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Ask HN: What open source project is your pride and joy?

27 points by seamusabshere 13y ago

Maybe you've authored or contributed to 10 projects - which one is special?

seamusabshere 13y ago
don't be shy
seamusabshere 13y ago
ok, i'll go first: i love https://github.com/seamusabshere/upsert https://github.com/seamusabshere/upsert because it seems like a new idea and https://github.com/seamusabshere/fuzzy_match https://github.com/seamusabshere/fuzzy_match because it feels like i've combined string similarity and array enumeration to make something truly useful.
erezsh 13y ago
I'll bite. I wrote a a parsing library for python on top of PLY, that provides many high-level features such as EBNF syntax and automatic AST creation, and the trees a query-able with CSS-like syntax. It's on github and I get immense joy for every little star it gets (https://github.com/erezsh/plyplus https://github.com/erezsh/plyplus)
- seamusabshere 13y ago
  thank you for sharing!
ozh 13y ago
https://github.com/YOURLS/YOURLS https://github.com/YOURLS/YOURLS - a self hosted URL shortener in PHP
- seamusabshere 13y ago
  love it
- gesman 13y ago
  I want to finally find time to put it on my domain: http://c.gg http://c.gg Q: can I made certain links password-protected?
bmaeser 13y ago
http://bmaeser.github.io/iptables-boilerplate/ http://bmaeser.github.io/iptables-boilerplate/ iptables-boilerplate is a set of predefined firewall rules that are typically used on "webhosts".
mattl 13y ago
http://libre.fm http://libre.fm -- yeah, the UI could use some work (current work in progress: http://i.imgur.com/2P9ZDx6.png http://i.imgur.com/2P9ZDx6.png) but it has a bunch of users (~130k, and we have approximately 85 million song listens have passed through the site) -- all the code is here -- https://gitorious.org/foocorp/gnu-fm/source/b4d50d2ca4dd456dff86561a3a668357580d95dc https://gitorious.org/foocorp/gnu-fm/source/b4d50d2ca4dd456d...:
- feralmoan 13y ago
  That's crazy, well done
kennethtilton 13y ago
Cells!: https://github.com/kennytilton/cells/wiki https://github.com/kennytilton/cells/wiki rah-rah: http://smuglispweeny.blogspot.com/2008/02/cells-manifesto.html http://smuglispweeny.blogspot.com/2008/02/cells-manifesto.ht... The latest buzzword is Functional Reactive Programming. Well, latest three buzzwords.
japhyr 13y ago
I'm writing an open curriculum for learning Python, aimed at people who have never programmed before. The student-facing page is at http://introtopython.org http://introtopython.org, and the project page is at https://github.com/ehmatthes/intro_programming https://github.com/ehmatthes/intro_programming. I started revising the curriculum for a class I teach each fall, and then realized I could just as easily turn it into an open resource. Now even though the class is over, I can't stop working on it. If anyone is interested, I'd love to have some professional eyes on some of the code samples, and I'd love some help writing exercises and challenges. It's still a young project, but I'm happy to hear feedback.
baruch 13y ago
It used to be mostly the xmms-volnorm: https://github.com/baruch/xmms-volnorm https://github.com/baruch/xmms-volnorm Nowadays I'm working on several disk related projects: https://github.com/baruch/diskscan https://github.com/baruch/diskscan https://github.com/baruch/disksurvey https://github.com/baruch/disksurvey https://github.com/baruch/libscsicmd https://github.com/baruch/libscsicmd
bennyg 13y ago
libHN and my HackerNews client for iOS. - libHN: https://github.com/bennyguitar/libHN https://github.com/bennyguitar/libHN - News/YC: https://github.com/bennyguitar/News-YC---iPhone https://github.com/bennyguitar/News-YC---iPhone I love contributing to this community, but the website on mobile is not great at all. I love using Alien Blue for Reddit, so I decided to make a beautiful app to read and contribute to the community for iPhone. I started with just the reader - to view links and comments. However, just recently I made libHN as a wrapper of HackerNews API calls and then the app now uses that to be a portal to HackerNews. The app is an absolute joy to use now, if I may so myself! Right now, it's gotten about 3,000+ downloads from the App Store. I don't track anything, so no idea on daily users. I just launched the pro version with the ability to login/vote/reply/submit for $0.99 two days ago. However, you can build from source and get it from free ;)
