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1. xsv - A fast CSV command line toolkit (Archived)

   2025-05-10
   command-line programming/csv programming/rust

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   Maintained forks:

   • dathere/qsv - Command-line data-wrangling toolkit with Lua scripting
   • medialab/xan - CSV processing tool with a built-in expression language
2. Lightpanda: the headless browser designed for AI and automation

   2025-01-22
   internet/browser programming/c programming/c++ programming/javascript programming/zig

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   • fubark/zig-v8 - Simple V8 builds with C and Zig bindings
   • lightpanda-io/zig-v8-fork
   • lightpanda-io/zig-js-runtime
   • Volcamp 2024 - Créer un browser from scratch, c'est possible ?
3. Red Hat - Furthering the evolution of CentOS Stream

   2024-11-22
   community license linux/centos linux/red-hat open-source/fork

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   • Red Hat’s commitment to open source: A response to the git.centos.org changes
   • Hackaday - CentOS Is Dead, Long Live CentOS
   • Impact of RHEL changes to AlmaLinux
   • Brave New World: The Path Forward for Rocky Linux
   • Rocky Linux Expresses Confidence Despite Red Hat's Announcement
   • Jeff Geerling - Dear Red Hat: Are you dumb?
   • Jeff Geerling - Removing official support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux
   • JMJ - Re-evaluating RHEL
4. Image Dithering - Create the illusion of color depth in images on systems with a limited color palette

   2024-11-18
   color/palette game image/2d image/compression image/dithering image/noise indie programming/go programming/roff

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   • Re: Return of the Obra Dinn [GDC 2016 Demo Build] - Dithering Process
   • Ditherpunk — The article I wish I had about monochrome image dithering
   • Cyan's Richard A. Watson - Dithering 101 (archive)
   • Differentiable Dithering
   • What the Heck is Blue Noise?
   • Generating Blue Noise Textures With Void And Cluster
     • Atrix256/VoidAndCluster
     • jdupuy/BlueNoiseDitherMaskTiles
   • Why Your Website Should Use Dithered Images
     • Dither Me This!
   • Why Your Website Should Not Use Dithered Images

   Command-line dithering tools:

   • makew0rld/didder (Go CLI)
     • makew0rld/dither (Go library)

   Online dithering tools:

   • Dither It! - A Web application to dither images
     • alexharris/ditherit-v2
   • Building Retro Dither: Dithering Algorithms, Run-Length Encoding, Resource Forks and More!
   • Blue Noise in Futhark
     • Munksgaard/bluenoise
5. LWN - The race to replace Redis

   2024-03-30
   database/nosql database/redis open-source/fork programming/c programming/c#

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   • Redis Adopts Dual Source-Available Licensing
   • valkey-io/valkey
   • redict/redict
   • microsoft/garnet
6. Elasticsearch - Grok processor

   2023-11-19
   observability/elastic/elasticsearch observability/elastic/logstash observability/logging programming/go programming/java programming/regular-expressions programming/rust

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   • Elastic - Grokking Grok
   • Kibana - Debug grok expressions
   • Grok Constructor
   • Elasticsearch Grok Patterns
   • Logstash Grok Patterns

   Alternative implementations:

   • vjeantet/grok - Simple library to use/parse grok patterns with Go
     • GuanceCloud/grok - Fork of the above
     • logrusorgru/grokky - Pure golang grok-like library
     • Telegraf's Grok Parser Plugin
   • Vector Remap Language - Datadog Grok Parser
7. PaperMC – The High Performance Spigot Fork

   2020-03-14
   game game/minecraft programming/java sandbox sever

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   • https://github.com/PaperMC/Paper
   • https://paper.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
   • https://aikar.co/2018/07/02/tuning-the-jvm-g1gc-garbage-collector-flags-for-minecraft/
   • https://www.reddit.com/r/admincraft/comments/93ble5/what_is_paper_spigot_and_why_you_should_use_it/
   • https://www.spigotmc.org/threads/spigot-vs-paperspigot-whats-the-difference.92288/
8. Redis - FAQ - Background saving fails with a fork() error under Linux even if I have a lot of free RAM!

