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

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Post by uneekname »

McDyver wrote: post #55
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…

I would also mention Street Complete, as the companion app to contribute all that data. https://github.com/streetcomplete/StreetComplete

StreetComplete is fabulous, and another surveying app worth mentioning is Every Door [0] which is specifically focused on updating business and other POI details.

[0] https://every-door.app/

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

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Post by uneekname »

blemasle wrote: post #35
saghm wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've never doubted that there are existing solutions for dot files that do everything I need, but I've yet to find one that doesn't take more work for me to swap to than continuing to just clone a git repo an symlink maybe half a dozen things the once or twice a year that I happen to set up a new machine.

You might want to have a look in stow. https://www.gnu.org/software/stow/ I just stumble across dotstow which adds a git layer on top of it https://github.com/clayrisser/dotstow

stow has worked really nicely for managing my dotfiles. Here are two blog posts that helped me get my workflow down:

https://alexpearce.me/2016/02/managing-dotfiles-with-stow/

https://bastian.rieck.me/blog/2019/dotfiles_stow/

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

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Post by em-bee »

tetris11 wrote: post #81
em-bee wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

it's there (and on gitlab, where i prefer to work), but there are so many projects on there, that doesn't really help discovery.

link please

please email me. see profile.

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

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Post by saghm »

blemasle wrote: post #35
saghm wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've never doubted that there are existing solutions for dot files that do everything I need, but I've yet to find one that doesn't take more work for me to swap to than continuing to just clone a git repo an symlink maybe half a dozen things the once or twice a year that I happen to set up a new machine.

You might want to have a look in stow. https://www.gnu.org/software/stow/ I just stumble across dotstow which adds a git layer on top of it https://github.com/clayrisser/dotstow

I've looked at it before. Looking at the system I'm writing this comment on, my dotfiles from my repo are ~/.config/alacritty/alacritty.toml, ~/.config/nushell/{config.nu,env.nu}, ~/.tmux.conf, and ~/.gitconfig. I'm not sure if I just use far fewer dotfiles than average, and I know this is a matter of personal taste, but it's just not obvious to me why I'd want to add a tool to symlink five things once. Moreover, most of the jobs I've had give me a Macbook to work on rather than Linux, so that also would require me to either manually install `stow` or move getting homebrew set up to _before _setting_ up my dotfiles, which seems a bit backwards to me given that my my shell config is where I store any configuration for stuff like that.

I'm starting to wonder if I just have a very vanilla dotfile workflow compared to what some other people use. This would surprise me a bit, given how I tend to go overboard in custom configuration for most things, but it definitely feels like my experience isn't enough for me to understand why specialized tooling for dotfiles is needed.

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

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Post by qbbsh »

steph-123 wrote: post #63

x-cmd is a great CLI that I've been using lately. It's very lightweight (not exceeding 1.1MB), yet packed with numerous features. It provides a range of interactive CLI tools, currently boasting over 100 modules and close to 500 packages.

A awesome project !!!

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

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Post by ramesh1994 »

Fizzadar wrote: post #62
rdtsc wrote: post #19

I like https://github.com/pyinfra-dev/pyinfra . "pyinfra automates infrastructure using Python" Only played with it for a little but it seems well designed an simpler alternative to ansible, chef and other such things.

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 reference files from the machine running pyinfra on the remote hosts? Or would that have to be done indirectly via running shell commands to sync?

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

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Post by lijunhao »

steph-123 wrote: post #63

x-cmd is a great CLI that I've been using lately. It's very lightweight (not exceeding 1.1MB), yet packed with numerous features. It provides a range of interactive CLI tools, currently boasting over 100 modules and close to 500 packages.

55 stars only in Github. I am wondering what's wrong with it.
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