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Re: Ask HN: What underrated open source project deserves more recognition?

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This has been posted a few times already, but I cannot tell you how life changing Paperless NGX is for organizing PDFs. As someone who wrangles all of the insurance and bills for my house, this open source software is so damn good. https://docs.paperless-ngx.com/ I maintain Bash script to quickly set it up locally on Linux with Podman. Give it a spin if you want to kick the tires. https://github.com/jdoss/ppngx

my script also has paperless-ngx included https://github.com/ei23com/diy-smart-home

Re: Ask HN: What underrated open source project deserves more recognition?

#102

I discovered these 3 amazing projects recently: Cryptpad, essentially google docs/sheets/forms e2e encrypted. It does include collaboration. https://github.com/cryptpad/cryptpad Immich, google photos self hostable, with share options https://github.com/immich-app/immich Nginxproxymanager manages certificates and proxies to self hosted stuff through nginx https://github.com/NginxProxyManager/nginx-proxy-manager Great…

I have a bash script for self hosting (mostly docker services). https://github.com/ei23com/diy-smart-home

I can recommend traefik as proxy too

Re: Ask HN: What underrated open source project deserves more recognition?

#106
post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You might want to have a look in stow. https://www.gnu.org/software/stow/ I just stumble across dotstow which adds a git layer on top of it https://github.com/clayrisser/dotstow

I've looked at it before. Looking at the system I'm writing this comment on, my dotfiles from my repo are ~/.config/alacritty/alacritty.toml, ~/.config/nushell/{config.nu,env.nu}, ~/.tmux.conf, and ~/.gitconfig. I'm not sure if I just use far fewer dotfiles than average, and I know this is a matter of personal taste, but it's just not obvious to me why I'd want to add a tool to symlink five things once. Moreover, mos…

I have a work mac, work linux, and home mac. I want the same terminal-based development environment on all of them, but each requires just a little bit of customization.

For example, the .gitconfig for work is different from home (e.g. my username/email). Ditto for my .ssh/config and my shell aliases.

I also use Nix to manage all my tools, and the home-manager configuration is slightly different between mac & linux due to platform support.

I've gone through a few iterations of home-built solutions, including extending homeshick[1], before discovering YADM which implemented everything I had done but better.

[1] https://github.com/andsens/homeshick

Re: Ask HN: What underrated open source project deserves more recognition?

#107
post #34

Postgraphile. Postgres + graphql. It really solves all the negative aspects of graphql. Also, incredibly performant. Their v5 release is also a pretty interesting piece of tech. https://postgraphile.org/

I played with this a bit years ago when it was still called PostgraphQL. My biggest issue with it was that there didn't seem to be a recommended (or even suggested) version control method for things like functions. Using a standard migration tool to update functions seems like hell, so I gave up on using it. Looking through the docs, I still see no mention of version control or even migrations at all. Is this somethi…

It’d be like any other database schema change. We commit all schema migrations to git and have cicd run them.

Re: Ask HN: What underrated open source project deserves more recognition?

#108
post #52

Cosmopolitan https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan and https://justine.lol/cosmopolitan/index.html Some genius realized that you can actually embed valid win32 programs inside valid posix shell scripts, and found a way to make a C cross-platform solution out of it, meaning that you can write C programs that compile to a single executable that will run on (quoting the site) Linux + Mac + Windows + FreeBSD + OpenBSD + N…

Agreed. I'm trying to use it at https://github.com/wekan/wekanstudio . Contributions very welcome.

Re: Ask HN: What underrated open source project deserves more recognition?

#110
There are so many...

atldotnet - Extremely versatile audio tagging library for C#

LocalSend - UI Tool to share files everywhere

Thorsten-Voice - A FOSS Voice Dataset for german language (e.g. coqui-tts)

LVGL - Light versatile embedded graphics library

zincsearch - ElasticSearch compatible Fulltext engine

Obtainium - Open Source Android App Updater

OCRmyPDF - OCR Layer for PDFs

FunKey-S - Open Hardware / Software Gaming Handheld (incl. PCB and Buildroot OS)

logseq - Personal Information Manager (like Obsidian)

fq - jq for binary formats

OperationResult - Rust style error handling for C#

BoofCV - Java Computer Vision library

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