   2018-10-29
   database/redis hardware/ram linux/container/docker memory

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   • https://github.com/docker-library/redis/issues/159
   • https://gist.github.com/kapkaev/4619127
   • https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19581059/misconf-redis-is-configured-to-save-rdb-snapshots
   • https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42502636/unable-to-save-in-background-redis-server
   • https://people.redhat.com/nhorman/papers/rhel4_vm.pdf
9. Stabbing yourself with a fork() in a multiprocessing.Pool full of sharks

   2018-09-07
   fork parallel process programming/python unix

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10. Miller columns

    2018-05-30
    apple/macos desktop file folder linux manager tree user-experience user-interface

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    DFileManager:

    • http://tuxdiary.com/2015/10/12/dfilemanager/
    • http://dfilemanager.sourceforge.net/

    ElementaryOS' Pantheon Files (Marlin fork):

    • https://launchpad.net/pantheon-files
    • https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pantheon
      • https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/pantheon-files/
      • https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/tumbler/
      • https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/contractor/
    • https://www.noobslab.com/2013/11/marlin-file-manager-for-ubuntu.html
    • https://www.noobslab.com/2014/09/marlin-file-manager-is-now-available.html
    • https://www.noobslab.com/2014/03/elementary-os-file-manager-pantheon.html

    Misc:

    • https://i.stack.imgur.com/NBkm1.jpg
    • https://github.com/lxqt/pcmanfm-qt/issues/465
    • https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/7w4lsl/miller_columns_on_linux/
    • https://ubuntu-mate.community/t/add-a-column-view-to-caja/11648
11. PyPDF2

    2018-04-04
    data document/pdf programming/python text

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    PyPDF2:

    • https://pythonhosted.org/PyPDF2/
    • https://pythonhosted.org/PyPDF2/PdfFileReader.html
    • https://github.com/mstamy2/PyPDF2

    Guides:

    • http://www.binpress.com/tutorial/manipulating-pdfs-with-python/167
    • https://automatetheboringstuff.com/chapter13/
    • http://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/2010/05/15/manipulating-pdfs-with-python-and-pypdf/
    • http://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/2012/07/11/pypdf2-the-new-fork-of-pypdf/
    • https://medium.com/@menglishu09/get-bookmarks-from-pdf-using-pypdf2-4166ae8eb6f6
    • http://blog.isnotworking.com/2006/08/extract-pdf-title-from-all-files-on.html

    Threads:

    • https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1918420/split-a-pdf-based-on-outline
    • https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8329748/how-to-get-bookmarks-page-number
    • https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2431426/extract-toc-of-pdf
    • https://stackoverflow.com/questions/911672/extracting-titles-from-pdf-files
    • https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10014572/python-open-pdf-file-to-specific-page-section
12. Hiveway.io forks Mastodon and slaps a blockchain on top, for some reason

    2018-03-05
    fork hoax mastodon troll wtf

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    • https://github.com/hiveway/hiveway/issues/7
    • https://github.com/hiveway/hiveway/issues/6
    • https://twitter.com/aeris22/status/970399030902747138
13. Using forked package import in Go - Stack Overflow

    2018-02-19
    community open-source/fork programming/go source-code-management/git

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    • http://blog.campoy.cat/2014/03/github-and-go-forking-pull-requests-and.html
    • https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/PackageManagementTools
    • http://code.openark.org/blog/development/forking-golang-repositories-on-github-and-managing-the-import-path
14. purr-data

    2017-05-08
    audio fx linux multimedia/pure-data plugin synthesis user-interface

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    • https://github.com/agraef/purr-data
    • https://git.purrdata.net/jwilkes/purr-data
    • https://bitbucket.org/l2orkaur/l2orkaur.bitbucket.org
    • active fork of http://l2ork.music.vt.edu/main/make-your-own-l2ork/software/
15. ruamel.yaml — yaml dev documentation

    2017-02-17
    markup programming/python programming/yaml

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    Maintained fork of https://pypi.python.org/pypi/PyYAML/

16. Gitea Docs

    2016-12-23
    fork gogs source-code-management source-code-management/git

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17. OPNsense® - Open Source Firewall - High-end Security Made Easy™

    2016-10-28
    bsd/freebsd linux network network/firewall programming/c programming/php

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    • opnsense
    • opnsense/core
    • opnsense/plugins
    • Architecture
    • About the Fork
18. Dark Audacity

    2016-08-31
    audio digital-audio-workstation digital-audio-workstation/audacity linux open-source/fork

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    Audacity spin-off dedicated to design experimentation

    Discussion archive @ https://sourceforge.net/p/audacity/mailman/audacity-devel/thread/73f5b514-0777-51fa-b96b-2859b4de61f6%40indigo.ie/ AUR package @ https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/darkaudacity-git

19. The Process | CommitStrip

    2016-01-08
    clone development hook open-source/fork programming/testing repository source-code-management/git source-code-management/github

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20. Python 3 Patterns, Recipes and Idioms: An Open-Source Book

    2016-01-05
    metaprogramming programming programming/design-pattern programming/object-oriented-programming programming/python

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    • Original sources: https://bitbucket.org/BruceEckel/python-3-patterns-idioms
    • Forked sources: https://bitbucket.org/MatToufoutu/python-3-patterns-idioms/src
    • ReadTheDocs Fork: http://python-3-patterns-idioms-test.readthedocs.org/en/latest/index.html