Repo Roundup April 21st

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.