feralmoan 13y ago
https://bip.io https://bip.io (Billion Instructions per I/O) - its a framework for creating ephemeral endpoints ontop of graph based message pipelines. You can orchestrate and share these graphs (kind of like micro-workflows) to automate tasks, serve content, run an app... that sort of thing. I love it, even if no-one 'gets it' and has zero traction, working in this problem space is very satisfying and always a challenge :) albeit it sometimes overwhelmingly complex
C0d3r 13y ago
This project helped me learn python, and ultimately ended up getting a job with python, I think that this project and the people who motivated me to build this, made me the python developer I am today :). https://github.com/LuRsT/Pendium https://github.com/LuRsT/Pendium
ojjzhna 13y ago
"locally grown" GPL'd scripts (general utils); most bash, some perl; bash function library Want to share these simple, general utilities, handy tools, or convenience wrappers - most bash, some perl. Categories: script-infrastructure libraries, text filtering, log creation/parsing, simple network-related, regex, time, mail, cygwin, latex, jobs, processes, pathname, file or file-archive related, m4, make, system, and backup: Been writing shell scripts since late 80s, still humble, and learning; appreciate constructive code review. http://TRodman.com/scripts http://TRodman.com/scripts (~400k tarball w/installer) -- Tom Linux/devops scripting admin for HIRE; resume/skill assessment: http://TRodman.com http://TRodman.com
- bliti 13y ago
  Hi Tom, It would be nice if you put the programs up on github, bitbucket or alternative. If you need help doing so, let me know. My email is in my profile.
  - ojjzhna 13y ago
    scripts also here: http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/uqjau http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/uqjau
bliti 13y ago
I'm currently developing one to scratch my own itch. I had a problem of sharing data between embedded devices. My search for a solution led me to find out that there was no simple API to simply interchange data between devices. Less so in an Open Source variant. So I wrote a tiny Django based API that allows embedded devices share data through HTTP calls. What is this good for? Say you have a RaspberryPi-based weather station with internet access. With one API call your an share your data (raw or processed) with any other device. Since its open source, you can run your own little closed network. Imagine having hundreds of mini weather stations sharing data over the web like this. It works for any device that has access to the internet. Even if its through a host connection (If you have an Arduino connected to a laptop through serial. It can make the HTTP calls through a client script/library I'm including, too.) Here is the github repo: https://github.com/bliti/bbedy https://github.com/bliti/bbedy The program runs locally, but has not been setup for deployment. I have not written the documentation for it. Should be up and running by December 2013.
sheetjs 13y ago
Is "All of them" an acceptable answer? In particular, http://sheetjs.github.io/js-xls/ http://sheetjs.github.io/js-xls/ and http://sheetjs.github.io/js-xlsx/ http://sheetjs.github.io/js-xlsx/ (which really should have been one; due to licensing concerns, they started as two projects and I hope to merge them at one point)
valar_m 13y ago
https://github.com/LPology/Simple-Ajax-Uploader https://github.com/LPology/Simple-Ajax-Uploader - A Javascript plugin for cross-browser ajax file uploading. A lot of my users are still running IE7/IE8, so I've spent a great deal of time researching and tinkering over the past two years to try to achieve a uniform experience in older browsers, even with modern features like progress bars and multiple uploads.
davyjones 13y ago
My own tool that I built to scratch my own itch. PGXplorer (pgxplorer.com). I threw in features that I couldn't find in PGAdmin3 (grouping, easy filter, windowing, pivoting). I use both these tool in tandem.
krapp 13y ago
