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

And now officially: MongoDB 3.6 has been released and ready for production.

#mongo

​​Docsify (★ 4371) is a magical documentation site generator. Docsify generates your documentation website on the fly. Unlike GitBook, it does not generate static html files. Instead, it smartly loads and parses your Markdown files and displays them as website. All you need to do is create an index.html to start and deploy it on GitHub Pages.

#documentation #generator

​​Parcel (★ 7437 on GitHub) is a web application bundler, differentiated by its developer experience. It offers blazing fast performance utilizing multicore processing, and requires zero configuration.

Features:
● Blazing fast bundle times - multicore compilation, and a filesystem cache for fast rebuilds even after a restart.
● Out of the box support for JS, CSS, HTML, file assets, and more - no plugins to install.
● Automatically transforms modules using Babel, PostCSS, and PostHTML when needed - even node_modules.
● Zero configuration code splitting using dynamic import() statements.
● Built in support for hot module replacement
● Friendly error logging experience - syntax highlighted code frames help pinpoint the problem.

#js #bundle

​​Git Interactive Rebase Tool - very interesting CLI utility that helps to perform a git rebase command. Check out the gif animations to see how it works. The project has only ★ 36 so far on GitHub, hovewer it looks very useful. Written in Rust.

#git #cli #rust

​​Checkup (★ 1927 on GitHub) is distributed, lock-free, self-hosted health checks and status pages. Checkup can be customized to check up on any of your sites or services at any time, from any infrastructure, using any storage provider of your choice. The status page can be customized to your liking since you can do your checks however you want. The status page is also mobile-responsive.

#go #cli #healthcheck

Nowadays HTTPS becomes more and more ubiquitous over the web thanks to LetsEncrypt. There are numbers of ways how you can set up your free certificates and automate renewing. But you definitely should pay your attention to the GetSSL script when you choose the way to manage SSL certificates.

GetSSL (★ 669) is the one configurable bash script that allows you to retrieve and update your certificates for different types of servers (https, FTP, SMTP, pop3 and so on...). You can run it remotely, so you even don't need to send the script to a production server. So, check out their GitHub page for details and add to your bookmarks

#bash #letsencrypt #cli #ssl #certificate