-bash/blob/master/...

These fixes are definitely appreciated, but I think it indicates a problem with the model itself.

(based on https://lobste.rs/s/endspx/software_you_are_thankful_for#c_y...)

[1] https://www.oilshell.org/blog/2018/04/26.html

A few more truly in the vibe of open source projects not advertising their hosting providers: https://plane.so/ , https://element.io/ , https://www.loomio.com/ , https://zulip.com/ , and it keeps going... Very few open source projects, in the FOSS sense, are advertising their hosting provider.

I was so excited to see this happen!

I'm not a customer of yours, but your blog posts inspired me a lot. Your journey through quitting caffeine is a great and heartening read.

I've got two things to say;

1) Will you consider source-availabling the web portal (app.keygen.sh) too? Some enterprises could use it for easy management/support for custoner's licenses. Although now that I think about it, it could also discourage custom, more suitable implementations for each use-case... I'm torn on this one. I would like to see it available on GitHub too just out of curiosity too. It's very beautiful.

2) For a team + customers' chat, I cannot recommend Zulip enough. It's a joy to use and has the most innovative chat system I've ever seen. https://zulip.com

I hope your business keeps prospering!

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At Zulip, we’re out to build the world’s best collaboration platform, and we’re committed to keeping it 100% open source. Zulip is the only modern team chat app that is designed for both live and asynchronous conversations. Our product serves as the communication hub for businesses, open-source projects, educators and communities around the world.

We're building the next generation of Zulip's mobile apps in Flutter. We're looking for a senior engineer with Flutter experience to join our small core team and help define the future of team chat. Our Flutter prototype is just a few months old, so this is a greenfield opportunity to help shape the app's architecture from early on.

For full details, check out https://zulip.com/jobs/. Apply at [email protected].

Anyways, I'm an internet stranger, not a social media expert. So let me know what you all think. And if we make a discord or zulip or something to make this a reality, let me know and I'd love to help any way I can.