My most (only) popular (relatively, for me) repo - a perceptual hasher for php https://github.com/kennethrapp/phasher https://github.com/kennethrapp/phasher The project I personally have the most fun with is https://github.com/kennethrapp/embedbug https://github.com/kennethrapp/embedbug, a page scraper and profiler that I built to run a threaded feed generator which is still very much a work in progress (http://precis.gopagoda.com/ http://precis.gopagoda.com/) - the only reason that isn't open sourced yet is it's still terrible. Crazy fun to play with but terrible.
brotchie 13y ago
https://github.com/brotchie/Parcoa https://github.com/brotchie/Parcoa Parser combinators for Objective-C. I wrote this ~10-11 months ago because there were no internal-DSL based parser combinators available for Objective-C. I'm not sure if the landscape has changed since then! Performance-wise the resulting parsers are SLOOOOW. I have created a branch that uses ranges instead of immutable strings, but have yet to merge it with master. I originally designed it as a replacement parser for NUI (https://github.com/tombenner/nui https://github.com/tombenner/nui) but the performance wasn't up to scratch compared with NUI's tailored regular expression based parser.
chris_va 13y ago
https://github.com/chrisvana/repobuild https://github.com/chrisvana/repobuild I use it to build all of my other projects.
stevekemp 13y ago
A console-based mail-client with Lua scripting. It isn't the most popular project I've ever created, but it is damn useful to me and surprisingly powerful: http://lumail.org/ http://lumail.org/ My runner-up project would be the host automation tool, written in Perl, Slaughter: http://steve.org.uk/Software/slaughter/ http://steve.org.uk/Software/slaughter/ (That will eventually move to slaughter.io.)
nerdklers 13y ago
That would be my project Git Pretty Stats https://github.com/modess/git-pretty-stats https://github.com/modess/git-pretty-stats, self hosted git statistics.
eliben 13y ago
pycparser (https://github.com/eliben/pycparser https://github.com/eliben/pycparser) - a complete front-end for C99 in pure Python. Used in production by tools like cffi.
gault8121 13y ago
http://quill.org http://quill.org Interactive English grammar lessons. https://github.com/empirical-org/quill/issues?state=open https://github.com/empirical-org/quill/issues?state=open We're currently developing Quill, and we are looking to partner with other FOSS developers. You can reach me at Peter at Quill dot Org
horofx 13y ago
https://github.com/carrierwaveuploader/carrierwave https://github.com/carrierwaveuploader/carrierwave <3 Best solution for web file uploads in ruby
vram22 13y ago
xtopdf. I wouldn't exactly call it my pride and joy :-), but I've been working on it for a while now, and it has been found useful by some people / organizations, including packtpub.com, softwarefreedom.org, esri.nl . xtopdf is a Python toolkit for PDF creation. It uses Reportlab under the hood. (Thanks to the Reportlab team for great work.) xtopdf provides a somewhat higher-level and simpler interface. Has some support for, as input formats: text, DBF, CSV, TSV, XLS, MSAccess, ODBC, (via standard ODBC, pyodbc or pypyodbc), SQLAlchemy, MongoDB, DOCX. It can be used both to create composite PDF reports (for business or other organizations), from any combination of the supported input formats, and to create PDF ebooks from text or XML content. It is both a library and a set of end-user tools, including some command-line, web (Flask, Bottle) and GUI (wxPython) ones. xtopdf links: A presentation about xtopdf on http://slid.es http://slid.es ; http://slid.es/vasudevram/xtopdf http://slid.es/vasudevram/xtopdf xtopdf on my Bitbucket account: https://bitbucket.org/vasudevram/xtopdf https://bitbucket.org/vasudevram/xtopdf xtopdf on SourceForge (older version): http://sourceforge.net/projects/xtopdf http://sourceforge.net/projects/xtopdf Article about using xtopdf, written for Packt: http://packtpub.com/article/Using_xtopdf http://packtpub.com/article/Using_xtopdf Posts about xtopdf on my blog: http://jugad2.blogspot.com/search/label/xtopdf http://jugad2.blogspot.com/search/label/xtopdf I'm always interested in suggestions for new features.
- vram22 13y ago
  Forgot to mention: xtopdf is cross-platform (), works on Linux, Windows (and Mac OS X, at least if mac.softpedia.com is right). Haven't tested it on Macs, but have on Windows and Linux, for many versions of Python 2.x, from 2.2 through 2.7. () Except for a few platform-specific features such as ODBC.
gesman 13y ago
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27 points by seamusabshere 13y ago

