Sporadic Ops Github Digest #5 (July 10th 2014)

"Did you missed me?" :)

Was quite busy. So, let's continue our fascinating journey to amazing world of interesting and/or useful (to the Ops engineers) Github projects!

1. A shell console with GUI features http://xiki.org
https://github.com/trogdoro/xiki
Did you see that awesomeness? If not - go to http://xiki.org and give it a try. It's definitely some fresh air for old and stale world of 70's unix shells.

Did you start own "awesome" list of something? Not yet?
Now we have bunch of them - Scala, Go, but my favorite is :

2. Awesome awesomeness - A curated list of awesome awesomeness.
https://github.com/bayandin/awesome-awesomeness

3. A Python library for automating interaction with websites.
https://github.com/hickford/MechanicalSoup
Same thing as Perl's WWW-Mechanize and Ruby's Mechanize - but compatible with python 2.x and 3.x and using Requests and BeautifulSoup as engine.

4. Snabb Switch: Fast open source packet processing
https://github.com/SnabbCo/snabbswitch
Very interesting project of open-source Lua-powered bare metal ethernet switch/router/firewall. Check that article for start - Snabb Switch - Skip The OS And Get 40 Million Requests Per Second In Lua

5. The next-generation email platform 

https://www.inboxapp.com/
https://github.com/inboxapp/inbox
Also very interesting project - Mail retrieval engine + API - you can collect email from various sources and retrieve it in your app/service - python-based and ready to run on your laptop or server.

6. 500 Lines or Less
https://github.com/aosabook/500lines
Not very interesting for now, but put it to your bookmarks or watch it on Github. New "The Architecture of Open Source Applications"-like book will be there soon.

7. Easily use tmux to collaborate with distant friends!
https://github.com/non/pairing
Small tool for pair programming over sharing your terminal with tmux.

8. Flappybird clone for Vim
https://github.com/mattn/flappyvird-vim
Just for fun! Awesome stuff! :)