Open Source and AI Are Taking Ideas Out of the Drawer
The tools becoming available as open source are extraordinary. Combine them with AI, and those ideas sitting in the drawers of your brain start looking a lot more achievable.
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I Built a World Clock Because Time Zones Are Not Math
Cross-border calls made me want more than a row of clocks. So I built Meridian Clock: a private, offline world clock and time zone converter that handles daylight-saving edge cases.
Baidu's Unlimited OCR Turns Complex PDFs Into Markdown
Unlimited OCR from Baidu is an open-source local document parser that turns PDFs into Markdown and works to preserve the structure and meaning inside complex pages.
Book-to-Skill Turns Books Into Agent Skills
Book-to-skill turns books, PDFs, manuals, and document collections into reusable agent skills that can be invoked while you work.
Omarchy Makes Computing Feel Beautiful Again
Omarchy is DHH’s beautiful, modern, opinionated Linux environment built around Arch, and it is making computing feel playful and exciting again.
Open-Source Legal Templates Worth Bookmarking
A useful GitHub find: attorney-drafted open-source legal templates for startups and technology companies, released under a CC0 license.
Discovering Open-Source Projects via X
Finding great open-source projects often comes down to patient discovery. X can be a useful place to search for GitHub projects, useful builders, and hidden technical gems.