Maybe you've authored or contributed to 10 projects - which one is special?

seamusabshere 13y ago

don't be shy

seamusabshere 13y ago

ok, i'll go first: i love https://github.com/seamusabshere/upsert https://github.com/seamusabshere/upsert because it seems like a new idea and https://github.com/seamusabshere/fuzzy_match https://github.com/seamusabshere/fuzzy_match because it feels like i've combined string similarity and array enumeration to make something truly useful.

erezsh 13y ago

I'll bite. I wrote a a parsing library for python on top of PLY, that provides many high-level features such as EBNF syntax and automatic AST creation, and the trees a query-able with CSS-like syntax. It's on github and I get immense joy for every little star it gets (https://github.com/erezsh/plyplus https://github.com/erezsh/plyplus)

seamusabshere 13y ago
thank you for sharing!

ozh 13y ago

https://github.com/YOURLS/YOURLS https://github.com/YOURLS/YOURLS - a self hosted URL shortener in PHP

seamusabshere 13y ago
love it
gesman 13y ago
I want to finally find time to put it on my domain: http://c.gg http://c.gg Q: can I made certain links password-protected?

bmaeser 13y ago

http://bmaeser.github.io/iptables-boilerplate/ http://bmaeser.github.io/iptables-boilerplate/ iptables-boilerplate is a set of predefined firewall rules that are typically used on "webhosts".

mattl 13y ago

http://libre.fm http://libre.fm -- yeah, the UI could use some work (current work in progress: http://i.imgur.com/2P9ZDx6.png http://i.imgur.com/2P9ZDx6.png) but it has a bunch of users (~130k, and we have approximately 85 million song listens have passed through the site) -- all the code is here -- https://gitorious.org/foocorp/gnu-fm/source/b4d50d2ca4dd456dff86561a3a668357580d95dc https://gitorious.org/foocorp/gnu-fm/source/b4d50d2ca4dd456d...:

feralmoan 13y ago
That's crazy, well done

kennethtilton 13y ago

Cells!: https://github.com/kennytilton/cells/wiki https://github.com/kennytilton/cells/wiki rah-rah: http://smuglispweeny.blogspot.com/2008/02/cells-manifesto.html http://smuglispweeny.blogspot.com/2008/02/cells-manifesto.ht... The latest buzzword is Functional Reactive Programming. Well, latest three buzzwords.

japhyr 13y ago

I'm writing an open curriculum for learning Python, aimed at people who have never programmed before. The student-facing page is at http://introtopython.org http://introtopython.org, and the project page is at https://github.com/ehmatthes/intro_programming https://github.com/ehmatthes/intro_programming. I started revising the curriculum for a class I teach each fall, and then realized I could just as easily turn it into an open resource. Now even though the class is over, I can't stop working on it. If anyone is interested, I'd love to have some professional eyes on some of the code samples, and I'd love some help writing exercises and challenges. It's still a young project, but I'm happy to hear feedback.

baruch 13y ago

It used to be mostly the xmms-volnorm: https://github.com/baruch/xmms-volnorm https://github.com/baruch/xmms-volnorm Nowadays I'm working on several disk related projects: https://github.com/baruch/diskscan https://github.com/baruch/diskscan https://github.com/baruch/disksurvey https://github.com/baruch/disksurvey https://github.com/baruch/libscsicmd https://github.com/baruch/libscsicmd

bennyg 13y ago

libHN and my HackerNews client for iOS. - libHN: https://github.com/bennyguitar/libHN https://github.com/bennyguitar/libHN - News/YC: https://github.com/bennyguitar/News-YC---iPhone https://github.com/bennyguitar/News-YC---iPhone I love contributing to this community, but the website on mobile is not great at all. I love using Alien Blue for Reddit, so I decided to make a beautiful app to read and contribute to the community for iPhone. I started with just the reader - to view links and comments. However, just recently I made libHN as a wrapper of HackerNews API calls and then the app now uses that to be a portal to HackerNews. The app is an absolute joy to use now, if I may so myself! Right now, it's gotten about 3,000+ downloads from the App Store. I don't track anything, so no idea on daily users. I just launched the pro version with the ability to login/vote/reply/submit for $0.99 two days ago. However, you can build from source and get it from free ;)

feralmoan 13y ago

https://bip.io https://bip.io (Billion Instructions per I/O) - its a framework for creating ephemeral endpoints ontop of graph based message pipelines. You can orchestrate and share these graphs (kind of like micro-workflows) to automate tasks, serve content, run an app... that sort of thing. I love it, even if no-one 'gets it' and has zero traction, working in this problem space is very satisfying and always a challenge :) albeit it sometimes overwhelmingly complex

