Everything that uses configuration files should report where they're located

1. httpie

   1 133 35,601 6.6 Python

   🥧 HTTPie CLI — modern, user-friendly command-line HTTP client for the API era. JSON support, colors, sessions, downloads, plugins & more. (by httpie)

   

   Yesterday I was wondering why the self signed root certificate and the certificates I added to my debian installed didn't work with httpie (ssl warning) but did work with curl (and the browsers I added the RootCA to).

   I found the explanation: https://github.com/httpie/httpie/issues/480 httpie doesn't look into /usr/local/share/ca-certificates but apparently it's not httpie's fault, it's the python requests library that doesn't check that folder.

   I don't know what to think of it and who is supposed to fix it. But I am back to curl with my tail between the legs (because I oversold httpie to my coworkers) for now. There's only one place where the bucket stops with curl.

2. InfluxDB

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   InfluxDB – Built for High-Performance Time Series Workloads. InfluxDB 3 OSS is now GA. Transform, enrich, and act on time series data directly in the database. Automate critical tasks and eliminate the need to move data externally. Download now.

   

3. click-extra

   2 2 87 9.7 Python

   🌈 Drop-in replacement for Click to make user-friendly and colorful CLI

   

4. macos-defaults

   3 16 1,328 7.9 HTML

   Incomplete list of macOS `defaults` commands with demos ✨ (by yannbertrand)

   

   macOS has something similar also with defaults [1].

   https://macos-defaults.com/#%F0%9F%99%8B-what-s-a-defaults-c...

5. libelektra

   4 3 206 9.4 C

   Discontinued Elektra serves as a universal and secure framework to access configuration settings in a global, hierarchical key database.

   

   It should also report the syntax and so on, and actually you want a way to directly modify configuration values. So if you think this through, you will end up with something like https://www.libelektra.org

6. dagger

   5 114 13,709 9.9 Go

   An open-source runtime for composable workflows. Great for AI agents and CI/CD. (by dagger)

   

   Have you seen https://dagger.io/? Managing all that with code has been a life changer to me.

7. Daikon

   6 1 224 8.5 C

   Dynamic detection of likely invariants

   

8. kafka-images

   7 1 49 9.3 Python

   Confluent Docker images for Apache Kafka

   

   CONNECT_SSL_ENDPOINT_IDENTIFICATION_ALGORITHM and CONNECT_SASL_MECHANISM.

   And very importantly, don't forget CONNECT_SECURITY_PROTOCOL, as not only will you have odd connection failures (usually manifests as the client dying at the ApiVersions negotiation stage of the Kafka protocol's handshake), but because a script run in the image uses the value of that undocumented setting to execute a prerequisite in different ways [2], and you'll get weird behaviour that obscures the real issue.

   2) Support more than one way of configuring things - maybe I want to mount in a config file, maybe I want to provide a ConfigMap, maybe I want to do it via env vars. Well... [3]

   [0]: https://strimzi.io/docs/operators/latest/deploying.html#ref-...

   [1]: https://docs.confluent.io/platform/current/installation/dock...

   [2]: https://github.com/confluentinc/kafka-images/blob/master/kaf...

   [3]: https://strimzi.io/docs/operators/latest/deploying.html#asse...

9. SaaSHub

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   SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives

   

10. whatfiles

    8 2 942 3.3 C

    Log what files are accessed by any Linux process

    

    https://github.com/spieglt/whatfiles may be useful to find such files

11. TagSpaces

    9 63 4,288 9.8 TypeScript

    TagSpaces is an offline, open source, document manager with tagging support

    

    The UNIX filesystem has traditionally been a graph for ever. I haven't looked at details for a couple of decades, but definitely all UNIX/POSIX/Linux filesystems operate on a graph model.

    A distinction I used to make when I was teaching this stuff: on your filesystem tree, on Unix names (labels) are on the links (arrows), while on DOS/Windows names are on nodes (boxes).

    If you want to explore a tag-based system, take a look at https://www.tagspaces.org/

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