10 Weird OSS Projects You Actually Need
From Carbon (code-to-image), nektos/act (run GitHub Actions locally), to Ink (React-based terminal UI) — 10 OSS projects that each solve one specific problem really well.
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9Router: Wire Every AI Coding Tool to 40+ Providers, with Automatic Fallback So You Never Hit a Quota Wall
Point your tools' endpoint at localhost:20128 and 9Router automatically does three-tier fallback across subscription services, cheap APIs, and free services — refreshing expired tokens on its own, translating between OpenAI and Claude formats, and using RTK to shave 20–40% off tool-output tokens.
RTK: A Rust Tool That Cuts AI Coding Assistant Token Usage by 60–90%
Install one Rust binary, and the output of commands like git/grep/test/docker gets compressed before reaching the AI context — a 30-minute Claude Code session drops from roughly 118,000 tokens to about 23,900.