C0d3r 13y ago

This project helped me learn python, and ultimately ended up getting a job with python, I think that this project and the people who motivated me to build this, made me the python developer I am today :). https://github.com/LuRsT/Pendium https://github.com/LuRsT/Pendium

ojjzhna 13y ago

"locally grown" GPL'd scripts (general utils); most bash, some perl; bash function library Want to share these simple, general utilities, handy tools, or convenience wrappers - most bash, some perl. Categories: script-infrastructure libraries, text filtering, log creation/parsing, simple network-related, regex, time, mail, cygwin, latex, jobs, processes, pathname, file or file-archive related, m4, make, system, and backup: Been writing shell scripts since late 80s, still humble, and learning; appreciate constructive code review. http://TRodman.com/scripts http://TRodman.com/scripts (~400k tarball w/installer) -- Tom Linux/devops scripting admin for HIRE; resume/skill assessment: http://TRodman.com http://TRodman.com

bliti 13y ago
Hi Tom, It would be nice if you put the programs up on github, bitbucket or alternative. If you need help doing so, let me know. My email is in my profile.
- ojjzhna 13y ago
  scripts also here: http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/uqjau http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/uqjau

bliti 13y ago

I'm currently developing one to scratch my own itch. I had a problem of sharing data between embedded devices. My search for a solution led me to find out that there was no simple API to simply interchange data between devices. Less so in an Open Source variant. So I wrote a tiny Django based API that allows embedded devices share data through HTTP calls. What is this good for? Say you have a RaspberryPi-based weather station with internet access. With one API call your an share your data (raw or processed) with any other device. Since its open source, you can run your own little closed network. Imagine having hundreds of mini weather stations sharing data over the web like this. It works for any device that has access to the internet. Even if its through a host connection (If you have an Arduino connected to a laptop through serial. It can make the HTTP calls through a client script/library I'm including, too.) Here is the github repo: https://github.com/bliti/bbedy https://github.com/bliti/bbedy The program runs locally, but has not been setup for deployment. I have not written the documentation for it. Should be up and running by December 2013.

sheetjs 13y ago

Is "All of them" an acceptable answer? In particular, http://sheetjs.github.io/js-xls/ http://sheetjs.github.io/js-xls/ and http://sheetjs.github.io/js-xlsx/ http://sheetjs.github.io/js-xlsx/ (which really should have been one; due to licensing concerns, they started as two projects and I hope to merge them at one point)

valar_m 13y ago

https://github.com/LPology/Simple-Ajax-Uploader https://github.com/LPology/Simple-Ajax-Uploader - A Javascript plugin for cross-browser ajax file uploading. A lot of my users are still running IE7/IE8, so I've spent a great deal of time researching and tinkering over the past two years to try to achieve a uniform experience in older browsers, even with modern features like progress bars and multiple uploads.

davyjones 13y ago

My own tool that I built to scratch my own itch. PGXplorer (pgxplorer.com). I threw in features that I couldn't find in PGAdmin3 (grouping, easy filter, windowing, pivoting). I use both these tool in tandem.

krapp 13y ago

My most (only) popular (relatively, for me) repo - a perceptual hasher for php https://github.com/kennethrapp/phasher https://github.com/kennethrapp/phasher The project I personally have the most fun with is https://github.com/kennethrapp/embedbug https://github.com/kennethrapp/embedbug, a page scraper and profiler that I built to run a threaded feed generator which is still very much a work in progress (http://precis.gopagoda.com/ http://precis.gopagoda.com/) - the only reason that isn't open sourced yet is it's still terrible. Crazy fun to play with but terrible.

