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Project mention: 30-seconds-of-code – short, reusable JavaScript code snippets | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-06-23
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devops-exercises
Linux, Jenkins, AWS, SRE, Prometheus, Docker, Python, Ansible, Git, Kubernetes, Terraform, OpenStack, SQL, NoSQL, Azure, GCP, DNS, Elastic, Network, Virtualization. DevOps Interview Questions
Project mention: 10 GitHub Repositories That Will Actually Teach You DevOps in 2026 | dev.to | 2026-05-05github.com/bregman-arie/devops-exercises. 82k stars. Maintained by Arie Bregman, ex-Red Hat.
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But for reading code, scripts, configs, Markdown, YAML, JSON, or anything where your eyes are expected to survive the experience, bat is much nicer.
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Gitea
Git with a cup of tea! Painless self-hosted all-in-one software development service, including Git hosting, code review, team collaboration, package registry and CI/CD
Project mention: Gitea is 10 years old, but official repo is still hosted on GitHub | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-06-02 -
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Project mention: GitLab Announces Workforce Reduction and End of Their Credit Values | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-05-11
What would you suggest as an alternative? Gitlab really sucks in my personal opinion, but what are your experiences with:
Gogs https://gogs.io/ (this IS gitea btw)
Forgejo https://forgejo.org/
Self hosted or cloud hosted. Also excluding Github because, please just fracking don't.
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Project mention: Deep Dive: How Bruno 1.0 Stores API Tests Locally vs. Postman 11.0 Cloud Sync | dev.to | 2026-04-28
After 6 months of benchmarking, case study analysis, and real-world testing, our recommendation is clear: choose Bruno 1.0 if you are an engineering team that values performance, Git integration, and zero vendor lock-in. Our data shows Bruno outperforms Postman 11.0 in every local storage metric: 400ms faster startup for 1000+ test suites, 6x lower storage overhead per test, and zero sync latency. The case study above shows teams can save $2k+ per year in licensing costs and $18k+ per year in engineering time by switching to Bruno. For teams with heavy non-technical collaboration needs, or very small test suites (<100 tests), Postman 11.0’s free tier remains a viable option, but we recommend exporting collections to Bruno for all engineering use cases. The API testing landscape is shifting toward local-first tools to avoid cloud vendor lock-in, and Bruno 1.0 is leading that charge. Try Bruno today: download it from https://github.com/usebruno/bruno, and migrate your Postman collections in minutes using the native import tool.
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Project mention: Dejar una huella: por qué comentar mejora internet para todos | dev.to | 2026-06-19
GitHub CLI (gh) — documentación oficial del CLI para comentar en issues y participar desde la terminal.
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Project mention: My PC Cries Every Morning, But These 8 Startup Apps Are Worth It | dev.to | 2025-11-12
Files: File Explorer's Cooler, Younger Sibling
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logseq
A local-first, non-linear, outliner notebook for organizing and sharing your personal knowledge base. Use it to organize your todo list, to write your journals, or to record your unique life.
Project mention: Cheese Paper: a text editor specifically designed for writing | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-05-30 -
harness
Harness Open Source is an end-to-end developer platform with Source Control Management, CI/CD Pipelines, Hosted Developer Environments, and Artifact Registries. (by harness)
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Project mention: Building a Local AI Code Reviewer with Ollama That Catches Bugs Before Your Team | dev.to | 2026-06-15
For a hook the whole team shares, use husky instead so it lives in the repo. Either way, every git commit now runs the diff past a local model first. Need to skip it for a quick WIP commit? git commit --no-verify.
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Many diff tools, such as delta (https://github.com/dandavison/delta) and the ones built into VS Code and IDEs by JetBrains, can configured to highlight changes within each line (by word) and ignore changes to whitespace. Those features save me a lot of time when I review diffs that include indentation changes or variable renames.
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Project mention: Epic Games announces Lore version control system | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-06-17
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Wiki.js is a modern wiki platform built with Node.js and Vue.js. It uses PostgreSQL for storage, supports multiple editor types (Markdown, WYSIWYG, HTML), and integrates with Git for version-controlled documentation. Current stable version is 2.5. Wiki.js site
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Project mention: Your .env file is probably already in your Git history. The 15-minute audit (and the 5 habits that stop new leaks for good). | dev.to | 2026-06-15
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I'm using Beads for this. It stores data locally via Dolt, gives agents programmatic access, and handles dependencies between tasks. The key commands:
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Project mention: GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-04-27
I had this problem and it turns out it was my oh-my-posh command prompt customization. VS Code injects certain control characters into the output stream for agents to observe events and the theming runs after those mechanics are hooked up so it can interfere. Updating to the latest oh-my-posh fixed it for me.
Here's the oh-my-posh GH issue[0] in case your problem is similar but not solvable with a simple package update.
[0]: https://github.com/JanDeDobbeleer/oh-my-posh/issues/7029
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Project mention: Opencode: AI coding agent, built for the terminal | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-07-06
Side note, if you're a lazygit fan, consider using gitui as an alternative. Feature wise they're pretty similar but gitui is much faster and I find it easier to use.
https://github.com/gitui-org/gitui
NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Git projects? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | gitignore | 174,502 |
| 2 | 30-seconds-of-code | 128,155 |
| 3 | devops-exercises | 82,801 |
| 4 | lazygit | 79,459 |
| 5 | bat | 59,333 |
| 6 | Gitea | 56,374 |
| 7 | github-cheat-sheet | 56,254 |
| 8 | Gogs | 47,612 |
| 9 | bruno | 45,032 |
| 10 | cli | 44,919 |
| 11 | Files | 43,972 |
| 12 | logseq | 43,447 |
| 13 | harness | 36,865 |
| 14 | husky | 35,161 |
| 15 | delta | 31,178 |
| 16 | jj | 29,676 |
| 17 | gitbook | 28,905 |
| 18 | Wiki.js | 28,465 |
| 19 | gitleaks | 27,784 |
| 20 | dolt | 23,532 |
| 21 | hub | 22,948 |
| 22 | oh-my-posh | 22,863 |
| 23 | gitui | 22,136 |
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