https://boostnote.io - Open source note-taking app designed for programmers. Desktop and mobile apps are available. Written in JS 😔

#js #app #mobile

Say, you have a blog (may be created using a static site generator) and you want to add comments to it. In this scenario the most common solution is to use Disqus, which could be integrated to your site and keep all the conversations on their side. It is very convenient, but this solution has few drawbacks. Firstly, Disqus loads a lot of scripts to a browser that inevitably affects the loading time. Secondly, [paranoia mode: on] it collects too many information about your users [paranoia mode: off]. Here are few open sourse alternatives for Disqus.

1) Schnack.js, (★ 268), written in Node.js, supports authentication via Twitter and GitHub, avatars, admin panel. Requires SQlite. Easy to use and install.

2) Discourse, (★ 23044), very powerful platform written in Ruby on Rails. Check out their site for the full list of features, it is huge. But the installation is quite complicated and it is greedy for a resources from your server.

3) Isso, (★ 2461) looks very similar to Disqus, but written on Python. The result JS file is very lightweight (12kb gzipped), supports importing from Disqus and Wordpress, but does not provide third-party authentication.

4) Commento, (★ 2020) written in Go, very lightweight, looks nice, but the functionality is very limited.

Responsive email is hard. A quick and dirty solution is to use some ready service, such as Mailchimp that provides online drag-n-drop constructor to build template for your email. The result code is horrible, but it works. What if you want to write emails by yourself but you want to make it easy and fast? One solution is to use special markup languages that allows you to separate the layout and scaring inline style hacks. Here are few promising open source options for you.

1) HEML (★ 2136). Looks very similar to html, but contains some email-specific tags. HEML has clean documentation and online editor

2) MJML (★ 5865). Quite mature project with the large community. Unlike HTML it looks more like XML, but still very compact. However, when you add a tag attributes, the code looks messy, but again it is better than pure HTML. MJML also has very nice online constructor, but in addition you can install their desktop app to work offline (written on Electron). You might want to check their large library of ready templates with source codes to use.

#emails #js #responsive

RediSearch is open source (★761) full-text search engine built on top of Redis. It is the nice lightweight alternative to Solr and ElasticSearch. Written in C.

#search #redis

https://worldbrain.io - a free browser extension to search for every word of every website & PDF you visited or bookmarked. The data is stored and indexed only on your local computer and won't be accessible to anyone else. At the moment the project in Beta status. Check the video demonstration for the details.

#extension #search #beta #browser

​​Alacritty (★ 7642) - the fastest terminal emulator. It uses GPU to render fonts. If you work a lot in the terminal and edit your code in Emacs or Vim, then you probably spot the difference. I worked few weeks with Alactitty and I can say it worth to try. Written in Rust. You can install it only from the source files so far, so you have to clone the repo and compile it by yourself on your computer. Hovewer, the tutorial is quite understandable and itundefineds easy to follow it. Furthermore, the configuration is availably only via text files. And the most annoying is the lack of scrollback. But all the drawbacks will be fixed and implemented in the future.

#terminal #emulator #rust

Two code editors have announced their collaboration tools that allow developers to write code in real-time:

1) Visual Studio Live Share based on VSCode
2) Atom Teletype, Beta

​​SafeSecret is a simple service made for a single purpose: sharing confidential information in an easy, quick and secure way. Think of it as writing a paper note, letting someone read it, then burning it.

#security #secret

​​Coinmon (★ 504) is the CLI tool that prints the cryptocurrency prices right to your console. Written on JS.

#cli #js #crypto #cryptocurrency

GitHub introduces Team Discussions. No need to have issues cluttered with discussions or Pull Request flooded with lengthy conversations that aren’t related to your code changes, now all these talks have a new home.

#github #team #discussions

​​Scrollama (★ 440) is a modern & lightweight JavaScript library for scrollytelling. Check the examples section to see how it works

#js #scrollytelling

​​tldr (★ 11331, GitHub) is the simplified and community-driven man pages. Have you ever struggled to find needed information in a man page? The TLDR pages are a community effort to simplify the beloved man pages with practical examples. Anyone can add or edit the content of any page to make them more useful and easy to read.

#cli #js #terminal #help

imaskjs (★ 488) another vanilla javascript input mask library, lightweight.

#js #vanillajs

FreeType - is a popular font rendering engine. Since the 2.7 release it supports a new default mode for bytecode hinting - Subpixel hinting. So, if you work on Linux and you hate its font rendering (especially on high resolution monitors), I recommend you to install this engine to your computer.

Here are instructions (for Ubuntu), how to install the engine from PPA repositories:

 sudo add-apt-repository ppa:no1wantdthisname/ppa
 sudo apt update
 sudo apt install libfreetype6 fontconfig-infinality

and restart your computer. You will notice the difference straight away

#linux #font #lifehack #advice

Kotlin 1.2 Released. What's new

#release #kotlin

​​SausageWiki (★ 35) is very simple, self-contained Wiki engine, written on Rust. Only one executable, one database file. Easy to run, easy to backup.

#wiki #rust

​​The ConcourseCI has been released new version 3.7.0 full of new features and fixes. One of new major feature is they are experimenting with new UI, which is still in beta status. The developers are collecting feedback and discuss all the new UI improvements.

The ConcourseCI - is the continuous Integration (CI) system written by Pivotal. The main feature is that all the jobs are executed inside a docker containers, that allows to have a repeatable and reliable builds which are language-agnostic. All the building processes has form of pipeline, which gives you flexibility to implement any build, even the most complex. For a live example, see Concourse's own pipeline.

There is one good introduction presentation (in Russian) to ConcourseCI.

​​Akaunting is a free, open source and online accounting software designed for small businesses and freelancers. GitHub, (★ 333), written on PHP.
Have a lovely Monday everyone!

#accounting #php

​​GiraffQL - An interactive GraphQL exploration tool built with React. Create your schema, set up relations, generate and save your schema files and test your schema by writing some basic queries with Graphiql. Start exploring the capabilities of GraphQL with our App. Github (★ 102)

#graphql #react

​​http://cs-playground-react.surge.sh - Interesting resource and playground to learn algorithms.

#learning #algorithm