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Give Your App Slick Name with namae.dev

uetchy — Wed, 28 Aug 2019 13:29:11 +0000

Have you ever struggled with naming your new OSS project or web app? While hoping no one claimed your desired one in GitHub, npm, Homebrew, PyPI, Domains, etcetera, choosing the best name is weary work.

That's why I created namae.

namae

namae is an inter-platform name availability checker for developers and entrepreneurs.

Once you fill out a form with a name you want to use, namae will check through various registries and check if the name is already in use or not.

Supported Platforms

namae supports 15 package registries and web platforms, and it's growing.

Domains
GitHub Organization
npm / npm Organization
PyPI
RubyGems
Rust (crates.io)
Homebrew / Homebrew Cask
Linux (Launchpad & APT)
Twitter
Spectrum
Slack
Heroku
ZEIT Now
AWS S3
js.org

Additionally, the search result comes with a list of projects which has a similar name on GitHub and App Store.

Name Suggestion

namae also has a unique feature called Name Suggestion. It suggests auto-generated names made up of common prefix/suffix and synonyms. Take look at some examples.

Clicking the suggestion, namae completes the form with it and start searching around the registries.

Open Source

namae is completely open-sourced and the entire source code is available at GitHub. It consists of Node.js Lambda for APIs and React app for the web frontend, and is running on ZEIT Now.

Conclusion

namae saves your time searching for a universally available name around a set of hosting providers and package registries.

Go to namae.dev and grab a report for the availability of your future product name. If you have any suggestion, please leave a comment or poke me on Twitter (@uechz).

Math API: LaTeX Math as SVG image

uetchy — Tue, 23 Oct 2018 01:28:45 +0000

I've always wanted to put LaTeX Math equations on a web page where MathJax is not allowed to run inside it.

Spending some time, I made Math API, that renders LaTeX Math markup into an SVG image.

So you can place your equation on almost everywhere on which you could put <img> or Markdown (![]()), such as GitHub, Jupyter Notebook or dev.to (here!).

![](https://math.now.sh?from=\\LaTeX)

![](https://math.now.sh?from=\\log\\prod^N_{i}x_{i}=\\sum^N_i\\log{x_i})

Inline image

It is possible to generate an inline equation by changing the query from from to inline.

<img src="https://math.now.sh?inline=\\LaTeX" />

Online Editor

Also, there is the online editor available at https://math.now.sh.

Conclusion

The source code is available on GitHub.
Give it a try and leave a comment/idea for a new feature.

Comparing OSS on GitHub

uetchy — Sun, 02 Sep 2018 06:07:07 +0000

You are making a decision on which open source project you would adopt for your newly developing application.

This time it is a little bit difficult for you because the candidates are seemingly almost the same in a functional perspective.

So let's delve into this from a different perspective: contributors and users activities.

More stars, forks, and watchers are the good vital sign of a vibrant project, which indicates many users getting involved with the project.
More issues stand for both good and bad sign but basically it indicates their activeness.
Organization owned projects are, in most cases, more stable and robust than user owned projects.
Size of the repository have complexed meanings but in practice, simpler code is better than the massive one if both are trying to achieve the same goal.

I made a simple tool to get you covered with the above guidelines.

compare-github

compare-github is a simple terminal app to explore your candidates and aggregate a result into a nice-looking report.

npx @compare/github facebook/react vuejs/vue riot/riot

or using yarn:

yarn global add @compare/github
compare-github facebook/react vuejs/vue riot/riot

You will see the GitHub activities for each candidate at once.
It could help you to decide which library you would adopt!

Warmly welcome to any comments/ideas to improve compare-github!

Know your deps in package.json

uetchy — Sun, 02 Sep 2018 05:19:45 +0000

How do you know what packages that project/library depend on and what exactly are that packages doing for?
You'll want to quickly survey on them. So npm-deps-list is here for.

You can install them using npm or yarn.

npm install -g npm-deps-list

Running ndl, you will get a detailed list of dependencies for the package on the current directory.

If you are using iTerm2, you can also Command + Click on a package name to jump to their homepage.

If you have any idea on it, please consider submitting an issue or a pull request!