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Presentation - A new open source deal for Web3
What does open source mean in 2019? Is it a legal innovation centered on licensing? Is it a way of working — collaborative peer productio...
BigfootJS
A jQuery plugin for empowering footnotes. Bigfoot is a jQuery plugin that creates exceptional footnotes. Simply include the code on your...
Canadian Incorporation as a non-resident
Setting up a company in Canada as a non-resident Note: a lot of this is relevant to setting up any kind of corporation in Canada. See [[S...
BVP Roadmap Open source
We are open sourcing our OSS roadmap so other can see exactly how we evaluate OSS companies and why we are so excited about this space:...
Chezmoi
Manage your [[dotfiles]] across multiple diverse machines, securely. https://www.chezmoi.io github https://github.com/twpayne/chezmoi ...
Discourse
Civilized discussion for your community Discourse is super flexible open source forum software. It’s a top [[Community Tool]]. The priv...
Forward Email
website: https://forwardemail.net/ A free, encrypted, and open-source email forwarding service for custom domains. Setup your [[DNS]] to ...
Frontity
Frontity is a React-based front end framework that uses [[WordPress]] as a [[Headless CMS]]. Works with hosted [[Wordpress.com]] sites. R...
GitHawk
website: http://githawk.com/ The best iOS app for issue & PR management on [[Github]]. Emoji reaction support. Open source.
Fraidycat
Follow people on any platform, from [[RSS]] feeds to [[Twitter]] to YouTube to [[TiddlyWiki]]. Rather than individual items, focused on r...
Hyper
website: https://hyper.is/ An [[Electron]]-based desktop terminal app, built on HTML/CSS/JS. “The goal of the project is to create a beau...
Ghost
Ghost is an open source blogging and publishing platform. More recently, it’s been calling itself a [[Headless CMS]]. You can use Ghost f...
Mailtrain
website: https://mailtrain.org/ A [[Self Hosted]] newsletter application built on Node.js (v10+) and MySQL (v8+) or MariaDB (v10+).
Mastodon
Mastodon is an open source federated micro-blogging platform. The Mastodon documentation site https://docs.joinmastodon.org/ covers what ...
Memory Express
Vancouver and Canada-wide computer parts and components store. The store on W Broadway at Cypress is the one closest to me in Vancouver.
MIT License
The MIT License is a [[Permissive License]].
Moa Party
Links your [[Mastodon]] account to [[Twitter]] to enable cross-posting in both directions. @flancian, @vera and I have formed a squad und...
Neocities
Neocities is a reboot of Geocities. The entire site is [[Open Source]]. I have an empty placeholder site there https://bmann.neocities.or...
Orientation
Rails app to create internal docs & tutorials for an organization. Has [[Deploy to Heroku]] support, uses Google Auth for login, can ...
Outline
Open source [[Wiki]] and knowledge base for growing teams. Rich text editor that transforms Markdown on the fly. Free for up to 5, paid h...
Micro Editor
Terminal-based Text Editor website: https://micro-editor.github.io/ Static binary with no dependencies so it can run on pretty much any s...
ProseMirror
Toolkit for building rich-text editors on the web. Developed by [[The Guardian]] and others. An ideal content editor produces structured...
Simply Jekyll
Highly customized [[Jekyll]] template that supports both posts and custom notes, with everything able to be linked together with [[backli...
Micropub to Github
A [[NodeJS]] server designed to self-host with [[Deploy to Heroku]] support with an [[MIT License]]. Self-hosteable Micropub endpoint th...
Meet.Coop
access to open source meeting and conferencing tools, powered by BigBlueButton, running on cooperatively owned infrastructure. We are pa...
Minimal Mistakes
Minimal Mistakes is a [[Jekyll]] theme that I have used for many years. Extremely flexible, lots of layouts and options, well-structured ...
s3_email
A [[Serverless]] email server on AWS using [[AmazonS3]] and [[AmazonSES]]. git: https://github.com/0x4447/0x4447_product_s3_email “an unm...
PostHog
Open source [[Product Analytics]] From their Github: “We are an open source alternative to [[Mixpanel]], [[Amplitude]] or [[Heap]], desig...
Standard Readme
git: https://github.com/RichardLitt/standard-readme A standard format for README files, designed for open source libraries.
Astuto
Astuto is a free, open source, self-hosted customer feedback tool. It helps you collect, manage and prioritize feedback from your users. ...
Joplin
Open source, markdown-based note taking & to do. Originally designed to import Evernote .enex files. https://joplin.cozic.net/ Availa...
WeServ
Image cache and resizing. You can use the hosted service directly to resize & crop images on the fly, or run a version of the open so...
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