Repo Roundup April 28th

Weekly round up of new and interesting projects that are on my radar. I’m currently playing around with Deep Live Cam and plan to share a blog post on the results soon.

PocketBase

https://github.com/pocketbase/pocketbase

I often work on small utility side-projects that require a data store. Pocketbase is an open source back-end solution that can be distributed as a single binary. It generates an embedded SQL database with subscription capabilities, auth, file server, restful API and much more. Think of it like a swiss army knife utility for laying some foundational functionality for projects that require a DB, API and an interface for accessing said data. Really excited to take it for a rip.

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Deep Live Cam

https://github.com/hacksider/Deep-Live-Cam

When compiling this list the ratio of trending AI focussed repos vs non-ai is ~8:1 so I deliberately choose AI libs that stand out and are applicable to what I work on. Last year I spent some time working on my own face swapping tool (via piecing together other libs that did the heavy lifting). It was very cobbled together and required half a dozen libs and was slow. That space is advancing constantly week-over-week. Deep-Live-Cam is currently one of the best tools for producing faceswap videos and if used for comedic purposes is sure to crack a smile. If only someone were to proxy this through a virtual camera interface (like OBSStudio) 😂

Lapce

https://github.com/lapce/lapce

While there are many code editors out there, it is great to see new innovation happening in that space. Lapce bills itself as a lightning-fast code editor written entirely in rust. What sets it apart from just another text editor is it has built in LSP, modal editing, remove development support and a plugin api. It will need to build up a critical mass in terms of the plugin ecosystem before I would use it as a daily driver but I am keeping tabs on it.