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Just today I set this up for exactly this problem https://github.com/go-shiori/shiori
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Civic Auth
Auth in Less Than 5 Minutes. Civic Auth comes with multiple SSO options, optional embedded wallets, and user management — all implemented with just a few lines of code. Start building today.
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Ah, the "hall of shame" HN thead I have been waiting for! Too many to recount here, but the one I probably sunk in most time was fauxjsp [1], a dev-friendly reimplementation of java server pages. I don't regret spending time on the project because it was fun, it was time I couldn't/wouldn't have spent on anyting better and I learned a bit about software architecture.
And you?
[1] https://github.com/ggeorgovassilis/fauxjsp
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tone
tone is a cross platform audio tagger and metadata editor to dump and modify metadata for a wide variety of formats, including mp3, m4b, flac and more. It has no dependencies and can be downloaded as single binary for Windows, macOS, Linux and other common platforms.
Yet another cross platform command line audio tagger in c# - now scriptable / hackable:
https://github.com/sandreas/tone
I thought there are not enough taggers out there, so I'm gonna make my own, with blackjack and hook(er)s!
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asyncgo
Discontinued AsyncGo is a collaboration app designed around async/remote team communication.
I made an async work collaboration app: https://github.com/async-go/asyncgo
I had been working at GitLab, pre-pandemic, for several years and I saw how writing things down was almost like a super power to enable async work. If you start with time zone distributed teams, writing things down in issues/docs just becomes the natural way of working. I also saw that lots of companies didn't really get it - and there was a leap of faith required to try it, because it didn't logically follow that if you write things down more you can have less meetings.
My idea was to build something that provided a really natural place to write things down, and I built and tried to sell AsyncGo as a place for making decisions in a written way. You'd set a topic, a context, and a due date, and then the magic would happen. In theory. The problem I had was that I couldn't find anyone to take the leap and try it. Companies who were interested in async already had some similar process, and the ones who needed it didn't get it and I never found a way to communicate it clearly.
In the end I shut down the hosted version and put an MIT license on it. I don't regret it exactly, I learned a lot making it, but I wish it had helped more people. There's other stuff out there now that's sort of similar, and it seems they are struggling a bit as well, so I don't think the market was really there (yet).
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pgredis - A server that talks the redis protocol to clients, and stores all data in a postgres database.
No regrets, I learnt a lot and had fun messing with it for a while.
https://github.com/yob/pgredis
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I've spent way too much time implementing a transpiler and bash like shell that makes programming my ships in Kerbal Space Program easier. The self-hosted version is almost done. I'd probably do it again though, way too much fun to see your spaceships autonomously do things.
Transpiler: https://gitlab.com/thexa4/kos-kpp
OS: https://gitlab.com/thexa4/kosos
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InfluxDB
InfluxDB high-performance time series database. Collect, organize, and act on massive volumes of high-resolution data to power real-time intelligent systems.
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I've spent way too much time implementing a transpiler and bash like shell that makes programming my ships in Kerbal Space Program easier. The self-hosted version is almost done. I'd probably do it again though, way too much fun to see your spaceships autonomously do things.
Transpiler: https://gitlab.com/thexa4/kos-kpp
OS: https://gitlab.com/thexa4/kosos
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muxile
Putting tmux on your mobile - Muxile is a tmux plugin that lets you control a running tmux session with your phone, no app needed.
I have plenty of ultra niche projects and I never regretted working on any of them. On the contrary - i use them daily and it brings me much joy. Here are three:
https://github.com/bjesus/muxile lets me continue my tmux session on the phone, bridging the two over WebSockets. How many people use tmux extensively AND want to continue on the phone? Not much i guess...
https://github.com/bjesus/callibella is my way to sync my personal calendar to my work calendar without revealing my personal entries. It's very useful for me but less needed if your personal calendar is Google because i heard they have their own integration.
https://github.com/bjesus/air is my AwesomeWM based Interface to my PostmarketOS Kobo e-reader. Linux on your e-reader isn't a huge market share to begin with...
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I have plenty of ultra niche projects and I never regretted working on any of them. On the contrary - i use them daily and it brings me much joy. Here are three:
https://github.com/bjesus/muxile lets me continue my tmux session on the phone, bridging the two over WebSockets. How many people use tmux extensively AND want to continue on the phone? Not much i guess...
https://github.com/bjesus/callibella is my way to sync my personal calendar to my work calendar without revealing my personal entries. It's very useful for me but less needed if your personal calendar is Google because i heard they have their own integration.
https://github.com/bjesus/air is my AwesomeWM based Interface to my PostmarketOS Kobo e-reader. Linux on your e-reader isn't a huge market share to begin with...
