What is the most useful project you've ever worked on?

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

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  • tededroid

    miniature incremental reader for Android in Java

  • biome

    A toolchain for web projects, aimed to provide functionalities to maintain them. Biome offers formatter and linter, usable via CLI and LSP.

  • It is great to see that so many users are enthusiastic about Biome. It is really gratifying to work on a project that is appreciated and useful to the community.

    [0] https://biomejs.dev/

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  • Elgg

    A social networking engine in PHP/MySQL

  • It's this: https://github.com/Elgg/Elgg

    It's pretty long in the tooth now - it's pretty old! But there's an amazing community and new core team that still keeps it up to date.

  • boxxy

    boxxy puts bad Linux applications in a box with only their files.

  • I made a tool to control where Linux applications put their files via bind mounts and environment variables: https://github.com/queer/boxxy

    I've heard that it's made it as far as university HPC clusters to help control iffy code written by students; I'm glad I managed to make that stuff a bit easier for the people operating them.

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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