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Interesting GitHub Repositories in May 2019

Petr Plavjaník
5 min readMay 12, 2019

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Here I will review the first 10 trending GitHub repositories in this month that are documented in English.

A galaxy of starred repositories / CC0 Public Domain

1) 996icu / 996.ICU

⭑ 33,776 stars this month︲https://github.com/996icu/996.ICU

Tech workers in China started a GitHub repository titled 996.ICU. It is a reference to the grueling and illegal working hours of many tech companies in China. From 9 am to 9 pm, 6 days a week. “By following the ‘996’ work schedule, you are risking yourself getting into the ICU (Intensive Care Unit),” says the 996.ICU GitHub project description. The project calls for Chinese tech companies to obey the labor laws in China and the international labor convention.

What can you do?

In a future blog, we will review the awesome GitHub projects of Chinese developers.

2) microsoft / Terminal

⭑ 32,513 stars this month︲C++︲118,823 lines of code︲https://github.com/microsoft/Terminal

Microsoft has announced a new terminal for Windows 10 a week ago. Windows Terminal is a new, modern, fast, efficient, powerful, and productive…

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Petr Plavjaník
Petr Plavjaník

Written by Petr Plavjaník

Petr’s main areas of expertise are mainframes and automation, and using modern development tools and languages such as Java, Python, and Node.js on z/OS.

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