brotchie 13y ago

https://github.com/brotchie/Parcoa https://github.com/brotchie/Parcoa Parser combinators for Objective-C. I wrote this ~10-11 months ago because there were no internal-DSL based parser combinators available for Objective-C. I'm not sure if the landscape has changed since then! Performance-wise the resulting parsers are SLOOOOW. I have created a branch that uses ranges instead of immutable strings, but have yet to merge it with master. I originally designed it as a replacement parser for NUI (https://github.com/tombenner/nui https://github.com/tombenner/nui) but the performance wasn't up to scratch compared with NUI's tailored regular expression based parser.

chris_va 13y ago

https://github.com/chrisvana/repobuild https://github.com/chrisvana/repobuild I use it to build all of my other projects.

stevekemp 13y ago

A console-based mail-client with Lua scripting. It isn't the most popular project I've ever created, but it is damn useful to me and surprisingly powerful: http://lumail.org/ http://lumail.org/ My runner-up project would be the host automation tool, written in Perl, Slaughter: http://steve.org.uk/Software/slaughter/ http://steve.org.uk/Software/slaughter/ (That will eventually move to slaughter.io.)

nerdklers 13y ago

That would be my project Git Pretty Stats https://github.com/modess/git-pretty-stats https://github.com/modess/git-pretty-stats, self hosted git statistics.

eliben 13y ago

pycparser (https://github.com/eliben/pycparser https://github.com/eliben/pycparser) - a complete front-end for C99 in pure Python. Used in production by tools like cffi.

gault8121 13y ago

http://quill.org http://quill.org Interactive English grammar lessons. https://github.com/empirical-org/quill/issues?state=open https://github.com/empirical-org/quill/issues?state=open We're currently developing Quill, and we are looking to partner with other FOSS developers. You can reach me at Peter at Quill dot Org

horofx 13y ago

https://github.com/carrierwaveuploader/carrierwave https://github.com/carrierwaveuploader/carrierwave <3 Best solution for web file uploads in ruby

vram22 13y ago

xtopdf. I wouldn't exactly call it my pride and joy :-), but I've been working on it for a while now, and it has been found useful by some people / organizations, including packtpub.com, softwarefreedom.org, esri.nl . xtopdf is a Python toolkit for PDF creation. It uses Reportlab under the hood. (Thanks to the Reportlab team for great work.) xtopdf provides a somewhat higher-level and simpler interface. Has some support for, as input formats: text, DBF, CSV, TSV, XLS, MSAccess, ODBC, (via standard ODBC, pyodbc or pypyodbc), SQLAlchemy, MongoDB, DOCX. It can be used both to create composite PDF reports (for business or other organizations), from any combination of the supported input formats, and to create PDF ebooks from text or XML content. It is both a library and a set of end-user tools, including some command-line, web (Flask, Bottle) and GUI (wxPython) ones. xtopdf links: A presentation about xtopdf on http://slid.es http://slid.es ; http://slid.es/vasudevram/xtopdf http://slid.es/vasudevram/xtopdf xtopdf on my Bitbucket account: https://bitbucket.org/vasudevram/xtopdf https://bitbucket.org/vasudevram/xtopdf xtopdf on SourceForge (older version): http://sourceforge.net/projects/xtopdf http://sourceforge.net/projects/xtopdf Article about using xtopdf, written for Packt: http://packtpub.com/article/Using_xtopdf http://packtpub.com/article/Using_xtopdf Posts about xtopdf on my blog: http://jugad2.blogspot.com/search/label/xtopdf http://jugad2.blogspot.com/search/label/xtopdf I'm always interested in suggestions for new features.

vram22 13y ago
Forgot to mention: xtopdf is cross-platform (), works on Linux, Windows (and Mac OS X, at least if mac.softpedia.com is right). Haven't tested it on Macs, but have on Windows and Linux, for many versions of Python 2.x, from 2.2 through 2.7. () Except for a few platform-specific features such as ODBC.

gesman 13y ago

http://www.bitcoinway.com/ http://www.bitcoinway.com/