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Andy Zhao (he/him)
Andy Zhao (he/him)

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What's your favorite useless repo/package/website/etc?

So I'm trying to remedy my carpal tunnel by considering making the decision to give up my mouse completely, and use only the keyboard. I look through a fairly recent discuss thread just about that, and I find the Wox repo. It's basically Alfred/Launchy from Windows. Awesome, night's off to a good start.

And then I notice this:

List of Wox badges: build - passing, downloads - 17 M total, bless - Ramen

Wait, what? bless | Ramen???

Turns out it's a package to bless your code. And that's just amazing, cause while we work hard (usually) on developing useful tools for the world, it's makes me feel all good inside that someone spent some time to make it possible for ramen to bless our code.

So here we are, on a Thursday night: me, asking you what your favorite useless programming thing is, and you, hopefully showing me a whole new world.

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Vishal Narkhede

How about this one? :D
github.com/vishalnarkhede/not-hotdog

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Travis Fischer
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Benjamin Reed • Edited

99 replies and not a single link to Zombocom? I am so disappointed… Guess I'll be the first. :)

(technically not a "programming" thing but it is inspirational… and definitely useless)

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Simme

github.com/kelseyhightower/nocode and github.com/jezen/is-thirteen are both forever in my heart. ❤️

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Ghost

The only one brave enough to tell the truth.
github.com/kelseyhightower/nocode

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Vishal Narkhede

lol max!!

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TakaakiFuruse • Edited

RoR has "forty_two" method.

(1..42).to_a.forty_two # => 42

apidock.com/rails/Array/forty_two
api.rubyonrails.org/classes/Active...

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nervewax

Has to be fukol-grids
I'm surprised this one hasn't been posted yet!

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Andreas Dunker

geektyper.com/ To impress project managers - muahaha.

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David Ojeda
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Yechiel Kalmenson

nocode

hackertyper is fun for showing off to your friends ;)

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Dan

Favorite useless repo: »No Code - The best way to write secure and reliable applications« github.com/kelseyhightower/nocode

Favorite useless package: Good old »cowsay« packages.ubuntu.com/de/trusty/cowsay / packagist.org/packages/alrik11es/c...

Favorite useless website: »/dev/null as a Service« devnull-as-a-service.com/code/

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Amar Prakash Pandey • Edited

CLI for downloading sub-directory of any Github repository using Github Content API!

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My favorite tool is: Github Sectory.

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Stefan Su (he/him)

Still in the progress of understanding FizzBuzzEnterpriseEdition.

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Andy Zhao (he/him)

Bahaha I like the issues and PRs, like "Dockerize the app," "make code coverage bigger," and "split the monolith."

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✌️ dim

In France, we have this one : perdu.com
I love it

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Ricardo Bánffy

Since I spend a lot of time on Twitter discussing politics, chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/... (addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/a...) is a must in these dark times.

I also have been naming my hosts with nsaname (npmjs.com/package/nsaname)

Disclaimer: I built them.