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Bootstrap
The most popular HTML, CSS, and JavaScript framework for developing responsive, mobile first projects on the web.
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Moby
The Moby Project - a collaborative project for the container ecosystem to assemble container-based systems
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Zulip
Zulip server and web application. Open-source team chat that helps teams stay productive and focused.
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pyinfra
🔧 pyinfra turns Python code into shell commands and runs them on your servers. Execute ad-hoc commands and write declarative operations. Target SSH servers, local machine and Docker containers. Fast and scales from one server to thousands.
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Talkyard
A community discussion platform: Brings together the main features from StackOverflow, Slack, Discourse, Reddit, and Disqus blog comments.
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Pyinfra: Automate Infrastructure Using Python
I just started using Pyinfra to wrangle a bunch of servers and it is a breath of fresh air compared to Ansible. I moved all of my server OS installs to Fedora CoreOS which doesn't ship with Python in the OS and since Pyinfra doesn't need Python on the host node I can kick off tasks in bulk to do server things. It is great. I cannot wait to see where the Pyinfra project goes.
On a side note, one of the most hacky things I came up with to get Ansible working on Fedora CoreOS was to bind mount a container rootfs that had python 3 and then symlink it into the right spots. You can of course add Python in with rpm-ostree if you want but I wanted to avoid layering packages at the time. I wasn't proud of it. But it worked.
https://github.com/forem/selfhost/blob/main/playbooks/templa...
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Deploying Forem on Render.com PromptZone.com
This is not the suggested way of deployment by the forem team, nevertheless I found it easier and smother than using the deployment selfhost, however I think it's good to know different approaches and use the one suits you the most, if you don't have time to manage a server I think using a pass like Render does the job, and it's cheaper then Heroku at the time of this post.
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Open Source Repositories
Forem Self-Host. You should probably know Forem. But in case you don't, just know that DEV is hosted on it.
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Docker is dead? Podman – an alternative tool?
I only use Podman for my workloads these days. Docker was always a headache for me on Linux. Podman allows me to quickly do whatever I want with containers and I can use systemd or a simple bash script to easily create services on my workstation or in production with Nomad with https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad-driver-podman
I am super thankful for the team of developers that work on Podman. It has really come a long way since 2.0 and they are very responsive to issues in my experiences. If you are using Linux as your daily driver and you use Containers give Podman a try. Here are some examples of the things I have done with Podman.
https://github.com/forem/selfhost
https://github.com/jdoss/ppngx
https://gist.github.com/jdoss/25f9dac0a616e524f8794a89b7989e...
https://gist.github.com/jdoss/ad87375b776178e9031685b71dbe37...
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Encourage Community with a Good ReadMe
To automatically generate a TOC, you can use an online tool like the GitHub Wiki TOC generator. I used this tool to create the TOC in Forem’s Selfhost project when I was a developer advocate there.
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Forem AWS user access is too high
Hi, everyone; I just tried the tutorial for deploying a self-hosted instance of forem (https://github.com/forem/selfhost) on AWS. A step in the tutorial asks for the creation of an AWS user with Programmatic access called forem-selfhost with the following
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Please stop closing forums and moving people to Discord
We (I work for Forem) have an opensource selfhost installer [0] so you can have total control over your data and community too.
[0] https://github.com/forem/selfhost
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Forem Self-Host is Now Officially Supported
If you know what Forem you want to build, please follow the instructions and go live — again, the Self-Host instructions are available here!
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forem/selfhost is an open source project licensed under GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 which is an OSI approved license.
The primary programming language of selfhost is Jinja.
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