Ask HN: which obscure Github projects have you found useful? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: which obscure Github projects have you found useful?

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Post by jashkenas » Tue, Nov 23, 2010, 11:34 PM UTC

evanrmurphy wrote: post #9

Not sure how obscure these would be here (I first learned about them on Hacker News), but I've found Backbone.js and Underscore.js to be extraordinary projects. Links: http://documentcloud.github.com/backbone/ http://documentcloud.github.com/underscore/

For a bit more information -- Backbone.js and Underscore.js are open source components of DocumentCloud, funded by the Knight Foundation's News Challenge, and are used to build this:

http://cl.ly/3N0Z

... and this:

http://documents.latimes.com/la-county-plastic-bag-ban/

Re: Ask HN: which obscure Github projects have you found useful?

#12

Post by bmelton » Tue, Nov 23, 2010, 11:35 PM UTC

What.js

https://github.com/entmike/What -- I've been playing with this, written by a buddy of mine. It's a Node.js-based application server, complete with an HttpServlet implementation.

Re: Ask HN: which obscure Github projects have you found useful?

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Post by amanuel » Tue, Nov 23, 2010, 11:54 PM UTC

AppSales-Mobile to an amazing and well supported find to track your iOS app sales. https://github.com/omz/AppSales-Mobile

On the Mac Brotherbard's Gitx fork is very cool. https://github.com/brotherbard/gitx

GitFlow - takes your Git skills to the next level. https://github.com/nvie/gitflow

Re: Ask HN: which obscure Github projects have you found useful?

#14

Post by alanh » Wed, Nov 24, 2010, 12:21 AM UTC

qlmarkdown. It enables OS X to show (pretty/formatted) Markdown documents in Quick Look.

I also forked something called Add-Another for replicating parts of web forms (when you need to collect 0-n things from a user, e.g. emergency contacts, images, etc.)