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I have plenty of ultra niche projects and I never regretted working on any of them. On the contrary - i use them daily and it brings me much joy. Here are three:
https://github.com/bjesus/muxile lets me continue my tmux session on the phone, bridging the two over WebSockets. How many people use tmux extensively AND want to continue on the phone? Not much i guess...
https://github.com/bjesus/callibella is my way to sync my personal calendar to my work calendar without revealing my personal entries. It's very useful for me but less needed if your personal calendar is Google because i heard they have their own integration.
https://github.com/bjesus/air is my AwesomeWM based Interface to my PostmarketOS Kobo e-reader. Linux on your e-reader isn't a huge market share to begin with...
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mega_calendar
Plugin for redmine: Brings a better calendar and more opportunities to display issues and holidays
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timeline
Timeline generator. Turns your photos, calendars, GPS tracks and more into a nice timeline of your life.
My timeline thing. It gathers all my crap and puts in onto a timeline. It's a more fine-grained version of scrolling to a specific date on my photo stream.
https://github.com/nicbou/timeline
It serves no purpose, but somehow it attracted one contributor.
It's pointless on purpose. It's the thing I work on when I want to forget about work, and build purely for myself.
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I built Pegao[1] as an open source side project, which is a web aggregator or bookmark to group links into lists trying to solve my own problem: I had many tabs open on my phone. It didn't work, but I actually use it to remember some links or tools that I know I'll use for upcoming projects.
This is my profile https://pegao.co/@zakokor
[1]https://pegao.co/
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Smalltalk
Parser, code model, interpreter and navigable browser for the original Xerox Smalltalk-80 v2 sources and virtual image file (by rochus-keller)
- https://github.com/rochus-keller/Smalltalk/ Parser, code model, interpreter and navigable browser for the original Xerox Smalltalk-80 v2 sources and virtual image file
- https://github.com/rochus-keller/Som/ Parser, code model, navigable browser and VM for the SOM Smalltalk dialect
- https://github.com/rochus-keller/Simula A Simula 67 parser written in C++ and Qt
> do you regret those endeavours?
No, not in any way; the projects were very entertaining and gave me interesting insights.
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- https://github.com/rochus-keller/Smalltalk/ Parser, code model, interpreter and navigable browser for the original Xerox Smalltalk-80 v2 sources and virtual image file
- https://github.com/rochus-keller/Som/ Parser, code model, navigable browser and VM for the SOM Smalltalk dialect
- https://github.com/rochus-keller/Simula A Simula 67 parser written in C++ and Qt
> do you regret those endeavours?
No, not in any way; the projects were very entertaining and gave me interesting insights.
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- https://github.com/rochus-keller/Smalltalk/ Parser, code model, interpreter and navigable browser for the original Xerox Smalltalk-80 v2 sources and virtual image file
- https://github.com/rochus-keller/Som/ Parser, code model, navigable browser and VM for the SOM Smalltalk dialect
- https://github.com/rochus-keller/Simula A Simula 67 parser written in C++ and Qt
> do you regret those endeavours?
No, not in any way; the projects were very entertaining and gave me interesting insights.
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ArchiveBox
🗃 Open source self-hosted web archiving. Takes URLs/browser history/bookmarks/Pocket/Pinboard/etc., saves HTML, JS, PDFs, media, and more...
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react-qml
Build native, high-performance, cross-platform applications through a React (and/or QML) syntax
Not exactly useless but I haven't updated it for a long time. The project is called react-qml[0]. Basically it allows you to develop Desktop application using modern JavaScript/TypeScript and/or Qt/QML.
This project helped one of my consulting client 5x their development velocity.
[0]: https://github.com/longseespace/react-qml
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My project Rockstar: https://github.com/avinassh/rockstar
I have zero regrets, gave me lots of experience with open source and the community
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CodeRabbit
CodeRabbit: AI Code Reviews for Developers. Revolutionize your code reviews with AI. CodeRabbit offers PR summaries, code walkthroughs, 1-click suggestions, and AST-based analysis. Boost productivity and code quality across all major languages with each PR.
