The Github Pirates (codepirat.es)

4 points by edanhewitt 14y ago ↗ HN

The Github Pirates is a constantly updated resource for those interested in HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript. Despite the name, the project doesn't actually pirate Github repositories, but gathers open-source content from Github and puts it into a single repository for the following reasons:

    Ease of reference
    Quality
    Preservation
    Exposure

The Github Pirates is an attempt to make sense of the large amount of frontend web-development gold that exists on Github at the moment. Every now and then, I check the wonderful resource, Pinboard, and more often than not - find a bit of JS/CSS/HTML5 gold pushed to Github. Github has been around a while now, and as any web developer knows, it can be hard to sift through the noise that is currently abound on Github; particularly over the 6 months, I have seen a rise of fellow githubbers releasing pretty much everything they have in their arsenal of Web development tools.

Whilst this is important, and shouldn't go overlooked, I feel, as ever, there is a large propensity towards noise as a result. Enter The Github Pirates. You see, I roam the Github badlands, late at night, in search for trinkets and gems of web development awesome-sauce.

When I download the scripts, I often feel I own a bit of history, because as anyone will tell you - the internet is forever changing. Sure, all the mega-brands, and mega-sites will always be there, but I often feel compelled to mirror things when I get an inkling it won't be around much longer.

Github shutting down? Well hardly, but they are a free service, and I am always wary of anything 'free' on the net. Especially 'services' that honeypot user generated content. Sure, Github has paid plans for the big boys, but I do worry about everyday Joe who relies on Github on a daily basis to sustain his repo indefinetly, and keep it there when times get bad.

Solutions? Get involved in the Github Pirates! A museum for quality web-dev related Github content. http://codepirat.es/

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