
Game Bytes · September 2023
Game Bytes is our monthly series taking a peek at the world of gamedev on GitHub—featuring game engine updates, game jam details, open source games, mods, maps, and more. Game on!
Welcome to the first edition of The GitHub Reflog. This is a new weekly installment chronicling awesome GitHub repos, brought to you by Kenneth Reitz, one of the classy gentlemen…
Welcome to the first edition of The GitHub Reflog. This is a new weekly installment chronicling awesome GitHub repos, brought to you by Kenneth Reitz, one of the classy gentlemen behind The Changelog and a ton of open source projects.
devstructure/blueprint
This is one of the coolest projects I’ve seen in a long time.
Simply put, Blueprint reverse engineers servers. It scans your system, records installed packages from various managers (aptitude, ruby’s gem, python’s pip, etc), archives software built from source, and records configuration file changes. It then packages your entire server configuration into a bootstrap.sh
file with an attached archive. You can take that bootstrap package and run it anywhere to replicate your server setup.
Then, Blueprint takes it to the next level: it generates full recipes/manifests for both Chef and Puppet with the blueprint-create {-C | -P}
command.
Of course, QA is required for the resulting recipes, but it’s a definitely a great first step for streamlining your existing systems.
Bon appétit!
drbrain/meme
I CAN HAS MEME? Meme is an awesome Ruby gem for generating memegenerator.net images from the command line. It features SPARTA, PHILOSORAPTOR, KEANU, TROLLFACE, and many more. The resulting pull requests are definitely worth looking at.
$ meme US_POINT 'I want you' 'to merge this'
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