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Protocol Buffers - Google's data interchange format
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🕵️♂️ All-in-one OSINT tool for analysing any website
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prompts.chat is a free, open-source platform for discovering, sharing, and curating high-quality AI prompts. Self-hostable, privacy-first, and built by the community.
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TypeScript is a typed superset of JavaScript that compiles to plain JavaScript.
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Microsoft PowerToys is a collection of utilities that help you customize Windows and streamline everyday tasks
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Imgbot
Imgbot is a friendly robot that optimizes your images and saves you time. Optimized images mean smaller file sizes without sacrificing quality.
Shortly after installing Imgbot, you will receive a pull request with all of your images optimized. Just merge the pull request and you’re done! As you work on your project, Imgbot works alongside you to keep your images optimized.
Imgbot uses lossless compression by default.
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This repo powers my experiment where ChatGPT manages a real-money micro-cap stock portfolio.
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📑 PageIndex: Document Index for Reasoning-based RAG
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Free Introduction to Bash Scripting eBook
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Pull Checklist
Pull Checklist: PR automations you don't have to build yourself
Stop debugging GitHub Actions just to enforce basic PR rules. Pull
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