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• mavis

  1 110 0.0 Elixir

  opinionated typing library for elixir

working on a static typechecking system for Elixir: https://github.com/ityonemo/mavis (it looks like it's not being worked on but one of the development branches is in the middle of a very painful refactor)

• Entity_Storage

  1 0 0.0 PowerShell

  basic entity memory management

after a few-month hiatus I've been getting back into playing around with Jonathan Blow's closed-beta compiler and enjoying it immensely, especially now that I've finally gotten around to delving into the metaprogramming stuff. I made a dead-simple entity system (not ECS) module [0], and while it's definitely not ready for production, it seems to be exactly what I always wanted to make in C/C++ for my past projects, but never was able to (elegantly, at least). I am very pleased with this language even though it's still definitely a beta project (odd WIP syntax here and there, very occasional mysterious compiler bugs. considering maybe doing a writeup of my experience so far...

[0] https://github.com/rezich/Entity_Framework

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com sponsored

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• mpack

  1 510 1.1 C

  MPack - A C encoder/decoder for the MessagePack serialization format / msgpack.org[C]

I recently released a new version of my C MessagePack library MPack [1] with a cool new feature to dynamically calculate the size of maps and arrays during encoding. Having to always specify the size of containers up-front was a pain. I believe it's the only C/C++ MessagePack implementation that can do this. Of course bugs appeared immediately so I am working on a patch release.

I am also working on and off on my C template library Pottery [2]. I haven't pushed any code in a while; having a day job and young children makes progress slow :(

[1]: https://github.com/ludocode/mpack

• pottery

  14 119 1.8 C

  Pottery - A container and algorithm template library in C (by ludocode)

• peterburk

  2 3 2.8 HTML

  Discontinued Github page [Moved to: https://github.com/peterburk/peterburk.github.io]

nanoLyrics: grep song lyrics to write love letters (or make puns)

https://github.com/peterburk/peterburk.github.io/blob/master...

These days it's mostly adding more data, though my colleague Simon helpfully suggested some GUI redesign, and having an auto-linkback to the YouTube videos would be convenient.

From this past week, discussing the touch-sensitive power button on our embedded system at work:

You can turn me on with just a touch, baby

• create-rust-app

  50 1,443 6.9 Rust

  Set up a modern rust+react web app by running one command.

Over the past few months, I've been trying to contribute to the rust ecosystem to enable devs to make webapps comfortably.

The latest challenge I've been addressing is auto generating react hooks to use Rust API endpoints. I'm just about ready to publish it soon. These kinds of things are much easier to do in rust rather than other languages.

If you'd like to explore web development in rust:

https://github.com/wulf/create-rust-app

• resholve

  11 208 7.7 Python

  a shell resolver? :) (find and resolve shell script dependencies)

(mostly) picking at the problem of rewriting bare invocations of external commands in shell scripts to use abspaths (plus some related yak-shaves). Primary motive is making shell easier to package in the Nix ecosystem, though the behavior isn't Nix-specific. https://github.com/abathur/resholve

Currently... chasing a luxuriously-maned yak named "granular documentation single-sourcing", though...

• WorkOS

  workos.com sponsored

  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.

  

• joystick

  49 194 9.7 JavaScript

  A full-stack JavaScript framework for building stable, easy-to-maintain apps and websites.

  

Just finished a new full-stack JS framework I'm hyped on: https://github.com/cheatcode/joystick.

• The Lounge

  61 5,392 8.3 TypeScript

  💬 ‎ Modern, responsive, cross-platform, self-hosted web IRC client

  

• VW_Flash

  11 278 4.7 Python

  Flashing tools for VW AG control units over UDS. Compression, encryption, RSA bypass, and checksums are supported for Simos18.1/6/10, DQ250-MQB, DQ381-MQB, and Haldex4Motion-Gen5-MQB.

I have been reverse engineering automotive ECUs for a while now - https://github.com/bri3d/VW_Flash . It's a nice change from my day job in enterprise engineering management, and I've met some fun people and taught several folks a lot of new concepts, which is always extremely rewarding.

My latest project has been reverse engineering the data-flash encryption in Simos18 ECUs. After some work, it oddly appears the encryption algorithm used is Mifare Hitag2. I'm hoping to be able to re-encrypt NVRAM channels soon, although the overall data flash "filesystem" / channel-system layout needs some more work before I am ready to release my findings.

• noa

  6 601 6.1 JavaScript

  Experimental voxel game engine.

Neat thread! My contribution is that I'm still working on a web-based voxel game engine. It's gotten pretty stable, so maybe about time to tackle some big missing features (e.g. physics for non-square voxels..).

https://github.com/fenomas/noa/tree/develop

Our motto: "the voxel engine so good that Mojang once pretended it was an old buggy version of Minecraft" ;)

• ntfy

  288 16,590 9.6 Go

  Send push notifications to your phone or desktop using PUT/POST

I've been working on a HTTP based pub sub service that's free and open source for funsies. It's written in Go. [0] you can use it like this:

$ curl -d "Backup failed" ntfy.sh/mytopic

I also made an Android app for it which let's you receive messages on subscribed topics as notifications. It was a ton of fun building. I can't believe how much I liked learning Kotlin. The app is also open source and is pending review in the Play Store. If anyone would like to be a tester shoot me a message [1]

[0] https://ntfy.sh and https://github.com/binwiederhier/ntfy

[1] https://github.com/binwiederhier/ntfy-android

• ntfy-android

  20 449 3.0 Kotlin

  Android app for ntfy.sh

I've been working on a HTTP based pub sub service that's free and open source for funsies. It's written in Go. [0] you can use it like this:

$ curl -d "Backup failed" ntfy.sh/mytopic

I also made an Android app for it which let's you receive messages on subscribed topics as notifications. It was a ton of fun building. I can't believe how much I liked learning Kotlin. The app is also open source and is pending review in the Play Store. If anyone would like to be a tester shoot me a message [1]

[0] https://ntfy.sh and https://github.com/binwiederhier/ntfy

[1] https://github.com/binwiederhier/ntfy-android

• lldap

  76 3,473 9.2 Rust

  Light LDAP implementation

  

I'm working on a dirt-simple LDAP server for self-hosted user management, written in Rust, with the frontend also written in Rust (compiled to WASM): https://github.com/nitnelave/lldap

I had an MVP release last month, and working on compatibility with more services, password reset and so on.

