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A dozen open-source repositories, checked and reviewed, every day.

Every repository here has been opened, not just listed. I check the last release date, read the licence, and say when a project is dead. I also publish the ones that were checked and did not make it, and why.

558Repos reviewed

153Under 3k stars

16Areas of coverage

We aim for twelve every day. Some candidates fall out while we check them — those are listed at the end, with the reason.

Twelve repositories for building code and keeping the rest running

Five hidden gems, three basic tools rewritten in Rust, and a release date that was wrong by exactly one year.

11 Oct 2026·12 repos·17 min read

Twelve repositories for publishing, billing and listening to customers

Five hidden gems, eleven of the sixteen areas, and a Photoshop clone that is ten days old.

10 Oct 2026·12 repos·16 min read

Twelve repositories for watching, scheduling and measuring what you run

Grist's own README says that its default install downloads code that is not under a free or open-source licence, into a folder called ext.

9 Oct 2026·12 repos·15 min read

Twelve repositories for writing things down, keeping references and checking code

A coding assistant with 36,054 stars declares itself read-only in its own README while GitHub shows no archived banner and its documentation still reads as live.

8 Oct 2026·12 repos·14 min read

Twelve repositories for checking what you are actually running

A helpdesk asking for an eight-year-dead database, an invoicing app you may not host for other people, and ten more projects read line by line.

7 Oct 2026·12 repos·16 min read

Twelve repositories for watching a machine, keeping things out, and money

Netdata's own release notes tell you not to install the version GitHub serves as its latest, and a trading library with 2,501 stars ships no licence file at all.

6 Oct 2026·12 repos·14 min read

Earlier editions

41 more · 466 repositories

No. 415 Oct 2026Twelve repositories for building, publishing and reading what you keep12 repos→No. 404 Oct 2026Twelve repositories for images, fonts, audio tags and plain-text money12 repos→No. 393 Oct 2026Twelve repositories for deploying, counting and checking what you ship12 repos→No. 382 Oct 2026Twelve repositories for writing code, keeping notes and letting people in12 repos→No. 371 Oct 2026Twelve repositories for drawing it, building it and giving people somewhere to ask about it12 repos→No. 3630 Sep 2026Twelve repositories for moving files, checking code and watching your own machines12 repos→No. 3529 Sep 2026Twelve repositories for checking your code, your files and your bills12 repos→No. 3428 Sep 2026Twelve repositories for cloning a voice, watching a database and sending an invoice12 repos→No. 3327 Sep 2026Twelve repositories for running your own tools12 repos→No. 3226 Sep 2026Twelve repositories for cleaning data, guarding a server and shipping a site12 repos→No. 3125 Sep 2026Twelve repositories for guarding a server, reading a PDF and tidying a folder12 repos→No. 3024 Sep 2026Twelve repositories for watching a machine, backing it up and publishing what it holds12 repos→No. 2923 Sep 2026Twelve repositories for keeping your own copy12 repos→No. 2822 Sep 2026Twelve repositories for reading what you already have12 repos→No. 2721 Sep 2026Twelve repositories for the six subjects last week missed12 repos→No. 2620 Sep 2026Twelve repositories for skills, sound, models and money12 repos→No. 2519 Sep 2026Twelve repositories for reading the web, checking your work and drawing your ideas12 repos→No. 2418 Sep 2026Twelve repositories for building and keeping a small product running12 repos→No. 2317 Sep 2026Twelve repositories for the tools you open every day12 repos→No. 2216 Sep 2026You can run SQL queries on your log file12 repos→No. 2115 Sep 2026The whole backend is one file you download and run12 repos→No. 2014 Sep 2026Two of today's twelve have moved off GitHub to Codeberg12 repos→No. 1913 Sep 2026A job scheduler that needs no database at all12 repos→No. 1812 Sep 2026Open Props has not cut a release in three years, and it is not dead12 repos→No. 1711 Sep 2026Two of today's twelve have no licence file at all12 repos→No. 1610 Sep 2026A plugin with 134,000 stars that makes AI write less code12 repos→No. 159 Sep 2026Jobs that run on their own12 repos→No. 148 Sep 2026Edition No. 1411 repos→No. 137 Sep 2026Twelve repositories for a one-person video channel12 repos→No. 126 Sep 2026Twelve repositories for making a small site look deliberate12 repos→No. 115 Sep 2026Twelve repositories for taking money on your own terms12 repos→No. 104 Sep 2026Twelve repositories for writing that has to be read12 repos→No. 93 Sep 2026Edition No. 912 repos→No. 82 Sep 2026Edition No. 811 repos→No. 71 Sep 2026Edition No. 712 repos→No. 631 Aug 2026Edition No. 612 repos→No. 530 Aug 2026Edition No. 512 repos→No. 429 Aug 2026Edition No. 412 repos→No. 328 Aug 2026Edition No. 312 repos→No. 227 Aug 2026Edition No. 20 repos→No. 121 Aug 2026Edition No. 10 repos→

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