It’s too easy to overlook the countless hours of dedication poured into the open source software that powers our digital lives. I want to take a moment to express my appreciation and admiration for one of the many unsung heroes of my digital world, who’s software I use all the time.

David Peter / sharkdp

GitHub Profile

• Location: Stuttgart, Germany
• Followers: 5684
• Public Repositories: 104
• https://david-peter.de/
• Sponsor David Peter (sharkdp)

These are the projects of theirs that I love & use the most:

bat

A cat(1) clone with wings.

Bat is a cat clone with syntax highlighting for loads of languages, Git integration - and it’s written in Rust, so it works on Linux/Windows/MacOS. It’s completely replaced cat for me:

alias cat="bat"

fd

A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to ‘find …

Open source developers are often the unsung heroes of the technology world, creating & maintaining the software that powers our digital lives. Sadly, their contributions often go unnoticed, but without their dedication and expertise, much of the software & digital infrastructure what we take for granted today wouldn’t exist.

I want to recognize the brilliant work of one developer and express my gratitude to them for making the world a better place through open source.

Zachary Yedidia / zyedidia

GitHub Profile

• Location: Stanford, CA
• Followers: 644
• Public Repositories: 175
• Stanford University
• https://zyedidia.github.io

These are the projects of theirs that I love & use the most:

eget

Easily install prebuilt binaries from GitHub.

Most of the software on my machine comes from the systems package manager, and is automatically kept up to date. The problems with this, is that …

Open source developers are often the unsung heroes of the technology world, creating & maintaining the software that powers our digital lives. Sadly, their contributions often go unnoticed, but without their dedication and expertise, much of the software & digital infrastructure what we take for granted today wouldn’t exist.

I want to recognize the awesome work of one developer and express my gratitude to them for making the world a better place through open source.

Andrew Gallant / burntsushi

GitHub Profile

I love to code.

• Location: Marlborough, MA
• Followers: 7905
• Public Repositories: 156
• @salesforce
• https://burntsushi.net

These are the projects of theirs that I love & use the most:

ripgrep

ripgrep recursively searches directories for a regex pattern while respecting your gitignore

Ripgrep is a superfast replacement for grep, ag, ack etc…​ It’s not just way faster than all …