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Zigi

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Dev workflow assistant.

Slack chatbot for running dev processes. Supports common tasks like managing open PRs, reminding people assigned to tasks, changing linked JIRA ticket statuses, getting a morning task summary. Reminders sent as normal Slack messages so full chat context can be maintained. Team leader view shows open tasks across all team members.

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exa

Replacement for ls.

Makes listing files much better - uses shell colors, shows Git status, optionally shows file type icons, human readable file sizes, useful defaults for showing metadata in long view. Tree view for recursing into sub directories. Can sort and filter using globs and gitignore. Executes queries in parallel. Open source.

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pre-commit

Manage Git hooks.

Declaratively manage Git hooks in a single config file. Handles installing runtimes and dependencies e.g. Node for a hook script written in JS. Clean output which shows pass/fail status of each hook when triggered. Configure files, excludes, filetypes, that it will run against. Open source.

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