Repo Radar https://grasppy.com/radar/ A dozen open-source repositories, checked and reviewed, every day. en-us Twelve repositories for building code and keeping the rest runninghttps://grasppy.com/radar/no-47/https://grasppy.com/radar/no-47/Sun, 11 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000Five hidden gems, three basic tools rewritten in Rust, and a release date that was wrong by exactly one year. Twelve repositories for publishing, billing and listening to customershttps://grasppy.com/radar/no-46/https://grasppy.com/radar/no-46/Sat, 10 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000Five hidden gems, eleven of the sixteen areas, and a Photoshop clone that is ten days old. Twelve repositories for watching, scheduling and measuring what you runhttps://grasppy.com/radar/no-45/https://grasppy.com/radar/no-45/Fri, 09 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000Grist'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. Twelve repositories for writing things down, keeping references and checking codehttps://grasppy.com/radar/no-44/https://grasppy.com/radar/no-44/Thu, 08 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000A 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. Twelve repositories for checking what you are actually runninghttps://grasppy.com/radar/no-43/https://grasppy.com/radar/no-43/Wed, 07 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000A 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. Twelve repositories for watching a machine, keeping things out, and moneyhttps://grasppy.com/radar/no-42/https://grasppy.com/radar/no-42/Tue, 06 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000Netdata'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. Twelve repositories for building, publishing and reading what you keephttps://grasppy.com/radar/no-41/https://grasppy.com/radar/no-41/Mon, 05 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000A licence file that gives you written permission to swap it for a different licence, and eleven more projects opened and checked this morning. Twelve repositories for images, fonts, audio tags and plain-text moneyhttps://grasppy.com/radar/no-40/https://grasppy.com/radar/no-40/Sun, 04 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000Two of today's twelve ship a licence with the copyright line never filled in, and one of them has 95,920 stars. Twelve repositories for deploying, counting and checking what you shiphttps://grasppy.com/radar/no-39/https://grasppy.com/radar/no-39/Sat, 03 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000A deploy tool, two privacy counters, three money libraries and five tools that read what is really inside a file, a model or an image. Twelve repositories for writing code, keeping notes and letting people inhttps://grasppy.com/radar/no-38/https://grasppy.com/radar/no-38/Fri, 02 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000A single sign-on project changed both its owner and its name, and only its own repository says so. Twelve repositories for drawing it, building it and giving people somewhere to ask about ithttps://grasppy.com/radar/no-37/https://grasppy.com/radar/no-37/Thu, 01 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000A paid diagram layout engine was made free three weeks ago, and its own repository still asks for a licence key. Twelve repositories for moving files, checking code and watching your own machineshttps://grasppy.com/radar/no-36/https://grasppy.com/radar/no-36/Wed, 30 Sep 2026 08:00:00 +0000A tool with 38,600 stars has taken no new code for twenty-one months, and nothing on its page says so. Twelve repositories for checking your code, your files and your billshttps://grasppy.com/radar/no-35/https://grasppy.com/radar/no-35/Tue, 29 Sep 2026 08:00:00 +0000A file manager with 35,900 stars was archived last month and will get no more security patches. Twelve repositories for cloning a voice, watching a database and sending an invoicehttps://grasppy.com/radar/no-34/https://grasppy.com/radar/no-34/Mon, 28 Sep 2026 08:00:00 +0000One binary that does everything to a PDF, a Postgres dashboard in one command, and seven well-known projects that quietly stopped. Twelve repositories for running your own toolshttps://grasppy.com/radar/no-33/https://grasppy.com/radar/no-33/Sun, 27 Sep 2026 08:00:00 +0000A drawing library with 49,000 stars turns out to check your licence and report back, and eleven other projects opened and verified this morning. Twelve repositories for cleaning data, guarding a server and shipping a sitehttps://grasppy.com/radar/no-32/https://grasppy.com/radar/no-32/Sat, 26 Sep 2026 08:00:00 +0000One of them was Google's, until Google let it go in 2012. Twelve repositories for guarding a server, reading a PDF and tidying a folderhttps://grasppy.com/radar/no-31/https://grasppy.com/radar/no-31/Fri, 25 Sep 2026 08:00:00 +0000Twelve areas, one repository each, and a prose linter whose GitHub page now says it is only a copy. Twelve repositories for watching a machine, backing it up and publishing what it holdshttps://grasppy.com/radar/no-30/https://grasppy.com/radar/no-30/Thu, 24 Sep 2026 08:00:00 +0000Jellyfin's release after 10.11.11 is 12.1, and the missing version 11 was a deliberate decision. Twelve repositories for keeping your own copyhttps://grasppy.com/radar/no-29/https://grasppy.com/radar/no-29/Wed, 23 Sep 2026 08:00:00 +0000An AI agent with 54,000 stars changed owners without announcing it, and a licence GitHub calls Apache-2.0 turns out to say something else. Twelve repositories for reading what you already