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​​TANDEM (★ 470 on gitHub) is a decentralized, collaborative text-editing solution.
Collaborating is as easy as installing the plugin on your editor and creating a Tandem Session.

Tandem is split into four components: the editor plugins, the networking agent, the conflict-free replicated data type (CRDT) solution, and the rendezvous server.

At the moment only three editors are supported: Sublime text3, NeoVim and Vim.

Few months ago Atom and VsCode also announced their solution.

#collaboration #editing #python
​​Mark Text (★ 1363 on GitHub) is a Markdown editor for Mac, Windows, and Linux. It is a concise text editor, dedicated to improving your editing efficiency. Written on Electron.

Features

● Realtime preview and use snabbdom as its render engine.
● Support CommonMark Spec and GitHub Flavored Markdown Spec.
● Support paragraphs and inline style shortcuts to improve your writing efficiency.
● Output HTML and PDF file.
● Dark and Light themes.
● Various edit mode: Source Code mode, Typewriter mode, Focus mode.

#js #editing #markdown #editor
​​Authenticator (★ 73) is two-factor authentication code desktop generator for GNOME. Created with love using Python and Gtk.

Features:
● QR code scanner
● Beautiful UI
● Huge database of (290+) websites/applications

Please read also article at OMGUbuntu.

#linux #authentication
​​Testcontainers recently passed over 1000 stars threshold. It is an perfect reason to pen a post about this utterly useful library.

Intro

When you write unit-tests for your code, you usually mock all the external dependencies, such as database calls or message queue polling. But what if you need to make integration tests with real dependencies? Usually, it is quite tricky, because in this case, you have to have real services installed in your system, which is not very convenient. Say, you want to write integration tests working with a database, in this situation you need a real database running on your local machine.

As you can see, it is kind of a problem and not flexible at all, because you run tests on other developers computers and CI servers and all these guys also need to run the database to make tests passing. Is there any convenient solution?

Solution

Introducing Testcontainers (★ 1006). This java-library allows you to set up your dependencies right from your integration tests using Docker containers. Your tests remain independent of other services because each test set up an individual environment for its runtime.

Look how easy to use it. Say, you need a Redis for your test, then you add the class rule like so:

// Set up a redis container
@ClassRule
public static GenericContainer redis =
new GenericContainer("redis:3.0.2")
.withExposedPorts(6379);


and a spare Redis will be available for your tests on the 6379 port.

Please, refer to official documentation for more examples. This library also exists as a plugin for Spock framework and Scala tests.

#java #docker #tests #container #spock #scala
​​Release: CockroachDB 2.0 Has Arrived! 🎉

CockroachDB (★ 13037 on GitHub) is the open source, cloud-native SQL database.

CockroachDB is a distributed SQL database built on a transactional and strongly-consistent key-value store. It scales horizontally; survives disk, machine, rack, and even datacenter failures with minimal latency disruption and no manual intervention; supports strongly-consistent ACID transactions; and provides a familiar SQL API for structuring, manipulating, and querying data.

#release #sql #cloud #db
​​Trickster (★ 233) is a reverse proxy cache for the Prometheus HTTP APIv1 that dramatically accelerates dashboard rendering times for any series queried from Prometheus.

Most dashboards request the entire time range of data from the time series database, every time a dashboard loads or reloads. Trickster's Delta Proxy inspects the time range of a client query to determine what data points are already cached, and requests from Prometheus only the data points still needed to service the client request. This results in dramatically faster chart load times for everyone, since Prometheus is queried only for tiny incremental changes on each dashboard load, rather than several hundred data points of duplicative data.

#prometheus #dashboard #monitoring #caching #proxy
Hi everyone! What kind of useful stuff is the most interesting for you? What would you like to see on this channel?

Frontend, JS – 23
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The channel content is fine, keep going! – 7
👍👍 13%

DevOps utilities and tips – 5
👍👍 9%

Developer tools, IDEs, helpful scripts – 5
👍👍 9%

Security tools, hacking – 2
👍 4%

Design widgets, CSS
▫️ 0%

Wider range of programming languages and platforms
▫️ 0%

👥 54 people voted so far. Poll closed.
​​gotop (★179) is yet another TUI graphical activity monitor, inspired by gtop and vtop.

#monitoring #terminal #cli
​​Wunderbar - (★ 497) is the simple horizontal bar chart printer for your terminal. Written in JavaScript.

#js #cli #terminal
​​Glide.js (★ 2745) is JavaScript ES6 slider and carousel.

The version 3.0 has been recently released with a lot of performance improvements. The whole code was rewritten from jQuery to vanilla JavaScript, making it dependency-free, fast and lightweight (~22kb or ~7kb gzipped).

#js #slider #release
​​Because of Telegram blockage in some countries, VPN and proxy servers are utterly useful these days. Here is the list of the most popular tools and scripts helping to install all the necessary software for your privacy.

StreisandEffect (★ 14,297) - the collection of Ansible cookbooks, that helps you to install a new server running your choice of WireGuard, OpenConnect, OpenSSH, OpenVPN, Shadowsocks, sslh, Stunnel, and a Tor bridge. It also generates custom instructions for all of these services. At the end of the run, you are given an HTML file with instructions that can be shared with friends, family members, and fellow activists. The very good choice you can start with.

