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My potentially useful Github stars

I have some things starred on Github. These are ones that might someday be useful, mostly for my own reference.

JavaScript

• download-esm - vendor npm packages.
• Temporal - better datetimes for JavaScript, coming natively to browsers.
• Effect-TS - Pydantic for TypeScript, maybe better than io-ts? See also zod, trpc.
• Proposal to have erasable type annotations supported natively in the browser.
• daisyui - nice looking Tailwind components.
• engine262 - JS interpreter in JS.
• morphdom - morph one DOM element into another, no VDOM.
• flamebearer - flame graph profiling.
• shoelace - nice looking frontend component library.

Python

• whenever - fix all teh datetime problems.
• playwright - modern Selenium replacement.
• ruff - nouveau linting a la flake8, see also uv.
• snakeviz - flame graph profiling.
• pyinstrument - runtime profiling
• scalene - nouveau profiling hotness
• greenery - determine the minimal possible regex/regex equality.
• MonkeyType - generate type annotations by running tests.
• spectree - FastAPI for Flask.
• dtparse - example PyO3 usage (Rust Python wrapper).
• pythonize - Serde for Python objects.
• pex - bundle Python programs.
• Strictly typed Pandas.
• Meta Pydantic.
• trio - fresh async library.
• Convex Optimization.

Developer tools

• swimm.io - funky developer docs.
• remark - easy Markdown powerpoints.
• marimo - alternative to Jupyter notebooks.
• superset - dashboard builder builder and in-browser SQL IDE.

SQL/Postgres

• pgroll - zero downtime Postgres migrations.
• paradedb - turn Postgres into Elasticsearch.
• plprql - nouveau SQL variant, runs as Postgres extension.
• Graph Queries are coming to ANSI SQL.
• pgcli alternative to psql.
• Postgres++ for Kubernetes - probably a good starting point for backups/connection pooling etc.
• Postgres + Elasticsearch.
• Rust SQL parser, used by gluesql.
• realtime - listen to Postgres changes over Websockets.
• Magic F# SQL typechecking.

Incremental View Maintenance

• readyset another Postgres wire-compatible IVM thing.
• pathway streaming system allegedly with IVM capabilities.
• pg_ivm - IVM extension to Postgres, this might be the route it takes to end up native.
• dbsp implementation, see theory.
• noria - materialize.io for MySQL applications.

Other

• AudioSep - split audio files into stems.
• catala - law as code.