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Looking for inspiration? telescope.nvim [1] by nvim-telescope [2]. Find, Filter, Preview, Pick. All lua, all the time. References: [1]: https://github.com/nvim-telescope/telescope.nvim [2]: https://github.com/nvim-telescope
If you’re into interesting projects, don’t miss out on harpoon [1], created by ThePrimeagen [2]. No description available. References: [1]: https://github.com/ThePrimeagen/harpoon [2]: https://github.com/ThePrimeagen
The work on maggieappleton.com [1] by MaggieAppleton [2]. ⚠️ Now retired. My previous, poorly constructed digital garden built with Gatsby and MDX. Updated garden here: https://github.com/MaggieAppleton/maggieappleton.com-V2 References: [1]: https://github.com/MaggieAppleton/maggieappleton.com [2]: https://github.com/MaggieAppleton
Check out tmate-io [1] and their project tmate [2]. Instant Terminal Sharing References: [1]: https://github.com/tmate-io [2]: https://github.com/tmate-io/tmate
The work on cookiecutter-data-science [1] by drivendataorg [2]. A logical, reasonably standardized, but flexible project structure for doing and sharing data science work. References: [1]: https://github.com/drivendataorg/cookiecutter-data-science [2]: https://github.com/drivendataorg
Check out smitajit [1] and their project bufutils.vim [2]. bufutils.vim provide utilities to open, close, refresh, move, resize, zoom buffers faster References: [1]: https://github.com/smitajit [2]: https://github.com/smitajit/bufutils.vim
I like Rigellute’s [1] project spotify-tui [2]. Spotify for the terminal written in Rust 🚀 References: [1]: https://github.com/Rigellute [2]: https://github.com/Rigellute/spotify-tui
I like swyxio’s [1] project technical-community-builders [2]. companies hiring technical community builders References: [1]: https://github.com/swyxio [2]: https://github.com/swyxio/technical-community-builders
Just starred Minyus [1] by Minyus [2]. It’s an exciting project with a lot to offer. No description available. References: [1]: https://github.com/Minyus/Minyus [2]: https://github.com/Minyus
I like uranusjr’s [1] project simpleindex [2]. No description available. References: [1]: https://github.com/uranusjr [2]: https://github.com/uranusjr/simpleindex
I came across lorenabalan [1] from lorenabalan [2], and it’s packed with great features and ideas. Personal repo References: [1]: https://github.com/lorenabalan/lorenabalan [2]: https://github.com/lorenabalan
I came across vim.wasm [1] from rhysd [2], and it’s packed with great features and ideas. Vim editor ported to WebAssembly References: [1]: https://github.com/rhysd/vim.wasm [2]: https://github.com/rhysd
I recently discovered de1-python [1] by dataengineerone [2], and it’s truly impressive. Curated collection of DE1’s favorite kedro pieces. References: [1]: https://github.com/dataengineerone/de1-python [2]: https://github.com/dataengineerone
I recently discovered markserv [1] by markserv [2], and it’s truly impressive. 🏁 serve markdown as html [3] (GitHub style), index directories, live-reload as you edit References: [1]: https://github.com/markserv/markserv [2]: https://github.com/markserv [3]: /html/
facelessuser [1] has done a fantastic job with pymdown-extensions [2]. Highly recommend taking a look. Extensions for Python Markdown References: [1]: https://github.com/facelessuser [2]: https://github.com/facelessuser/pymdown-extensions
Check out dirsync [1] by tkhyn [2]. It’s a well-crafted project with great potential. No description available. References: [1]: https://github.com/tkhyn/dirsync [2]: https://github.com/tkhyn
Check out andrewlin12 [1] and their project markdown2png [2]. Render markdown to PNG (or other formats) References: [1]: https://github.com/andrewlin12 [2]: https://github.com/andrewlin12/markdown2png
I recently discovered twint [1] by twintproject [2], and it’s truly impressive. An advanced Twitter scraping & OSINT tool written in Python that doesn’t use Twitter’s API, allowing you to scrape a user’s followers, following, Tweets and more while evading most API limitations. References: [1]: https://github.com/twintproject/twint [2]: https://github.com/twintproject
I like pytest-dev’s [1] project pluggy [2]. A minimalist production ready plugin system References: [1]: https://github.com/pytest-dev [2]: https://github.com/pytest-dev/pluggy
to-mc [1] has done a fantastic job with checksumdir [2]. Highly recommend taking a look. Simple package to compute a single deterministic hash of the file contents of a directory. References: [1]: https://github.com/to-mc [2]: https://github.com/to-mc/checksumdir