Ask HN: What's your greatest achievement on GitHub?

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  • Pgen

    Command-line passphrase generator

  • My greatest accomplishments on GitHub are my projects that I actively use myself, and which other people are using as well.

    https://github.com/ctsrc/Pgen

    Pgen is a passphrase generator that uses the EFF wordlists for random passphrases.

    A typical passphrase generated with Pgen looks like:

    oxford antelope veteran thorn dastardly gem tripod upfront avocado femur moisture sacrifice

    Pgen is written in Rust.

    Browse my GitHub profile to see some other projects as well, including my “repotools” project which is very basic but super useful and I invoke the repotools commands many times every day.

    I also have my zshrc on GitHub, the main selling-point of which is the way I have set up my PS1 prompt. It uses different emojis for different machines and adds some extra white space. The emojis are useful because for a long time I sometimes found it difficult to quickly identify which terminal is logged into which host when I have many terminals open some of which are connected to ssh. Having the host name in the print is nice and all but when you have a handful of terminals open or more it’s not very distinct. Coloured emojis take small space and make each host distinct. Vertical spacing between each command invocation makes it more comfortable to read scroll back and more quick to scan.

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