Ask HN: What 'gem' did you find on GitHub?

#1

Post by aluciani » Tue, Sep 14, 2021, 4:54 PM UTC

What opensource project did you find on GitHub that got you excited recently and think others should know about.

Re: Ask HN: What 'gem' did you find on GitHub?

#2

Post by Isammoc » Wed, Sep 15, 2021, 6:08 AM UTC

PdfTk-Builder: a GUI for pdftk for windows. My partner is stuck with windows for work (and not really a techie) so, this is perfect.

Youtube-music: love vanilla YouTube music, but automatic pauses break my flow and ads are very aggressive. This electron port allow me to have an AdBlock and remove pauses. Bonus, I can use my media keys directly from my keyboard.

Links: * https://github.com/LandrixSoftware/PDFTK-Builder * https://github.com/th-ch/youtube-music

Re: Ask HN: What 'gem' did you find on GitHub?

#3

Post by joshxyz » Wed, Sep 15, 2021, 7:10 AM UTC

uwebsockets.js a great webframework for nodejs, comes with websocket support. Replaces fastify, express, koa, api, ws.

Esbuild and postcss, replaces webpack.

Re: Ask HN: What 'gem' did you find on GitHub?

#4

Post by aluciani » Fri, Sep 17, 2021, 12:54 PM UTC

Isammoc wrote: post #2

PdfTk-Builder: a GUI for pdftk for windows. My partner is stuck with windows for work (and not really a techie) so, this is perfect. Youtube-music: love vanilla YouTube music, but automatic pauses break my flow and ads are very aggressive. This electron port allow me to have an AdBlock and remove pauses. Bonus, I can use my media keys directly from my keyboard. Links: * https://github.com/LandrixSoftware/PDFTK-Builde…

Awesome thanks for sharing and I will check them out.

Re: Ask HN: What 'gem' did you find on GitHub?

#5

Post by aluciani » Fri, Sep 17, 2021, 12:55 PM UTC

joshxyz wrote: post #3

uwebsockets.js a great webframework for nodejs, comes with websocket support. Replaces fastify, express, koa, api, ws. Esbuild and postcss, replaces webpack.

Sweet, sound interesting. will look for it.