Company
Date Published
Author
Kenneth Reitz
Word count
514
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

The fourth edition of The GitHub Reflog highlights notable GitHub repositories and community activities, featuring the project apenwarr/sshuttle as the "Featured Repo of the Week." Sshuttle, known as a "Poor Man's VPN," allows users to connect to a remote machine and forward all network ports to their local machine, effectively routing all traffic through the server with minimal dependencies. The "Awesome Repo of the Week" is asarazan/Narwhalingus-EP, where The Bristol 7’s band shared their EP under a Creative Commons license on GitHub, inviting remixes. Among "Remarkable Repos," jonromero/music-as-data offers a live programming environment for music sequence generation, 37signals/pow provides a zero-config development server for Rack applications, and DanielWaterworth/raphters is a C-based framework for web app development. Promising repos include cldwalker/tux, a Ruby shell interface for Sinatra, and ded/Ender.js, a JavaScript module combining eight utilities into a single API. Feedback and contributions are encouraged, with more open-source news available through The Changelog and GitHub Explore.