A weekly human curated roundup of interesting repos and projects for the week of April 21st. Some are brand new, others have recent activity and are new to me.
Authentik
https://github.com/goauthentik/authentik
While Authentik is not a brand new library, I was not familiar with it. The project and the documentation appear very well done. Almost every project we work on at The Gnar Company has an authentication component. Having an additional, open-source option to reach for will be beneficial for our dev team and our clients.
Fiber
https://github.com/gofiber/fiber
The Go community typically eschews using frameworks in favor of stdlib; however, I see benefit in having a minimalistic framework that provides additional tools above and beyond what is included in stdlib. While there are a number of great, battle-tested Golang web frameworks, the community benefits by having new options come along. The performance benchmarks for Fiber look impressive.
Crystal 1.16.0
https://crystal-lang.org/2025/04/09/1.16.0-released/
While Crystal is not a widely used language, it remains one of my favorite languages. It has the developer experience of Ruby but with the benefit of being extremely performant and adding type guardrails. I reach for it frequently on internal projects. I'm glad to see it is continuing to grow and evolve.
Nicholas Maloney is a Co-Founder of The Gnar Company, where he leverages over two decades of software industry experience to transform complex ideas into foundational digital products. He specializes in building scalable software solutions, implementing AI-driven applications, and leading high-performing development teams. A veteran engineer and Certified Scrum Master, Nick is dedicated to creating elegant, impactful solutions that solve gnarly problems and drive business growth.
Before co-founding The Gnar Company in 2016, Nick served as Lead Engineer at MeYou Health and was a Senior Software Engineer at Terrible Labs, where he built digital products for a range of clients from startups to large enterprises. His career also includes technical roles at Massachusetts General Hospital's MIND Informatics and a four-year tenure as a Web Architect at Bentley University. Nick holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Information Systems from Bentley University.
