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by ex-googlers, for ex-googlers - a lookup table of similar tech & services
13 mentions on Hacker News by 13 people: 3 stories, 10 comments · first 2020-11-26 · latest 2026-06-26
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Yes, it is, there's a translation table for xooglers too: https://github.com/jhuangtw/xg2xg The only real difference there (although it is a significant one) is that most of those internal Google tools tended to be very good, often ahead…
comment by CamouflagedKiwi · 2026-06-26 · in An oral history of Bank Python (2021) -
https://github.com/jhuangtw/xg2xg has a broader list
comment by fragmede · 2026-05-13 · in A History of IDEs at Google -
"lookup table of similar technology and services to help ex-googlers survive the real world" https://github.com/jhuangtw/xg2xg
comment by tantalor · 2025-01-16 · in Code reviews: A success story -
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Xg2xg by ex-googlers for ex-googlers a lookup table of similar tech and servicesstory by napsternxg · 2025-01-04 · 0 comments
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…dictionaries to translate the names of Google tools to their tools. Open source ones exist as well: https://github.com/jhuangtw/xg2xg An issue I’ve ran into is startups being very hesitant of hiring Googlers because of a perception that…
comment by bsilvereagle · 2024-06-25 · in Google no longer developing Material Web Components -
What about Mendel and Streamz? I don't see those in https://github.com/jhuangtw/xg2xg
comment by erhaetherth · 2023-11-29 · in An ex-Googler's guide to dev tools (2020) -
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A lookup table of similar tech and services by ex-googlersstory by Alifatisk · 2023-08-13 · 0 comments
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…intranet search engine and mostly relies on in-house tools instead of commercial services (see https://github.com/jhuangtw/xg2xg ). As a result its employees don't really need to rely on Stack Overflow, etc.
comment by science4sail · 2023-06-29 · in Junk websites filled w AI-generated text pulling in money from programmatic ads -
Also, see https://github.com/jhuangtw/xg2xg , a list of open source alternatives to internal Google tech stacks.
comment by lalaithion · 2022-06-02 · in Open Source Alternative To -
…interested in this table table mapping internal tools/technology at Google to public equivalents: https://github.com/jhuangtw/xg2xg
comment by epelesis · 2021-12-16 · in Ask HN: What else don't I know? (that the big tech companied have invented?) -
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Ask HN: What do you miss most about your previous job?story by flakiness · 2021-06-18 · 4 comments
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I found this super useful. It has a bit more suggestions than the article. https://github.com/jhuangtw/xg2xg
comment by pontus · 2020-11-26 · in An ex-Googler’s guide to dev tools -
Refreshing article! For people with less time check out https://github.com/jhuangtw/xg2xg which tracks open source implementations of Google internal tools (also linked in the article) Also I have been looking to move away from Makefiles…
comment by ind3mp0tent · 2020-11-26 · in An ex-Googler’s guide to dev tools