Weekly newsletter featuring fresh trending Github projects. The top 20 picks every week.
✉️ Email newsletter | 🔔 GitHub inbox notifications | 📶 RSS feed
I wrote about my motive in a blog post. If you're curious about the technical details, the post covers that too.
You can subscribe via one of the these channels:
- Github notifications (via releases)
- Email newsletter
- RSS feed (individual repo feeds)
Cadence: weekly (every Monday)
The recommend channel is Github release:
- Click Watch 👀
- Select Custom
- Check Releases
That's it. You will get notified once a new release is published.
Note
If you watch releases only, you won't show up among the repo's watchers.
Cadence: weekly (every Monday)
Subscribe here.
Note
I'm using Google Forms for now. That's a bit amateur-ish and not super encouraging, I know. A fancy subscription page is on my TODO list.
Cadence: twice daily (roughly at 00:00 and 12:00)
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mhadidg/gh-trends/refs/heads/main/feed/rss.xml
Everything is running on Github Actions: serverless, zero operational cost, and fully automated.
Here's how to run it locally:
# Install deps
npm install
# Copy default config
cp .env.example .env
# Run locally (list repos in terminal)
npm run preview:live
# Show me more please
RELEASE_TOP_N=40 npm run preview:live
# Want to go back in time? Sure
SCAN_EVAL_DATE=2025-01-01 npm run preview:live
# Expand the scan window (default is 7 days)
SCAN_DAYS=30 npm run preview:live
Once configured, newsletter emails can be delivered through Resend or Buttondown. Both have free tier more than enough for personal or team-wide use.
You will need to setup secrets (via env vars, see .env.example) to send emails. Those should be configured as
Secrets under the forked repo:
Settings > Secrets and variables > Actions.