Plan 9 in general.
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#22temporal.io
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#23Windirstat Sysinternals tools Windbg
Shout out for ProcMon from the Sysinternals tools. It grants you diagnostic superpowers. "File Not Found" error w/ no filename shown-- no problem.
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#24GnuPG/PGP and the web of trust[0]. A lot of things I see blockchain being used for today (e.g. NFTs) seems like it would be better solved using standard OpenPGP signatures with no backing chain.
Additionally, as machine-generated content proliferates, I think having services use something like the web of trust concept for membership would be super powerful. The problem is, of course, the terrible UX of cryptographic signatures. But I think there's a lot of opportunity for the group that makes it easy to use.
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#25https://github.com/webui-dev/webui is a lightweight alternative to webview/electron/tauri
Dumb question but I thought tauri was the lightweight alternative to electron. Did I remember that incorrectly?
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#26Bottle.py: uber-fast and simple python web microframework, about 3x faster, saner, and more memory-efficient than Flask in my experience: https://github.com/bottlepy/bottle
Fossil: distributed version control and much more in a single executable, from the creators of SQLite: https://fossil-scm.org/
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#27Plan 9 in general.
I keep hearing about it and its influence, but I can't really figure out if it's active or dead or even If I can use it on a virtual machine or so. 9p.io doesn't seem to even load on my machine
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#29Vopono (https://github.com/jamesmcm/vopono):
"vopono is a tool to run applications through VPN tunnels via temporary network namespaces. This allows you to run only a handful of applications through different VPNs simultaneously, whilst keeping your main connection as normal.
vopono includes built-in killswitches for both Wireguard and OpenVPN."
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#30Haxe - no idea why it isn't more popular.