Microgrants ($100–$500) for microprojects to make computing marginally better

• num

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Great idea. If anyone here has POSIX distro skills, I'll donate $100 to you or your favorite charity for help getting Num added to the POSIX standard track. Num is free open source software that uses `awk` to calculate many typical statistics on the command line.

https://github.com/numcommnd/num

• num

  2 129 3.5 Shell

  Num: number utilities for mathematics (by numcommand)

  

• 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.

  

• awesome-uxn

  5 618 6.3

  Awesome things from the community

  

Dunno if author is around here, but I'd like to point out a group who are working to make low-spec, low-powerusage software.

https://100r.co/site/mission.html

They're a couple living in a boat (all by choice). Having encountered challenges like being off the grid for a prolonged amount of time and having to budget electricity for months at a time, they built a whole suite of creative apps that run on an incredibly limited amount of specs, including building a platform akin to PICO8 that can run such creative software on many embedded devices like the Gameboy Advance (https://github.com/hundredrabbits/awesome-uxn)

• ideas

  19 3,763 1.8

  a hundred ideas for computing - a record of ideas - https://samsquire.github.io/ideas/ (by samsquire)

https://github.com/samsquire/ideas4 (incomplete)

I've emailed them and I am interested in donating to see what interesting projects people shall come up with.

I am interested in distributed systems, parallelism, data structures, algorithms, database architecture. I like the idea of a compiler that exposes its pipeline as a website that people can write materialized views over. Static analysis and optimisation crowdsourced. Like compiler explorer. If you represent your mappings as algebra then you can find equivalent plans like a cost based optimiser in a database.

Ideas4 has data structure ideas.

• ideas2

  13 268 0.0

  Another 85+ Ideas for Computing https://samsquire.github.io/ideas2/

• ideas3

  12 253 0.0

  An Extra 100 Ideas For Computing - https://samsquire.github.io/ideas3/

• ideas4

  26 89 4.6

  An Additional 100 Ideas for Computing https://samsquire.github.io/ideas4/

https://github.com/samsquire/ideas4 (incomplete)

I've emailed them and I am interested in donating to see what interesting projects people shall come up with.

I am interested in distributed systems, parallelism, data structures, algorithms, database architecture. I like the idea of a compiler that exposes its pipeline as a website that people can write materialized views over. Static analysis and optimisation crowdsourced. Like compiler explorer. If you represent your mappings as algebra then you can find equivalent plans like a cost based optimiser in a database.

Ideas4 has data structure ideas.

• 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.

  

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