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matisiekpl /

neond

NeonD – my open-source DX-oriented PG Control Plane gained 121 stars

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Srinivasa314 /

ovid

Ovid: A pi extension that makes it record proof its features actually work

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fe18m /

mkpm

MKPM – GNU Make Package Manager

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terse-lang /

terse

The TERSE state language and protocol

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ABTdomain /

dksplit

DKSplit – Fast Word Segmentation for Python

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cookiengineer /

hydra

Experimental multi-head window manager made for programmatic use

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flint-lang /

flintc

The Flint Programming Language

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supernovae-st /

nika

Nika – Intent as Code for AI Workflows

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OtaKit /

otakit

OtaKit – open-source, self-hostable OTA updates for Capacitor apps

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webkul /

inertia

Inertia.js Adapter for WordPress and PHP

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Wasserpuncher /

readme-check

I audited my own eight repos. Half of them lied in the README

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EtherDream /

brpack

Stashing data in WOFF2 color glyphs to get free Brotli decompression via Canvas

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seleniumboot /

selenium-boot

Selenium Boot- a Spring Boot-Style Framework for Selenium Tests in Java

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Limine-Bootloader /

Limine

Limine: Modern, secure, portable, multiprotocol bootloader and boot manager

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itara-project /

itara

Itara – Distributed system topology as an explicit, executable layer

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sadigaxund /

git-resume

Generate, Version and Host your resumé all via GitHub

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titarenko /

OAuth2

OAuth2 is a library for user authentication using OAuth/OAuth2 services

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