Just Wondering Around Github, Looking for a Software Fix

The mark of a good Internet citizen is whether they star the GitHub repositories they like and whether they upvote helpful posts on Reddit. As someone who devotes a lot of time to online communities, racking up a few Internet points always feels good. I used to be slightly intimidated by GitHub. For the most part, it's full of indie apps by individual devs, so there isn't a marketing department designing websites and writing copy. It's just the same dude who coded the app you want to try. If you spend time looking around, you find that GitHub also contains plenty of goodies that aren't apps. There are repositories for scripts, app settings, Black Friday deals, and more. I'm not a dev, but even I have a couple of public repos. On one, I share my collection of 800 Keyboard Maestro macros, plus Hazel rules and Better Touch Tool actions. My other public repo is a collection of markdown documents with quotes from people wiser than me. I added over 300 new notes there last week.

One obsessive soul created a repo where he documented 1,600 Obsidian extensions AND another for 1,700 Raycast extensions. It's impossible, I think, to keep something like that up to date, but both are good resources.

You can see a list of 81 repositories I felt worthy of being added to my Raindrop collection here. Here are a few highlights. I'm always looking for more, so hit me up if you have anything to share.

macOS Apps & Utilities

MAS

Command-line interface for the Mac App Store. Search, install, update, and manage App Store apps from the terminal. Easy to use as part of a launchd item or cron job to force updates when the Mac App Store is being stubborn about doing it for you.

Mole

Terminal-based tool for cleaning, uninstalling, analyzing, optimizing, and monitoring your Mac. This is the free version that does almost everything the GUI (which is not free) does.

Cardinal

Fast macOS file search app using Everything-compatible syntax with filters for file type, size, tags, and content.

Obsidian

Obsidian Webclipper Templates

Customizable Obsidian Webclipper templates with LLM integration that automatically organize and categorize clipped web content into structured notes. I've tried every way known to mankind to get selected web content into my vault.

This is the way.

Automators Vault

Obsidian vault for the late great Automators Podcast community, containing automation-related notes, show notes, and resources.

Raycast

script-commands

Official Raycast collection of community-contributed script commands you can install and run directly from the launcher.

raycast_extensions_by_downloads

Auto-generated, regularly updated ranking of Raycast extensions sorted by download count.

Automation and Scripting

Tools for automating tasks on macOS and the command line.

Gum

Charm tool for writing interactive shell scripts with styled prompts, spinners, and formatted output.

Topgrade

Single command to upgrade everything on your system -- The Mac App Store, package managers, Homebrew apps, runtimes, and more -- all at once. See also Topgrade - Upgrade All the Things | AppAddict and How to Use Topgrade Silently and Automatically for Multiple Update Protocols (Free) | AppAddict

Privacy, Networking and Security

DNS Easy Switcher

Simple macOS app for quickly switching between DNS server configurations.

Betterfox

Firefox user.js configuration file for optimal privacy and security hardening without breaking normal browsing.

Curated Lists & Directories

Awesome lists, resource hubs, and community-maintained directories.

awesome-mac

High-quality, community-curated list of macOS software, tools, and resources organized by category.

open-source-mac-os-apps

Comprehensive list of open-source macOS applications available for free, organized by type.

Black-Friday-Deals

Community-maintained list of Black Friday deals on macOS/iOS software and books, updated annually.

AI & Language Models

Tools for running, hosting, and working with AI and local language models.

apfel

Exposes Apple's built-in on-device language model as a local OpenAI-compatible API server on macOS. Enables AI capabilities without cloud APIs or API keys.

llamafile

Distribute and run LLMs as a single self-contained executable file. Removes the complexity of setting up local models across platforms.