Never-ending list of cool technology I’ve found

2024-03-18

  • Rex - Golang regex library like Magic Regexp for TypeScript

2024-03-08

  • Mage - use Go code to build Makefile-like scripts/tools

2024-03-06

  • pg_vectorize - perform vector searches in PostgreSQL, also sends text data to embedding APIs to get the embeddings for you if they’re not already calculated
  • strings-to-regex - a tool to build regular expressions from example strings
  • regex-to-strings - a tool to give you example matches for a given regex

2024-03-02

  • chezmoi - dot file manager
  • dust - TUI disk space analyzer

2024-02-23

  • gorram - go run for any function, not just main

2024-02-22

  • lo - lodash-like map, filter, reduce, … for Golang
  • mo - monads and other FP-style abstractions like Option, Either, Result, … for Golang
  • do - dependency injection toolkit for Golang that utilizes generics for type safety
  • atuin - “magical shell history”, a shell history manager with a TUI and optional sync
  • skim - a shell fuzzy finder
  • pieces - AI-powered snippet manager

2024-02-13

  • goauto - create pipelines that monitor for filesystem changes to run automated tasks

2024-02-02

  • vst2 - make vst2 plugins in Golang

2024-02-01

  • Unicorn Engine - built on QEMU and can emulate raw sections of code without context so you can reverse engineer a part of an executable without running the whole thing
  • goyek - task automation in Golang

2024-01-24

  • proxify - a Golang proxy for capturing and replaying traffic (HTTP/HTTPS/SOCKS)

2024-01-11

  • go-app - create PWA with just Golang (feels like GWT for Golang)

2024-01-10

  • kleiner - make self-updating Golang binaries

2024-01-09

  • shoelace - simple web components that work with or without React

2024-01-05

  • progrium/macdriver - soon to be renamed DarwinKit, provides Golang easy access to MacOS native APIs

2024-01-04

2024-01-03

  • robotn/gohook - cross-platform global keyboard hooks in Golang
  • stephen-fox/user32util - user32 interface for Golang (useful for invoking functions like user32util.SendKeydbInput to press keys in games via scan codes)

2024-01-02

2023-12-20

  • JSON-to-Go - convert JSON payloads to the Golang code necessary for serialization/deserialization
  • curl-to-Go - convert curl commands to Golang code

2023-12-07

  • gokrazy - create appliances with Raspberry Pi and similar hardware using the Linux kernel and Golang code

2023-11-16

  • aria2 - download files via HTTPS and other protocols using multiple concurrent connections

2023-11-09

  • go-sdr - low level Golang interface for RTL-SDR + HackRF
  • go-rtlsdr - RTL-SDR package for Golang
  • openai-go - OpenAI client library for Golang (completions, chat, transcription, embeddings)
  • hamsdr’s sdr.go (permalink for 2016 version) - inactive, but contains implementations of AM decoding, FM decoding, squelch (!), low pass filtering, de-emphasis filtering, and software automatic gain control for SDR

2023-11-03

  • GQRX - SDR software for Mac OS that actually works with a HackRF and can be installed with Homebrew

2023-11-01

  • The Go Sync package - cool concurrency features
  • ImHex - a free, and open-source hex editing / reverse engineering tool
  • 010 Editor - a commercial hex editing / reverse engineering tool
  • CubicSDR - use your RTL-SDR dongles on Mac OS with a GUI
    • Sonoma users will have to compile it from source
  • Detect-It-Easy - determine a file’s type easily
  • Unicorn - a multi-architecture CPU emulator framework
  • binwalk - analyze, reverse engineer, and extract firmware images
  • gio - Golang GUI framework

2023-10-26

  • fsmonitor - Monitor file system events on MacOS in a nice GUI
  • Wails - make Electron-like apps with Golang
  • shadcn - nice component library for the web (I’ve known about this for a long time but Wails reminded me that I never listed it here)
  • reisen - extract video and audio frames from containers in Golang

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2023-05-30

  • DoNotPay - use chat bots to get out of unfair charges, lower your bills, etc.
  • quackr.io - Get a shared temporary SMS number for free. Spammy, but seems to work.

2023-05-23

  • dust.tt - Cloud-based LangChain-like platform that can connect to OpenAI, Anthropic, Hugging Face, Notion, and more
  • vellum.ai - Cloud-based platform for testing prompts against different models and with different parameters

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2022-12-07

2022-12-01

  • xdotool - Control X11 keyboard and mouse from the CLI, and more

2022-11-10

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2022-09-30

  • sar - System Activity Report for Linux, collects, reports, and saves CPU, memory, and I/O usage
  • steampipe - query cloud resources on the command line with SQL

2022-09-20

  • retina - Rust RTSP library that works around bugs in broken ONVIF implementations
  • rtsp-types - parse and generate RTSP messages in Rust
  • video-rs and oddity-rtsp-server - Rust library to read, write, encode, and decode video and an RTSP server for retransmission

2022-08-20

  • Znai - documentation tool

2022-08-17

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2022-08-15

  • MidiPipe - creates a MIDI pass through so Java MIDI can talk to Logic Pro X
  • MIDI Monitor - a packet sniffer for MIDI

2022-07-26

  • SikuliX - an IDE with an API that can automate desktop applications, cross-platform

2022-07-12

2022-07-07

All of these I found through a Notion update since they all integrate with Notion in some way

  • Pitch - collaborative presentation building software
  • Amplitude - product analytics with a 10M event per month free tier
  • Grid - shared spreadsheet that can create interactive charts in Notion (I think)

2022-06-30

  • Rook.io - Storage operations for Kubernetes - “self-managing, self-scaling, self-healing storage services”
  • Ceph - open source, distributed storage system - claims to be able to uni-directional sync to S3 with the Cloud Sync module
  • Hashicorp Nomad - cloud, on-premises/edge orchestrator for bare metal and containers
  • Rubik’s cube

2022-06-29

  • act - Run GitHub actions locally, avoid pushing lots of test commits to a repo to make sure a workflow runs properly

2022-06-28