​​⚡Breaking news!

#npm is joining #github!

npm is a critical part of the #js world. The work of the npm team over the last 10 years, and the contributions of hundreds of thousands of open source developers and maintainers, have made npm home to over 1.3 million packages with 75 billion downloads a month. Together, they’ve helped JavaScript become the largest developer ecosystem in the world. We at GitHub are honored to be part of the next chapter of npm’s story and to help npm continue to scale to meet the needs of the fast-growing JavaScript community.

Looking further ahead, we’ll integrate GitHub and npm to improve the security of the open source software supply chain, and enable you to trace a change from a GitHub pull request to the npm package version that fixed it. Open source security is an important global issue, and with the recent launch of the GitHub Security Lab and GitHub’s built-in security advisories, we are well-positioned to make a difference. In addition, GitHub Sponsors has already paid out millions of dollars to open source contributors, and we’re excited to explore tasteful ways to extend it to the npm ecosystem.

https://github.blog/2020-03-16-npm-is-joining-github/

​​#python

django-schema-graph makes a colourful diagram out of your Django models. The diagram is interactive, and makes it easy to toggle models and apps on/off at will.

https://github.com/meshy/django-schema-graph

It looks like this:

​​Health checks for your documentation links.

Features:
- Concurrent and recursive checks
- Respect robots.txt restrictions (content only)
- External links checks
- Checking links within base url path
- Retries in the case of 502, 503 and 504 http errors

https://github.com/butuzov/deadlinks

#python

​​Introducing wax: a #wasm package runner!

wax is a tool intended to ease the use of command-line WebAssembly applications on your system. Similarly to wapm, that allows the installation and usage of packages and commands, wax enables use of CLI tools without installing them globally or changing your PATH.

https://wasmer.io/

Lightweight Kubernetes. Easy to install, half the memory, all in a binary less than 40mb.

Great for:
- Edge
- IoT
- CI
- ARM
- Situations where a PhD in #k8s clusterology is infeasible

https://github.com/rancher/k3s

#go #devops

​​Lens - The free, smart desktop application for managing Kubernetes clusters.

What makes Lens special?
- Amazing usability and end user experience
- Real-time cluster state visualization
- Resource utilization charts and trends with history powered by built-in Prometheus
- Terminal access to nodes and containers
- Fully featured role based access control management
- Dashboard access and functionality limited by RBAC

https://github.com/lensapp/lens

#k8s #ts

​​papermill is a tool for parameterizing, executing, and analyzing Jupyter Notebooks.

Papermill lets you:

- parameterize notebooks
- execute notebooks

This opens up new opportunities for how notebooks can be used. For example:

- Perhaps you have a financial report that you wish to run with different values on the first or last day of a month or at the beginning or end of the year, using parameters makes this task easier.
- Do you want to run a notebook and depending on its results, choose a particular notebook to run next? You can now programmatically execute a workflow without having to copy and paste from notebook to notebook manually.

https://github.com/nteract/papermill

#python

That's how you execute notebooks: papermill local/input.ipynb s3://bkt/output.ipynb -p alpha 0.6 -p l1_ratio 0.1

And that's how you parametrize them:

​​Announcing gqless, a GraphQL client WITHOUT QUERIES 🤯

https://github.com/samdenty/gqless

#ts

​​Introducing you misspell-fixer-action. It is a #github action that will fix your typos and grammar errors in both source code and documentation.

And then send you a pull request with the fixes it made! It is an auto-formatter, but for natural languages.

https://github.com/sobolevn/misspell-fixer-action

Here's an example:

MeiliSearch is a powerful, fast, open-source, easy to use, and deploy search engine. The search and indexation are fully customizable and handles features like typo-tolerance, filters, and synonyms.

https://github.com/meilisearch/MeiliSearch

#rust

​​K9s provides a terminal UI to interact with your Kubernetes clusters. The aim of this project is to make it easier to navigate, observe and manage your applications in the wild. K9s continually watches Kubernetes for changes and offers subsequent commands to interact with your observed resources.

https://github.com/derailed/k9s

#go #k8s #devops

This plugin adds cargo add, cargo rm, and cargo update commands to #rust projects. Something I personally really miss.

https://github.com/killercup/cargo-edit

#rust

An operating system designed for hosting containers written in #rust

Bottlerocket focuses on security and maintainability, providing a reliable, consistent, and safe platform for container-based workloads. The base operating system has just what you need to run containers reliably, and is built with standard open-source components. Bottlerocket-specific additions focus on reliable updates and on the API. Instead of making configuration changes manually, you can change settings with an API call, and these changes are automatically migrated through updates.

Some notable features include:

- API access for configuring your system, with secure out-of-band access methods when you need them.
- Updates based on partition flips, for fast and reliable system updates.
- Modeled configuration that's automatically migrated through updates.
- Security as a top priority.

https://github.com/bottlerocket-os/bottlerocket

#devops

> I remember how careful I was the first time I opened a GitHub pull request. I read, re-read and triple-checked every one my comments before posting. It felt scary publishing my thoughts online because I was afraid people would judge me or misinterpret me.

> I enjoy working on open source just as much today as when I started. In this post I want to share some principles I try to follow to avoid unproductive discussions and invest my focus on what matters the most. Some of these dos and don'ts might be useful for maintainers, some for contributors. Whatever your role in open source, I hope you find some useful tips.

Dos and don'ts in open source: https://geirsson.com/open-source.html

​​ExplainShell - a command-line contextual visualizer.

https://explainshell.com

#shell

​​A visual debugger for Jupyter!

https://blog.jupyter.org/a-visual-debugger-for-jupyter-914e61716559

#python

Interesting take on margin:

> We should ban margin from our components. Hear me out. Margin breaks component encapsulation. A well-built component should not affect anything outside itself. Margin makes reusability harder. Good components are usable in any context or layout.

#css #rant

> You’re creating a patient registration flow and your user is partway through the form wizard and needs more information on how to find and fill out their “insurance certificate number” in order to continue. Some users need to know what this means. Others need to know where to find it (hint: it’s on another piece of paper).

> You’ve come to a crossroads. Do you interrupt the flow? Add a page? A modal? How do you decide what to do?

This article offers a decision making framework: what component you should use and when.

#css

​​aiometer is a #python 3.7+ concurrency scheduling library compatible with asyncio and trio and inspired by Trimeter. It makes it easier to execute lots of tasks concurrently while controlling concurrency limits (i.e. applying backpressure) and collecting results in a predictable manner.

https://github.com/florimondmanca/aiometer

Integrating new code quality tools into existing legacy is always hard.

Here's a good article about integrating RuboCop into existing #ruby code.

We are also working on adding a single command integration of wemake-python-styleguide into an existing #python legacy. Currently it is a WIP, but you can already read about it here: https://github.com/wemake-services/wemake-python-styleguide/pull/1276/files#diff-a767531552fe775f5be950388425b154R28

More tools and articles about this to come!