#opensource – Page 2 – Tony's Take On Tech

Easily send notifications to your desktop/device

Leave a Comment / Tech / tony / 2021-12-31 / #github, #opensource, #tips

What is it? It’s a way to send arbitrary notifications from…well, just about anywhere to just about anything that can “listen”. The author has created an app (iOS and Android) as well as a CLI, and an API that you can run via cURL or any other similar app which means you can drive it just about any way you want!

I came across this in HackerNews at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29715464. The author has the source available on github at https://github.com/binwiederhier/ntfy. While you can host it yourself, the author has the service available for free at ntfy,sh.

#github, #opensource, #tips

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A Linux that makes it easy to track…

Leave a Comment / Linux, Tech / tony / 2021-12-29 / #gobolinux, #linux, #opensource, #ubernerd

…your installed packages and determine which file(s) are used by which package. I came across GoboLinux.org recently and, I have to say, I’m intrigued! It’s an experiment that has been going for 10 years(!) – you can read an interview with one of its original developers at https://hub.packtpub.com/gobolinux-interview-lucas-villa-real/. There’s an fairly active forum over at https://gobolinux.discourse.group/ and they also do Twitter, IRC(!), Mastodon, and…yes, Facebook!

No, I haven’t installed it yet…not enough time to play with a radically different distro (that is not without its problems) but it’s progressing and takes an interesting approach to file and package management.

#gobolinux, #linux, #opensource, #ubernerd

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For all you CLI/shell aficionados

Leave a Comment / Linux, Mac, Tech / tony / 2021-12-11 / #cli, #ngs, #opensource, #tips

Next Generation Shell (https://ngs-lang.org/) looks interesting. I’ve been doing a lot with REST APIs which generally return JSON or XML; i.e. something I need to parse to know the results. I could do a lot of my coding in Python or some other language that can easily parse those returns, there are a number of reasons I use bash (notably, the ability to put stuff into the current environment for later use and not have to worry about config files cluttering up my filesystem). NGS doesn’t address THAT particular issue but it does have native parsing capability as well as quite a few other really useful features. It’s something to look in to, for sure! For Mac and Linux and a docker container, too.

#cli, #ngs, #opensource, #tips

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Backup with Restic

Leave a Comment / Linux, Mac / tony / 2021-11-13 / #backup, #docker, #github, #opensource

Open source (github), multi-platform (including docker images), local and cloud storage. Password protected, incremental backups of files, directories, filesystems
https://restic.net/ is its home

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Want to contribute to an Open Source project?

Leave a Comment / Misc, Tech / tony / 2021-11-01 / #opensource, #oss, #websites

Sure, there are many sites out there but https://www.oss-port.com/ is trying to collect and categorize projects by language, focus, environment, type of talent needed.

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