​​A checklist of tactics for marketing your side projects.

The Side Project Marketing Checklist is a comprehensive, chronologically ordered list of marketing tactics and ideas that you can try with your next side project.

I've been building little software side projects for years, but I've always been terrible at marketing them. I come up with some ideas, forget those ideas, do some random stuff, then lose interest. The goal of this repository is to fix that.

https://github.com/portable-cto/side-project-marketing/blob/master/marketing-checklist.md

​​A temporary email right from your terminal.

tmpmail tmpmail is a command line utility that allows you to create a temporary email address and receive emails to the temporary email address. It uses 1secmail's API to receive the emails.

By default w3m is used to render the HTML emails on the terminal. But if you prefer another text based web browser or would rather view the email in a GUI web browser such as Firefox, simply use the --browser argument followed by the command needed to launch the web browser of your choice.

https://github.com/sdushantha/tmpmail

#shell #devops

​​> I don't know if anyone else creates a lot of empty #elixir
projects just to try out dependencies in IEx, but I've been hacking on a mix task to make things easier and save myself some cleanup.

https://github.com/brettbeatty/mix_deps_try

#css only library to apply color filters.

Features:
- Only CSS. No JavaScript!
- ~1KB minified and gzipped!
- Supports all modern browsers
- Built with SCSS.
- Hover support.

https://github.com/bansal/filters.css

​​This Intellij plugin allows you to save your code as an image. By simply selecting your code.

This plugin allows you to save your code as an image. By simply selecting your code, you can save you code with proper syntax highlighting. The image adapts to the current setting of your intellij editor like background color.

https://github.com/mohak1712/CodeSnapshot

#java

⚡Breaking news!

GitHub CLI 1.0 is now available!

GitHub CLI brings GitHub to your terminal. It reduces context switching, helps you focus, and enables you to more easily script and create your own workflows.

With GitHub CLI 1.0, you can:
- Run your entire GitHub workflow from the terminal, from issues through releases
- Call the GitHub API to script nearly any action, and set a custom alias for any command
- Connect to GitHub Enterprise Server in addition to GitHub.com

https://github.blog/2020-09-17-github-cli-1-0-is-now-available/

​​⚡Breaking news!

#vue 3.0 is released!
Docs: https://v3.vuejs.org/

​​SQL powered operating system instrumentation, monitoring, and analytics.

osquery exposes an operating system as a high-performance relational database. This allows you to write SQL-based queries to explore operating system data. With osquery, SQL tables represent abstract concepts such as running processes, loaded kernel modules, open network connections, browser plugins, hardware events or file hashes.

SQL tables are implemented via a simple plugin and extensions API. A variety of tables already exist and more are being written: https://osquery.io/schema. To best understand the expressiveness that is afforded to you by osquery, consider the following SQL queries:

 DISTINCT processes.name, listening_ports.port, processes.pid
  FROM listening_ports JOIN processes USING (pid)
  WHERE listening_ports.address = '0.0.0.0';

https://osquery.io/

#cpp #devops

​​You can compile many things to WebAssembly.
Now, you can compile COBOL to WebAssembly as well.
In case you wanted it.

It is even wrapped in a docker for better developer experience.

https://github.com/cloudflare/cobaul

​​sqlbench measures and compares the execution time of one or more SQL queries.

The main use case is benchmarking simple CPU-bound query variants against each other during local development.

Only PostgreSQL is supported at this point, but pull requests for MySQL or other databases are welcome.

https://github.com/felixge/sqlbench

#go

​​A resource based framework for building #elixir applications.

Traditional MVC Frameworks (Rails, Django, .Net, Phoenix, etc) leave it up to the user to build the glue between requests for data (HTTP requests in various forms as well as server-side domain logic) and their respective ORMs. In that space, there is an incredible amount of boilerplate code that must get written from scratch for each application (authentication, authorization, sorting, filtering, sideloading relationships, serialization, etc).

Ash is an opinionated yet configurable framework designed to reduce boilerplate in an Elixir application. Ash does this by providing a layer of abstraction over your system's data layer(s) with Resources. It is designed to be used in conjunction with a phoenix application, or on its own.

To riff on a famous JRR Tolkien quote, a Resourceis "One Interface to rule them all, One Interface to find them" and will become an indispensable place to define contracts for interacting with data throughout your application.

To start using Ash, first declare your Resources using the Ash Resource DSL. You could technically stop there, and just leverage the Ash Elixir API to avoid writing boilerplate. More likely, you would use extensions like Ash.JsonApi or Ash.GraphQL with Phoenix to add external interfaces to those resources without having to write any extra code at all.

Ash is an open-source project and draws inspiration from similar ideas in other frameworks and concepts. The goal of Ash is to lower the barrier to adopting and using Elixir and Phoenix, and in doing so help these amazing communities attract new developers, projects, and companies.

https://github.com/ash-project/ash

​​A new GraphQL library for #python based on dataclasses.

Awesome features:
- Has async support
- Fully type-safe, even has its own mypy plugin for better inference
- Shipped with django Integration
- Has very good docs!

https://github.com/strawberry-graphql/strawberry

What's new in #php 8.0?