Algo VPN (★ 8,277) - is a set of Ansible scripts that simplify the setup of a personal IPSEC VPN. It uses the most secure defaults available, works with common cloud providers, and does not require client software on most devices.

openvpn-install (★ 6,602) - OpenVPN road warrior installer for Debian, Ubuntu, and CentOS. This Shell script will let you set up your own VPN server in no more than a minute, even if you haven't used OpenVPN before. It has been designed to be as unobtrusive and universal as possible.

sovereign (★ 6,921) - is a set of Ansible playbooks that you can use to build and maintain your own personal cloud-based entirely on open source software, so you’re in control. This script helps you to install: IMAP over SSL with full-text search, POP3 over SSL, SMTP over SSL, Spam fighting, Mobile push notifications, Jabber/XMPP, RSS Reader, CalDAV and CardDAV, your own private storage, VPN, IRC, Git hosting, Web hosting and many more...

And there are few SOCKS5 links for your Telegram

SS5 - is a socks server that implements the SOCKS v4 and v5 protocol.

Dante - A free SOCKS server

3proxy - tiny free proxy server

ShadowSocks - A secure socks5 proxy, designed to protect your Internet traffic.

go-socks5 library (★ 485) - golang package that implements SOCKS5 protocol.

If you think I should add some another stuff that I missed, please email to me, and I will update this post. Let's keep it up to date together. Thanks!

#privacy #censorship #proxy #security #vpn
​​gh-ost (★ 4,403) - is a triggerless online schema migration solution for MySQL. It is testable and provides pausability, dynamic control/reconfiguration, auditing, and many operational perks. Created by GitHub's team.

#migration #schema #mysql
​​The most popular online source code hosting is undoubtedly GitHub. The second is Bitbucket. And these services are de-facto standards in our industry to store a project code. But what if you want to host your source code locally, inside your organisation on your own server?

One of the most known self-hosting solutions is GitLab. Written on Ruby and providing rich functionality, it requires considerable resources from your server. But what if you want just only keep your code, and you have an only small server, such as RaspberryPI?

The most popular solution here is Gogs (★ 24,700 on GitHub). This is the very lightweight self-hosting system that looks like GitHub clone, giving everything you need to keep the code and communicate with your teammates via pull requests. Furthermore, it doesn't consume a bunch of resources, so you can easily run it even on RaspberryPI. There is only one issue with that tool: it is owned by one person and he keeps under his control the whole workflow. As result, the project is developed not so fast as many would want to.

As a response to that circumstance, the new fork was created. It is called Gitea (★ 6,477 on GitHub). The main purpose of this project is to make a community-driven project with the simple voting model. As result, many issues are closed fast, pull requests are merged to the master branch more actively and the community itself is utterly friendly.

Both Gogs and Gitea are fantastic tools and I highly recommend to use them for your team.

#git #selfhosted #server #go
Do you remember I posted recently the list of open source comment engines for your blog? Ok, forget about everything I told you before. Here is the game changer.

Introducing Remark42. It is a self-hosted, lightweight, and simple (yet functional) comment engine, which doesn't spy on users.

Why is that big deal? There is the very popular technical podcast Radio-T and they've used Disqus for a long time. Despite popularity, Disqus has a number of disadvantages, including heavyweight. And podcast host @umputun started to make their own comment engine for podcast needs. Now the code is open sourced and hosted on GitHub (★ 376).

So why Remark42 is worth to be considered for your next blog?
1) authors are very respected people in the tech community and they created blog engine for their own needs, no "dog food selling".
2) import from Disqus
3) smart system for upvoting and downvoting
4) fully dockerized, that makes installation very easy process
5) uses BoltDB as a database, that makes app blazingly fast and resources effective. This is the embedded database, so no external store is needed, all the data is stored in one single file.
and many more...

So please take a look at the demo and join the community, send PR and report issues. Happy blogging!

#comments #go #podcast
​​Mint - a refreshing programming language for the front-end web, aiming to solve the most common issues of Single Page Applications (SPAs) at a language level:

● Reusable components
● Styling
● Routing
● Global and local state handling
● Synchronous and asynchronous computations that might fail

While focusing on:

● Developer happiness
● Fast compilation
● Readability

The project is available at GitHub (★485) and the current status is alpha.

The compiler is written in 💎 Crystal programming language.

#frontend #crystal #language
​​Vuido (★ 3,498) makes it possible to create lightweight, native desktop applications using Vue.js. Applications using Vuido can run on Windows, OS X and Linux, using native GUI components, and don't require Electron.

#js #desktop #vuejs
​​WTF (★ 1,884 on GitHub) is a personal information dashboard for your terminal, developed for those who spend most of their day in the command line.

It provides a framework for rapidly viewing important at-a-glance information easily.

Check the screenshot to get an idea what WTF can do for you.

#cli #go #terminal #organizer
​​Tusk (★ 1,017 on GitHub) is an unofficial, featureful, open source, community-driven, free Evernote app.

#js #desktop #notes
​​vue-element-admin (★ 13,988) is a production-ready solution for admin interfaces. Based on Vue.js and use the UI Toolkit -- element. vue-element-admin is a magical vue admin, it based on the newest development stack of vue, built-in i18n solution, typical templates for enterprise applications, lots of awesome features. It helps you build a large complex Single-Page Applications. I believe whatever your needs are, this project will help you.

Please, take a look at the demo.

#js #vuejs #admin
​​NimForum (★ 336) is the lightweight alternative to Discourse. The most interesting fact is it's written in Nim language.

You can see demo in the wild here: https://forum.nim-lang.org/

#forum #nim #support