Linux Shtuff

LibreCaptcha is a framework that allows developers to create their own CAPTCHAs. It allows developers to easily create new types of CAPTCHAs by defining a structure for them. Mundane details are handled by the framework itself. Details such as: Background workers to render CAPTCHAs and to store them in a databaseProviding an HTTP interface for…

A simple site to test permission-related UI for web APIs.

There have been many shells (bash, zsh, fish) and many terminal emulators (iTerm, Hyper, Windows Terminal) created. But not one that tried to combine these two. Termy is a terminal with a built-in shell that tries to combine these two worlds and provide the user with a better experience.

Appwrite is an end-to-end back-end server for Web, Mobile, Native, or Back-end apps packaged as a set of Docker microservices. Appwrite abstracts the complexity and repetitiveness required to build a modern back end API from scratch and allows you to build secure apps faster. Using Appwrite, you can easily integrate your app with user authentication…

grex is a library as well as a command-line utility that is meant to simplify the often complicated and tedious task of creating regular expressions. It does so by automatically generating a single regular expression from user-provided test cases. The resulting expression is guaranteed to match the test cases which it was generated from.

Noobs Term is an installer that incorporates some of the best terminal based programs, packages, and configurations together into a convienient git package.

A simple and elegant live chat softwareAn opensource alternative to Intercom, Zendesk, Drift, Crisp etc.

(This post is an aspirational transcript of the talk I gave to the Data Terra Nemo conference in May 2015. If you’d like to watch the less eloquent version of the same talk that I actually gave, the video should be available soon!) I’ve been working on building a decentralized GitHub, and I’d like to talk about what this means and…

Even if we win the right to own and control our computers, a dilemma remains: what rights do owners owe users? Source: The coming civil war over general purpose computing | Boing Boing

If you need to convert files from one markup format into another, pandoc is your swiss-army knife. Pandoc can convert between the following formats: (← = conversion from; → = conversion to; ↔︎ = conversion from and to) Lightweight markup formats ↔︎ Markdown (including CommonMark and GitHub-flavored Markdown) ↔︎ reStructuredText → AsciiDoc ↔︎ Emacs Org-Mode ↔︎ Emacs Muse ↔︎ Textile ← txt2tags HTML formats ↔︎ (X)HTML…