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24 alternatives to Flashlight – Spotlight's missing plugin system
The missing Spotlight plugin system. Contribute to nate-parrott/Flashlight development by creating an account on GitHub.
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Flashlight – Spotlight's missing plugin system launched in 2014; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Lightwell▲262A simple tool for creating native iOS apps on Mac 💻 📲
2018 · stuartkerrs.com · its alternatives →
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GitHub Dark▲122🔦 GitHub Dark - Browse GitHub in nighttime mode 🌚
2016 · cquanu.github.io · its alternatives →
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Darkness v2▲219Beautiful dark themes for your favorite websites
2018 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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A Chrome extension to experience GitHub in night mode.
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hey hn! I'm one of the co-founders of highlight.io, an open source monitoring tool. Today we're sharing a ClickHouse-based logging solution we've been working on. We wanted to showcase how we built it and share how you could try it out to give feedback. Since we started working on highlight.io, we've been hyper-focused on "cohesion", or ensuring that when you install your monitoring stack, all of the resources in that stack (user interactions, requests, traces, logs, etc.) are connected in a consumable way. We've written up more about our philosophy on this here [1]. We started building…
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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An embedded editor for Clojure. Contribute to oakes/Nightlight development by creating an account on GitHub.
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Stream Deck plugin displays your GitHub contributions graph.
2024 · marketplace.elgato.com · its alternatives →
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Hacker Tab▲123Replace Browser new tab with GitHub trending projects. ✨
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Intuitive analytics for open source repositories
2020 · xscode.com · its alternatives →
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Open a web search in your terminal. Contribute to zquestz/s development by creating an account on GitHub.
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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An extension of Refined GitHub browser plugin for AI contribution tracking capabilities in GitHub pull requests.
Feb 2026 · blog.rbby.dev · its alternatives →
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Contribute to pd4d10/omni-viewer development by creating an account on GitHub.
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Scope linter for coffeescript. Contribute to za-creature/coffeescope development by creating an account on GitHub.
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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github feed as notifications in your desktop. Contribute to kessler/node-octofications development by creating an account on GitHub.
2015 · github.com · its alternatives →
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