• py_regular_expressions

  43 1,716 2.8 Python

  Learn Python Regular Expressions step by step from beginner to advanced levels

I'm currently working on a GUI app to help progammers practice Python regular expressions [0]. I don't have much experience with GUI, but I've made a start. I know it won't be pleasing to the eye, but I hope it will have the features I wish to implement.

[0] https://github.com/learnbyexample/py_regular_expressions/tre...

• adsb_deku

  15 411 7.9 Rust

  ✈️ Rust ADS-B decoder + tui radar application

  

• dump1090_rs

  10 89 7.2 Rust

  Multi-SDR supported Rust translation of the popular dump1090 project for ADS-B demodulation

  

• egglog0

  3 65 2.9 Rust

  Datalog + Egg = Good

• concise-encoding

  22 255 7.2 ANTLR

  The secure data format for a modern world

I'm continuing to work on https://concise-encoding.org which is a new security-conscious ad-hoc encoding format to replace JSON/XML and friends. I've been at it for 3 years so far and am close to a release.

In a nutshell:

- Edit in text, transmit in binary. One can be seamlessly converted to the other, but binary is far more efficient for processing, storage and transmission, while text is better for humans to read and edit (which happens far less often than the other things).

- Secure by design: Everything is tightly specced and accounted for so that there aren't differences between implementations that can be exploited to compromise your system. https://github.com/kstenerud/concise-encoding/blob/master/ce...

- Real type support because coercing everything into strings sucks (and is another security risk and source of incompatibilities).

XML had a good run but was replaced by JSON which was a big improvement. JSON also had a good run but it's time for it to retire now that the landscape has changed even further: Security and efficiency are the desires of today, and JSON provides neither.

I've got the spec nailed down and can finally see the light at the end of the tunnel for the reference implementation in golang. I still need to come up with a system for schemas, but I'm hoping that https://cuelang.org will fit the bill.

• cue

  28 3,181 9.1 Go

  Discontinued CUE has moved to https://github.com/cue-lang/cue (by cuelang)

  

I'm continuing to work on https://concise-encoding.org which is a new security-conscious ad-hoc encoding format to replace JSON/XML and friends. I've been at it for 3 years so far and am close to a release.

In a nutshell:

- Edit in text, transmit in binary. One can be seamlessly converted to the other, but binary is far more efficient for processing, storage and transmission, while text is better for humans to read and edit (which happens far less often than the other things).

- Secure by design: Everything is tightly specced and accounted for so that there aren't differences between implementations that can be exploited to compromise your system. https://github.com/kstenerud/concise-encoding/blob/master/ce...

- Real type support because coercing everything into strings sucks (and is another security risk and source of incompatibilities).

XML had a good run but was replaced by JSON which was a big improvement. JSON also had a good run but it's time for it to retire now that the landscape has changed even further: Security and efficiency are the desires of today, and JSON provides neither.

I've got the spec nailed down and can finally see the light at the end of the tunnel for the reference implementation in golang. I still need to come up with a system for schemas, but I'm hoping that https://cuelang.org will fit the bill.

• moros

  18 775 8.9 Rust

  MOROS: Obscure Rust Operating System 🦉

Writing a little OS for fun in rust: https://github.com/vinc/moros

I started two years ago and I'm finding that project very fulfilling with lots of areas to explore. For example I recently bought an old ThinkPad to have another reference computer and played with Coreboot+SeaBIOS to understand the BIOS better. I'm also reading about the early history of Unix and how some features I'm implementing where developed in the first place. It's never ending and perfect!

• Camlistore

  29 6,395 7.8 Go

  Perkeep (née Camlistore) is your personal storage system for life: a way of storing, syncing, sharing, modelling and backing up content.

  

For your second point, you might want to have a look at Perkeep: https://perkeep.org/

It supports the kind of queries you are after, but it’s a bit of a passion project and development is slow. What’s already there works well though.

• PropertyWebBuilder

  18 514 0.0 Ruby

  Create a fully featured real estate website on Rails in minutes! ⛺

Hi, I think it is great that you are making the effort to open source your project. I did the same with a real estate website builder I created:

https://github.com/etewiah/property_web_builder

It was a lot of work but I now have a small stream of people who contact me every so often about it.

BTW, you seem like a smart guy and I am looking for someone to work with me on a relaunch of the project as a paid product. I have learnt a lot in the years since my first attempt so I think I have a pretty decent chance of success this time round.

• metasploit-gym

  1 30 0.0 Python

  An environment for testing AI agents against networks using Metasploit.

  

• datashare

  4 542 9.8 Java

  A self-hosted search engine for documents.

  

I have slowly collected a large (several million file) ebook library from open directories over the past few years. I am now trying to set up a search solution for it.

Recoll doesn't seem to work well headless, so I am taking a look at: https://github.com/ICIJ/datashare

which claims to be able to do some distributed indexing.

• SaaSHub

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

  

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