A constellation of stars
Software development is a large part of my daily life. Not just the things I create myself. I also enjoy staying up to date with events in my field and discovering new tools, apps, services and techniques.
Keeping everything organised can be quite a hassle, simply because there is just so much to discover.
One of the ways I keep track of interesting things I have discovered, is by using the "star" feature on Github. Whenever there is something I want to keep track of, I look for the source code repository on Github. If there is one, I "star" it, so I can easily find it again later.
To give you an idea of how prolific I am with staring repos: in the 3764 days since I joined Github, I have starred more than 2500 repositories.
Who watches the starwatchers
Some time ago, a colleague of mine at Takeaway (@webbertakken) told me that he enjoys seeing what kind of things I have discovered (and starred). He was a little disapointed, though, that there wasn't really any way for him to figure out why I had starred a certain repo.
His comment gave me the idea to write a sentence or two for each repo I star. At the time it was just one idea of many floating around.
Lift off!
This week, however, I finally had enough time and energy to make a first attempt. Now, I am proud to present to you: Potherca's Weekly Github Stars
Every week (most likely after the weekend), I'll be posting to dev.to which Github repositories I have starred. I'll also explain a bit about why I starred a specific repository and provide some background details.
So, if you want to know what is going on in my world, development wise, you can now follow along. 👍
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