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Growing in popularity, but still not as famous as it should be: EdgeDB ( https://EdgeDB.com ) * Graph-relational database * Queries return objects linked to other objects through properties, not rows * ... But it's still Postgres under the hood * Open source
Unpopular, at least compared to cars: e-bikes. - costs next to nothing to charge - fast and fun to get around - never pay for parking - cheap maintenance - hauls groceries easily - good exercise
(I only wish I was being sarcastic.)
Turn your Postgres database into a REST API: https://postgrest.org Previous discussions on HN: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=postgrest
Most people know about MediaWiki even if they don't realize they do, because it powers Wikipedia, but I wish more people used it for documentation. You can create highly specialized templates in Lua, and there's a RDBMS extension called Cargo that gives you some limited SQL ability too. With these tools you can build basically an entirely custom CMS on top of the base MW software, while retaining everything that's gr…
As an administrator, I wish MediaWiki had a built-in updater (bonus points if it could be automated).
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The value prop of Sphinx goes down a lot if you're not using reST because you can't use the extensive catalog of directives, such as the ref directive that I mentioned in my first comment. If you must use Markdown then there's not much difference between Sphinx and all the other Markdown-powered SSGs out there. In other words there's not a compelling reason to use Sphinx if you've got to use Markdown. From Sphinx's G…
Myst has parity with most reST features and is equivalent to markdown for users not using those features: https://myst-parser.readthedocs.io/en/v0.13.7/using/syntax.h...
I will have to dig into exactly how much parity we're talking here but if it's very strong parity then I redact my previous statement
Thanks for correcting me!
Sphinx [1] gets my vote. It's the docs system that powers most sites in the Python ecosystem so it probably looks familiar to you. I call it a docs system rather than static site generator because the web is just one of many output targets it supports. To tap into its full power you need to author in a markup that predates Markdown called reStructuredText (reST). It's very similar to Markdown (MD) so it's never bothe…
I've used Sphinx quite a bit, the syntax is a bit fugly. For markdown's [text](url) one uses `text `_ ...
[1] e.g. https://myst-parser.readthedocs.io/en/v0.13.7/using/syntax.h...
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Nix package manager's `nix-shell` is something I wish more people knew about. Nix is gaining some popularity, but people often think of using it has to be a really big commitment, like changing your Linux distro to NixOS or replacing your dotfiles with a Nix-based one (using the Nix package manager). What I wish more people knew was that you don't need to do those things to get value from Nix. Create project specific…
It's good for a c or c++ project where libraries are very environment specific. But most modern languages have their own package/environment managers which makes Nix redundant.