There are a lot of new awesome features! Like:
- Union types
- Null-safety operators
- Pattern-matching
- JIT
- Stricter defaults in many places

Slides: https://slides.com/carusogabriel/php8-en

​​Learn #git by building one in #python!

> This tutorial is different from most Git internals tutorials because we're not going to talk about Git only with words but also with code! We're going to write in Python as we go.

> This is not a tutorial on using Git! To follow along I advise that you have working knowledge of Git. If you're a newcomer to Git, this tutorial is probably not the best place to start your Git journey. I suggest coming back here after you've used Git a bit and you're comfortable with making commits, branching, merging, pushing and pulling.

> Why learn Git internals?

> For most tools that we use daily, we don't really care about their internals. We can use Firefox or Vim without understanding their inner workings.

> At first you shouldn't care about Git internals either. You can use Git as a set of CLI commands that track code history. Run git add, git commit and git push all day long and you'll do fine, as long as you're a sole developer who just commits to one branch.

> But once you start collaborating with multiple people on multiple branches and things like rebase or force push are getting involved, it's easy to become lost if you don't have a good mental model of Git internals.

> From my experience with using Git myself and teaching others, a better way to improve your effectiveness with Git is by understanding how it works behind the scenes and not by learning more "advanced" Git commands. This understanding is what will allow you to solve the kind of problems that multi-user collaborative coding sometimes produce.

> Why not learn Git by reading the real Git code?

> The real Git code is too complicated to be useful for learning basic concepts with ease. It is production quality code that is optimized for speed. It is written in C. It implements so many advanced Git features. It deals with a lot of edge cases that we don't care about for learning. In this tutorial we will focus on the bare minimum to get the point across.

https://www.leshenko.net/p/ugit

PostgreSQL 13 Released!

PostgreSQL 13 includes significant improvements to its indexing and lookup system that benefit large databases, including space savings and performance gains for indexes, faster response times for queries that use aggregates or partitions, better query planning when using enhanced statistics, and more.

Along with highly requested features like parallelized vacuuming and incremental sorting, PostgreSQL 13 provides a better data management experience for workloads big and small, with optimizations for daily administration, more conveniences for application developers, and security enhancements.

Changelog: https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/2077/

​​A SQL database implemented purely in TypeScript type annotations.

This means that it operates solely on #ts types - you define a "database" (just a type annotation) and then query it using some more type annotations.

It supports a subset of #sql, including SELECT (with conditions and joins), INSERT, UPDATE and DELETE statements.

Personal opinion: crazy and super cool!

https://github.com/codemix/ts-sql

​​An #erlang backend to the OCaml compiler.

So, you can write OCaml and get Erlang bytecode!
You can get the best of two worlds: OCaml's type system and Erlang's awesome virtual machine.

As you can tell, this is highly experimental. But, lack of typing in Erlang is a very hot topic. There are several competing solutions at the moment. See our #gleam posts for more information.

https://github.com/AbstractMachinesLab/caramel

​​Completely unstyled, fully accessible UI components, designed to integrate beautifully with Tailwind CSS.

Supports both #vue and #react. Svelte support will be added soon.
It will be a really interesting project!

https://headlessui.dev/

Automatic HTTPS for any #go program: fully-managed TLS certificate issuance and renewal.

Easy and Powerful TLS Automation. The same library used by the Caddy Web Server.

Caddy's automagic TLS features—now for your own Go programs—in one powerful and easy-to-use library! CertMagic is the most mature, robust, and capable ACME client integration for Go... and perhaps ever.

With CertMagic, you can add one line to your Go application to serve securely over TLS, without ever having to touch certificates.

certmagic.HTTPS([]string{"example.com"}, mux)

That line of code will serve your HTTP router mux over HTTPS, complete with HTTP->HTTPS redirects. It obtains and renews the TLS certificates. It staples OCSP responses for greater privacy and security. As long as your domain name points to your server, CertMagic will keep its connections secure.

Compared to other ACME client libraries for Go, only CertMagic supports the full suite of ACME features, and no other library matches CertMagic's maturity and reliability.

https://github.com/caddyserver/certmagic

#devops

Hacktoberfest will start tomorrow! 🎃

Support open source and pick a limited edition T-shirt or plant a tree.

To earn your Hacktoberfest tee or tree reward, you must register and make four valid pull requests (PRs) between October 1-31 (in any time zone). PRs can be made to any public repo on GitHub, not only the ones with issues labeled Hacktoberfest. If a maintainer reports your pull request as spam or behavior not in line with the project’s code of conduct, you will be ineligible to participate. This year, the first 70,000 participants who successfully complete the challenge will be eligible to receive a prize.

https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com

But, that's not it! There are other companies who offer extra swag:

https://github.com/crweiner/hacktoberfest-swag-list

Don't know where to start? I've got you covered!
1. You can contribute to the most advanced typed library in Python's ecosystem: https://github.com/dry-python/returns/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3Ahacktoberfest
2. Or to the strictest Python linter out there: https://github.com/wemake-services/wemake-python-styleguide/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3AHacktoberfest

Happy Hactoberfest!

​​Disk Usage/Free Utility (Linux, BSD & macOS)

Features:
- User-friendly, colorful output
- Adjusts to your terminal's width
- Sort the results according to your needs
- Groups & filters devices
- Can conveniently output JSON

https://github.com/muesli/duf

#go #devops