The Joy of Small Projects

• vaultexec

  1 1 10.0 Go

  Easily run applications with Vault.

Ha! Realized my copy/paste of my own didn't work.

https://github.com/funnylookinhat/vaultexec

I wanted to brush up on Golang, and this was a quick/useful project for our internal infrastructure.

• supabase

  767 65,869 10.0 TypeScript

  The open source Firebase alternative.

  

• 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.

  

• Hasura

  228 30,810 9.8 TypeScript

  Blazing fast, instant realtime GraphQL APIs on your DB with fine grained access control, also trigger webhooks on database events.

  

If you are building a mobile or web app, and not an API product, not having to write your backend is totally underrated. Hasura [0] or Supabase [1] lets you have a solid backend from a solid Postgres schema you design, which the part that arguably matters the most, and not the lossy and error prone CRUD API interface to the db. This frees up a ton of time which you can then use to improve your user experience and iterate on your idea without churning through a ton of backend code.

Having Postgres also helps a lot when you are just starting out and saves you a lot of upfront design and query planning cost you’d have with something like DynamoDB (which is pretty inflexible in ways you can query your data).

[0] https://hasura.io/

• gplaces

  4 28 6.9 C

  A simple terminal based Gemini client

For me, the best small side projects involve some kind of porting (between protocols, OSs or CPUs), contribution of a fix for a visible but mysterious bug, or revival of codebases in bad shape, especially when they're unfamiliar and written by others. You can learn a lot from a software engineering culture that's different from yours or small, feasible projects that allow you to understand the bits and bytes of something unfamiliar in a fun and useful way. These projects are great to develop flexibility and general problem solving intuition. And getting familiar with the 20% of an idea, a protocol, a programming language, etc' that's used 80% of the time in real-world use cases, is often enough.

https://github.com/dimkr/gplaces (Gopher -> Gemini port)

• paho.mqtt.embedded-c

  1 1 0.0 C

  Eclipse Paho MQTT C client library - enhanced and less brittle fork with SSL and WebSocket support, a modernized build system, CI and bug fixes

• loksh

  2 115 5.3 C

  A Linux port of OpenBSD's ksh

• locwm

  1 5 3.5 C

  A Linux port of OpenBSD's cwm

• 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.

  

• woof-CE

  4 371 9.3 Shell

  woof - the Puppy builder

  

• gtk

  1 1 10.0 C

  GTK+ 1.2.10, patched and working (by dimkr)

• CryptPad

  183 5,204 9.9 JavaScript

  Collaborative office suite, end-to-end encrypted and open-source.

  

https://cryptpad.fr/ should have everything you needed. Open source and end to end encrypted.

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