There is a lot of great stuff on Github but it's hard to know where to start looking. I'm wondering if HN had any recommendations for useful tool suites or other noteworthy projects.
Ask HN: which obscure Github projects have you found useful?
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Re: Ask HN: which obscure Github projects have you found useful?
#2I've really enjoyed skimming through other users 'dotfiles' or similarly named repos. It's a great way to find some small tips or shortcuts to make my day to day work more efficient, etc, without reading a long blog post about why some technique is the 'only sane, correct, right, proper way' and you'd have to be crazy to try anything else. I.e. great tips without the commentary.
Re: Ask HN: which obscure Github projects have you found useful?
#3Just in case you missed it, we have an "Explore GitHub" page that should get you started with some repos that you may not have heard of before:
Re: Ask HN: which obscure Github projects have you found useful?
#4I've really enjoyed skimming through other users 'dotfiles' or similarly named repos. It's a great way to find some small tips or shortcuts to make my day to day work more efficient, etc, without reading a long blog post about why some technique is the 'only sane, correct, right, proper way' and you'd have to be crazy to try anything else. I.e. great tips without the commentary.
Lol I found a bug in Ryan Tomayko's dotfiles when he put them up. https://github.com/rtomayko/dotfiles/commit/d462da485294b516...
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#5http://thechangelog.com/ is a great blog to follow for interesting GitHub projects, it also powers parts of the "Explore GitHub" page that @mojombo mentioned.
Re: Ask HN: which obscure Github projects have you found useful?
#6I'm a big fan of zen coding, it's a way of writing HTML and CSS by shortcuts and expanding them, cross-IDE: https://github.com/sergeche/zen-coding it has sped up my html writing considerably.
If you're using Django with a MySQL heavy application, consider django-stored-procedures (written by a colleague of mine) https://github.com/jeroeng/stored-procedures
Re: Ask HN: which obscure Github projects have you found useful?
#7The latest one I discovered is Slidedown: a simple tool to generate HTML slides (with syntax highlighting) from a markdown document.
Came in handy when I had to whip up a presentation for a recent meetup.
Re: Ask HN: which obscure Github projects have you found useful?
#8Just in case you missed it, we have an "Explore GitHub" page that should get you started with some repos that you may not have heard of before: https://github.com/explore
The explore page offers a great snapshot. The search page is totally awesome too (seriously, it works really well) but only when you are looking for something in particular. It feels like there is a mind-boggling amount of potentially useful things sitting there that no one ever knows to play with because the people behind the projects aren't very good at PR or aren't looking for high usage of their product. I guess the main barrier to testing out projects/apps is the difficulty of installation. You have to know you want the product a lot to go through with the effort to get it up and going. I guess that's why recommendations can be a good guide to making sure it's worth the effort.
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#9Not 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:
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#10Gordon;
An open source Flash™ runtime written in pure JavaScript
EXAMPLE: http://paulirish.com/work/gordon/demos/ GIT: https://github.com/tobeytailor/gordon