What do your GitHub starred repos really say about you?

Open-source software tools continue to increase in popularity because of the multiple advantages they provide including lower upfront software and hardware costs, lower total-cost-of-ownership, lack of vendor lock-in, simpler license management and support from active communities.

In the following slides, as part of the CRN 2024 Year In Review project, we take a look at some of the most popular open-source software products that have caught our attention this year.

w2vgrep is a command-line tool that performs semantic searches on text input using word embeddings. It's designed to find semantically similar matches to the query, going beyond simple string matching. Supports multiple languages. The experience is designed to be similar to grep.

Napkin turns your text into visuals so sharing your ideas is quick and effective.

Store your data from all your accounts and devices in a single cohesive timeline on your own computer.

Scooter is an interactive find-and-replace terminal UI app.

Search with either a fixed string or a regular expression, enter a replacement, and interactively toggle which instances you want to replace. You can also specify a regex pattern for the file paths you want to search.

SSHamble is a research tool for SSH implementations that includes:

• Interesting attacks against authentication
• Post-session authentication attacks
• Pre-authentication state transitions
• Authentication timing analysis
• Post-session enumeration

Developers looking to continue working in the C and C++ programming languages amid the global push to promote memory-safe programming now have another option that doesn't involve learning Rust. Filip Pizlo, senior director of language engineering at Epic Games, has created his own memory-safe flavor of C and – because why not …

Formulosity is a self-hosted app for building and deploying the surveys using code instead of traditional survey builders.

A command line journal inspired by https://github.com/jrnl-org/jrnl I wanted to have a minimal journaling system that would store my files encrypted, and be easy to setup across multiple devices without needing too many dependencies.