havehttps://grasppy.com/radar/no-28/https://grasppy.com/radar/no-28/Tue, 22 Sep 2026 08:00:00 +0000A personal finance app with 54,332 stars turned out to be archived, and ten projects this report could not verify were finally settled. Twelve repositories for the six subjects last week missedhttps://grasppy.com/radar/no-27/https://grasppy.com/radar/no-27/Mon, 21 Sep 2026 08:00:00 +0000One entry's own website refused the program we sent to read it, which is the clearest proof that it works. Twelve repositories for skills, sound, models and moneyhttps://grasppy.com/radar/no-26/https://grasppy.com/radar/no-26/Sun, 20 Sep 2026 08:00:00 +0000Three of them came from your own requests, and the most starred one installs as a single Markdown file. Twelve repositories for reading the web, checking your work and drawing your ideashttps://grasppy.com/radar/no-25/https://grasppy.com/radar/no-25/Sat, 19 Sep 2026 08:00:00 +0000A markup language from the author of pandoc, three ways to turn web pages into clean text, and the whiteboard with 131,000 stars. Twelve repositories for building and keeping a small product runninghttps://grasppy.com/radar/no-24/https://grasppy.com/radar/no-24/Fri, 18 Sep 2026 08:00:00 +0000The best-known tool for updating Docker containers was archived in December, and today's smallest entry does the same job. Twelve repositories for the tools you open every dayhttps://grasppy.com/radar/no-23/https://grasppy.com/radar/no-23/Thu, 17 Sep 2026 08:00:00 +0000A shell history you can actually search, a PostgreSQL index you can test before building it, and a 151,000-star project whose licence is not open source. You can run SQL queries on your log filehttps://grasppy.com/radar/no-22/https://grasppy.com/radar/no-22/Wed, 16 Sep 2026 08:00:00 +0000A log file is a wall of lines. When something breaks at eleven at night, you scroll. The whole backend is one file you download and runhttps://grasppy.com/radar/no-21/https://grasppy.com/radar/no-21/Tue, 15 Sep 2026 08:00:00 +0000Most software that stores your users, their files and their data arrives as a pile. Two of today's twelve have moved off GitHub to Codeberghttps://grasppy.com/radar/no-20/https://grasppy.com/radar/no-20/Mon, 14 Sep 2026 08:00:00 +0000Twenty editions in, and today two of the twelve carry the same short note in their README: development has moved to Codeberg. gallery-dl (#10) and audiowaveform (#12) both still publish their releases on GitHub, so from A job scheduler that needs no database at allhttps://grasppy.com/radar/no-19/https://grasppy.com/radar/no-19/Sun, 13 Sep 2026 08:00:00 +0000Most tools that run jobs on a schedule ask you to install a database first, then a message queue, then a worker. Open Props has not cut a release in three years, and it is not deadhttps://grasppy.com/radar/no-18/https://grasppy.com/radar/no-18/Sat, 12 Sep 2026 08:00:00 +0000Today is about the boring half of a software business. Backups that work. Two of today's twelve have no licence file at allhttps://grasppy.com/radar/no-17/https://grasppy.com/radar/no-17/Fri, 11 Sep 2026 08:00:00 +0000Two projects in today's edition carry no licence file on GitHub. A plugin with 134,000 stars that makes AI write less codehttps://grasppy.com/radar/no-16/https://grasppy.com/radar/no-16/Thu, 10 Sep 2026 08:00:00 +0000The most popular thing in today's edition does not add a feature to anything. Jobs that run on their ownhttps://grasppy.com/radar/no-15/https://grasppy.com/radar/no-15/Wed, 09 Sep 2026 08:00:00 +0000Fourteen editions have covered tools. Almost every one of them is a thing you open, use, and close. Edition No. 14https://grasppy.com/radar/no-14/https://grasppy.com/radar/no-14/Tue, 08 Sep 2026 08:00:00 +0000 Twelve repositories for a one-person video channelhttps://grasppy.com/radar/no-13/https://grasppy.com/radar/no-13/Mon, 07 Sep 2026 08:00:00 +0000The voice, the cut, the loudness, the captions, and where the finished file goes. Twelve repositories for making a small site look deliberatehttps://grasppy.com/radar/no-12/https://grasppy.com/radar/no-12/Sun, 06 Sep 2026 08:00:00 +0000Component kits, icons, self-hosted fonts, and the tools that stop a page looking like four separate afternoons. Twelve repositories for taking money on your own termshttps://grasppy.com/radar/no-11/https://grasppy.com/radar/no-11/Sat, 05 Sep 2026 08:00:00 +0000Payments, licences, invoices, and the parts of billing nobody wants to build twice. Twelve repositories for writing that has to be readhttps://grasppy.com/radar/no-10/https://grasppy.com/radar/no-10/Fri, 04 Sep 2026 08:00:00 +0000Readability checks, prose linters, translation memory, and the tools that catch what a spellchecker cannot. Edition No. 9https://grasppy.com/radar/no-9/https://grasppy.com/radar/no-9/Thu, 03 Sep 2026 08:00:00 +0000 Edition No. 8https://grasppy.com/radar/no-8/https://grasppy.com/radar/no-8/Wed, 02 Sep 2026 08:00:00 +0000 Edition No. 7https://grasppy.com/radar/no-7/https://grasppy.com/radar/no-7/Tue, 01 Sep 2026 08:00:00 +0000 Edition No. 6https://grasppy.com/radar/no-6/https://grasppy.com/radar/no-6/Mon, 31 Aug 2026 08:00:00 +0000 Edition No. 5https://grasppy.com/radar/no-5/https://grasppy.com/radar/no-5/Sun, 30 Aug 2026 08:00:00 +0000 Edition No. 4https://grasppy.com/radar/no-4/https://grasppy.com/radar/no-4/Sat, 29 Aug 2026 08:00:00 +0000 Edition No. 3https://grasppy.com/radar/no-3/https://grasppy.com/radar/no-3/Fri, 28 Aug 2026 08:00:00 +0000 Edition No. 2https://grasppy.com/radar/no-2/https://grasppy.com/radar/no-2/Thu, 27 Aug 2026 08:00:00 +0000 Edition No. 1https://grasppy.com/radar/no-1/https://grasppy.com/radar/no-1/Fri, 21 Aug 2026 08:00:00 +0000