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

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Post by Fizzadar » Sat, Mar 16, 2024, 9:47 PM UTC

ramesh1994 wrote: post #97

Fizzadar wrote: post #62

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Thank you for posting this! Happy to answer any questions anyone has :)

I just found about this project from this comment, absolutely excited to try this out. As someone who's never used any of the infrastructure tools, I'm thinking of pyinfra as a way to run shell commands + install dependencies on hosts (declaratively?) on a bunch of hosts via ssh. Inventory is to sort of take a self-defined inventory on a bunch of hosts? One final question on usage, would it be possible to sync or ref…

Missed this comment apologies!

- ops are (mostly) declarative, but some (server.shell) will always execute the command given

- inventory is just that, basically a list of hosts to target plus associated data, docs page: https://docs.pyinfra.com/en/2.x/inventory-data.html

- absolutely for syncing files, check out the files.put and files.template operations (and the files ops in general): https://docs.pyinfra.com/en/2.x/operations/files.html

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

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Post by Fizzadar » Sat, Mar 16, 2024, 9:53 PM UTC

theedwood wrote: post #140

Fizzadar wrote: post #62

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Thank you for posting this! Happy to answer any questions anyone has :)

I’ve used several different IaC tools; Puppet, Ansible, Terraform and Polumi to name a few. What would you say are key differentiators of PyInfra from these existing projects?

Both Terraform and Pulumi differ slightly I think provisioning cloud resources - pyinfra can be used alongside to setup instances/etc, I’ve used the pyinfra/Terraform combo with great success.

For ansible/chef, etc the main reasons/benefits boil down to:

- instant feedback esp on errors, get the stdout/stderr of whatever command pyinfra was executing, there’s no agent or abstraction to hide it

- configure in python rather than yaml+jinja2 mess

- integrate with the whole python package ecosystem

- speed and small overhead as inventories scale

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

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Post by parthjainpj1994 » Sat, Mar 16, 2024, 11:45 PM UTC

uneekname wrote: post #89

landgenoot wrote: post #53

Open streetmap I'm so amazed by the amount of problems that can be solved by using this data. Need to find out the nearest drinking water tap. They got you covered. Need to know how you can enter a particular subway station as a blind person? The data should be there. Including traffic lights with audible feedback. Want to charge your ebike at your destination? Find type of bicycle rack and the availability of power…

Quick plug for the OpenStreetMap community, too. Online or in-person, there are so many active mapping groups. I started one in my city last year and it's been an awesome way to meet with like-minded folks and feel like we're making an impact on others' lives. Check out the OSM Community Index [0], or the (multilingual) Discourse [1], or feel free to reach out to me if you want to learn more about engaging with OSM!…

So i am hearing about Open street map for the first time. Can someone explain a bit more about it and how can i use it in day today life.

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

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Post by jnsnco » Mon, Mar 18, 2024, 11:34 PM UTC

Fireproof

https://use-fireproof.com/

Pure JS embedded Document DB, no setup or config. e2e encryption, CRDT support. Build, prototype, iterate without a backend, plug into any cloud when you’re ready

[disclaimer: I’m part of the team working on this]

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

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Post by ikanny » Tue, Mar 19, 2024, 4:07 AM UTC

webview-bridge https://github.com/gronxb/webview-bridge It's necessary when you build react native app with webview.

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

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Post by whereas445 » Tue, Mar 19, 2024, 4:16 AM UTC

ikanny wrote: post #145

webview-bridge https://github.com/gronxb/webview-bridge It's necessary when you build react native app with webview.

+1 for this. currently using this for my project and it works like a charm!

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

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Post by lardissone » Tue, Mar 19, 2024, 2:05 PM UTC

akavel wrote: post #46

Symphytum https://github.com/giowck/symphytum A small cross-platform personal GUI database app for desktop, with support for images. A modern riff on the idea of MS Access (for those old enough to remember). I think I saw someone claim it's a clone of some Mac app, but I'm not a Mac person so I have no idea if that's true. It's my go-to app when I want to do some shopping research/comparison and collect my results, a…

For macOS/iOS there's a nice database app I use for different things called Collections https://collectionsdb.com

It's really good, I use it with Shortcuts and saves me a bunch of time on small things that I don't want to create an app for this.