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Step 1: Create integration between two proprietary, closed-source platforms.
Step 2: Advertise "Open source, open platform" as a major benefit of your new integration.

https://github.com/blog/2506-slack-and-github-your-ultimate-productivity-pair

 

So, what's the best OSS-based video sharing site for publishing a 2-minute 1080p thing? PeerTube looks amazing already, but there don't seem to be any sites with registration open atm. https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube

 

TIL: "Macaroons: Cookies with Contextual Caveats for Decentralized Authorization in the Cloud" https://research.google.com/pubs/pub41892.html (used by https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd e.g.)

 

TIL: "Smart contracts for RSK are written using Solidity [...] and are fully compatible with Ethereum Smart Contracts, so you can migrate your existing Ethereum Smart Contract to RSK Smart without doing any changes." https://github.com/rsksmart/rskj/wiki/Starting-with-RSK-Smart

 

Similar to Apple and Google, GitHub also cannibalize their own marketplace apps by re-implementing the popular ones as official features: https://github.com/blog/2470-introducing-security-alerts-on-github

Next up might be a CI solution, because GitLab pipelines are actually pretty awesome.

 

Finally checked out all the built-in Huginn agents, and it completely blew my mind. Infinite possibilities! https://github.com/huginn/huginn

 

9 years in, there's apparently still nobody at GitHub who wants to render 72-character-line Git commit messages without breaking them apart.

 

Sending and receiving OMEMO-encrypted messages across Conversations and Pidgin now, thanks to Germán's research and experimental libpurple plugin: https://github.com/manchito/libpurple-omemo-plugin

 

On the plus side, Peerdrop (a cross-platform alternative for Airdrop) is a fantastic little program! https://github.com/0x00A/peerdrop

 

The big difference between Mastodon and Identica is that it's accessible to devs. Git/GitHub vs. some Darcs repo + popular software stack.

 

That new GitHub topbar color is distracting me pretty hard this morning.

 

Don't wanna use GitHub's review feature, but hit the wrong button all the time? I added this to my Stylish rules: https://storage.5apps.com/basti/public/shares/161027-1557-Screenshot%20from%202016-10-27%2017-57-20....

 

GitHub Pages finally officially supports HTTPS for *.github.io, but not for your own domain. We got you covered: https://blog.5apps.com/2016/06/06/just-launched-free-and-instant-https-for-custom-domains.html

 

This just elevated my tmux experience to a whole new level: https://github.com/morantron/tmux-fingers

 

Seems like anyone can make their app an "official" Twitter client now: https://gist.github.com/rhenium/3878505

 

I couldn't find a generic incoming-webhook hubot script on npm, so I hacked up this one real quick: https://github.com/67P/hubot-incoming-webhook

 

LOL for devs using an OS, where they need a program-specific GUI to start and stop services. E.g. https://github.com/jpadilla/redisapp

 

Regarding that "brand new look" for GitHub repos: https://web.archive.org/web/20110623090859/https://github.com/rails/rails

 

Periodical reminder that JSON Schema is incredibly awesome, in the true sense of the word. Same goes for https://github.com/jdorn/json-editor

 

There's a libpurple (Pidgin, Adium, etc.) plugin for Telegram, and it works great! https://github.com/majn/telegram-purple

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