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Theodor Marcu@theodormarcu
1/11/2023

Programmers of FC: What's your favorite niche open source project?

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Theodor Marcu@theodormarcu
1/11/2023

I'll start: I have a lot of deep appreciation for "changesets". It makes one of the hardest and most annoying parts of shipping NPM packages easy to wrap your head around.

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Joe Blau@joeblau
1/11/2023

gitignore.io, because I wrote it.

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maxpetretta.eth@maxpetretta
1/11/2023

zmk.dev, firmware for wireless mechanical keyboards that’s reliable and full-featured

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maxpetretta.eth@maxpetretta
1/11/2023

Also it’s less niche but fish-shell. zsh gets lots of love but fish has all the best features included out-of-the-box

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Alex Loukissas@futureartist
1/11/2023

not sure whether it's niche, but few people know of jotai and it's an excellent piece of software

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forager@forager
1/11/2023

Right now I’d go with polars https://www.pola.rs

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carlosdp.eth@carlosdp
1/11/2023

Not really niche anymore, but Blender

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1/11/2023

zsh-autosuggestions btdu periods (for PostgreSQL) ephemeral_pg

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tim 🥝@timdaub
1/11/2023

anything from sindresorhus. Without them I‘d be nothing

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Jake Casey@jakeacasey
1/11/2023

https://github.com/RonSijm/ButtFish Last year a professional chess player was accused of cheating. Due to the measures taken (metal detectors, etc) a chess streamer joked that he must've had a butt plug transmitting computer moves to him. This is the code for transmitting stockfish moves to a butt plug.

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maurelian@maurelian
1/11/2023

I’m a big fan of lazygit

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1/11/2023

https://kindelia.org/ for computational-nerd interest and https://github.com/subconsciousnetwork/noosphere for knowledge-nerd interest