New open-source developer tools, the day they appear.
Most tools worth adopting surface in the noise before anyone writes about them. GH Radar sweeps newly created repositories every day and keeps the ones that look like real developer tooling, so you can filter the flood down to the handful actually worth a look.
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Share your monitors between a Mac and a second computer: switch an external monitor off on the Mac from the menu bar, then bring it back with one shortcut — no unplugging. Name displays, set global hotkeys, Reconnect All. MIT-licensed beta for macOS 26 on Apple Silicon; uses a private display API.
Jev, OpenJev, Luna Decisions and Claude Haiku 4.5 play Skull, a game about lying: the engine, a browser viewer, 518 recorded games, and every number behind the video
hk-elegislation — Hong Kong Ordinances, subsidiary legislation and instruments, bilingually (English and Traditional Chinese, equally authentic), from Hong Kong e-Legislation (Department of Justice), via the bulk archives catalogued on DATA.GOV.HK. Fleet #3130.
Netherlands court decisions (uitspraken en conclusies) — search by court, legal domain and date, resolve by ECLI, read the full original Dutch text. Separate from @pipeworx/nl-wetten (statutes) — this pack is case law.
Private contract Q&A: answers with exact quotes and page citations, local RAG (Docling + hybrid retrieval + Qwen2.5 on Ollama), tested on held-out CUAD contracts. No cloud API.
The mdEditDiff website — a local Mac Markdown editor and shared change history for people and AI agents.
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How the signal is scored
Every repo carries a potential score combining log-scaled stars and forks, recent commit activity, project health, and how deeply it matched the developer-tool topics the collector watches. Stars and forks are log-scaled so a single outlier cannot flatten everything below it, and forks carry their own weight, so a young project people are already building on can outrank a more starred one nobody has adopted.
Age is deliberately excluded. Every repo in the collection is currently the same age, so a growth rate would carry no information and would just rank by raw stars. The weighting is worth revisiting once the collector has covered enough days for velocity to mean something.
I build tools that make other people's work faster, and I ship them in public while I do it.
Most of them started as friction of my own: a component library I needed twice, an automation I was tired of running by hand. They turned out to be useful to people I'll never meet. GH Radar is the same bet. I wanted a way to find what was worth adopting before the noise buried it, so I built one and left it here for anyone else doing the same hunt.
The goal isn't a list of repos. It's a body of open, dependable tools that other developers reach for without thinking twice.