Company
Date Published
Author
Kenneth Reitz
Word count
463
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

The second edition of The GitHub Reflog is a weekly showcase of notable GitHub repositories, featuring both innovative projects and promising newcomers. Highlighted projects include koggdal/ocanvas, which simplifies Canvas region manipulation with an intuitive API and event system; evanphx/gx, a tool designed to streamline Git merge conflict resolution; BigZaphod/Chameleon, an ambitious project aiming to replicate Apple's UIKit for OSX applications; and jugyo/earthquake, a Twitter client for terminals that emerged during Japan's recent earthquakes. Other noteworthy mentions are twigkit/tempo, a JavaScript template engine for rendering JSON content, and shinh/maloader, a loader for running Xcode tools on Linux. Additionally, antimatter15/player demonstrates HTML5's potential by playing MP3 files directly from the browser. Feedback and suggestions are encouraged, with more open-source news available through The Changelog and GitHub's explore page.