Repo Roundup April 14th

A weekly human curated roundup of interesting repos and projects. Some are brand new, others have recent activity and are new to me.

Anubis

https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis/#setting-up-anubis

Anubis is a tool used to limit bots from accessing your site. It was developed in response to a massive influx of AI scrapers hammering on sites and consuming system bandwidth and resources. What makes it novel is that it employs a proof of work (making the client do some work) in order to gain access to a website. For most browsers this will be largely unnoticeable but for bots at scale it drastically reduces their ability to crawl sites.

Git MCP

https://github.com/idosal/git-mcp

While github now has their own rather extensive MCP server, GitMCP it lightweight and allows you to configure your AI assistant to easily access to analyze the code, summarize it, etc. It takes about 30 seconds to setup and you can run prompts like “Can you summarize the following repository and explain what it does? https://github.com/idosal/git-mcp”

Apache Echarts

https://echarts.apache.org/en/index.html

Echarts is not new but it hasn’t been a tool I’ve reached for and it should be. Practically every project we work on has some need for charting. E-charts has a fairly extensive range of available charts, good documentation AND it is open source.

UV

https://github.com/astral-sh/uv

While not brand new, UV is a relative newcomer in the Python ecosystem and very actively developed. It is a python package/project manager that essentially replaces pip, pip-tools, pipx, poetry, pyenv, twine and virtualenv. While re-writing all the things in Rust has practically become a meme, UV is a rethink of existing tools while being fast and effective. I now use it for all my Python projects.