A Love Letter to Tinkerable Software

This page summarizes the projects mentioned and recommended in the original post on news.ycombinator.com

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  • lite

    A lightweight text editor written in Lua

  • Playing with browser developer tools and always seeing obfuscated JavaScript makes me sad. I'm not a web developer, but I suspect the security gained is low enough to fall within the author's "unnecessary constraints."

    On the other hand, there are projects like https://github.com/rxi/lite

  • civboot

    Civilizational Bootstraper: landing page and wiki

  • In case anyone's curious: I didn't recognize the .org domain but I felt lucky, punk, and followed it. civboot.org redirected me to https://github.com/civboot/civboot which I totally would feel comfortable visiting :)

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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  • Decker

    A multimedia sketchpad

  • Everything in web-decker is drawn to a canvas using a custom software-rendered imgui-style UI toolkit. I considered this approach essential for maintaining fidelity across platforms and implementations, but it does come with notable accessibility and performance tradeoffs.

    There is a native version of Decker implemented in C using SDL2. It's fairly easy to build from source for Linux[0], and I offer periodic Windows and MacOS builds on itch.io[1].

    [0] https://github.com/JohnEarnest/Decker#building

    [1] https://internet-janitor.itch.io/decker

NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a more popular project.

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