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An open-source API development ecosystem for testing HTTP, WebSocket, GraphQL, and other APIs with real-time collaboration.
A privacy-focused, open-source note-taking app with end-to-end encrypted sync across all major platforms.
An open-source API development ecosystem for testing HTTP, WebSocket, GraphQL, and other APIs with real-time collaboration.
A distributed cloud-native messaging and streaming platform for building event-driven applications with high performance and reliability.
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A modern RPC framework for .NET and Unity that provides unified real-time communication and API services using gRPC.
A Linux distribution for threat hunting, enterprise security monitoring, and log management.
A high-performance, LevelDB/RocksDB-inspired key-value database written in Go, optimized for CockroachDB.
A reactive Python notebook that's reproducible, git-friendly, and deployable as scripts or apps.
A web-based PaaS/Linux panel for self-hosting 200+ open-source applications on a single server with Docker and Kubernetes management.
A dynamic stylesheet language that extends CSS with variables, mixins, functions, and more.
A Swagger/OpenAPI toolchain for .NET, ASP.NET Core, and TypeScript that generates specifications and client code.
An open-source, all-in-one development platform providing backend infrastructure and web hosting for web, mobile, and AI applications.
A versatile open-source tool for interfacing with and debugging digital electronics through a USB-connected FPGA board.
A privacy-focused web browser that blocks trackers and ads by default while rewarding users with Basic Attention Tokens.
A pure Go library for creating, editing, and processing Microsoft Office Open XML documents (DOCX, XLSX, PPTX).
An extremely fast Python package and project manager written in Rust, replacing multiple existing tools.
A distributed, multi-tenant gateway providing serverless SQL on data warehouses and lakehouses.
A multi-threaded Python brute-forcing tool with a modular design for reliable and flexible password guessing attacks.
A masterless, cloud-scale, fault-tolerant distributed computation system for batch and stream processing written in Clojure.
An extremely fast Python package and project manager written in Rust, replacing multiple existing tools.
A comprehensive, modular JavaScript date utility library for manipulating dates in browsers and Node.js.
A JavaScript library for reading, writing, and processing spreadsheet data across Excel, CSV, and other formats.
A C++20 single-header, macro-free μ(micro)/unit testing framework focused on fast compilation and modern C++ features.
A cross-platform integrated development environment (IDE) for building applications with Qt across desktop, embedded, and mobile platforms.
A self-hosted network reconnaissance framework for building alternatives to Shodan, ZoomEye, Censys, and GreyNoise.
A Zsh configuration framework with a built-in plugin manager, modular extensions, and blazing-fast startup speed.
A Linux distribution for threat hunting, enterprise security monitoring, and log management.
A free, open-source web application security scanner for finding vulnerabilities during development and testing.
A privacy-focused web browser that blocks trackers and ads by default while rewarding users with Basic Attention Tokens.
A fast, cost-effective, and scalable open-source monitoring solution and time series database.
Kafka-style lightweight, fault-tolerant message streaming built on NATS with a single Go binary.
An open-source RSS reader and podcast app with a beautiful UI, personalized recommendations, and integrated search.
A modern, open-source JavaScript library for building customizable, interactive Gantt charts for the web.
ripgrep is a fast, line-oriented search tool that recursively searches directories for regex patterns while respecting gitignore rules.
A differentiable, hardware-accelerated molecular dynamics simulation framework built on JAX for computational physics and materials science.
A cross-platform desktop note-taking app built with React and Electron, offering real-time sync and a clean interface.
A composable, all-in-one mail server that implements SMTP, IMAP, DKIM, SPF, DMARC, and more in a single daemon.
A small, fast Canvas 2D-based charting library for time series, lines, areas, ohlc, and bars.
A free open-source collaborative system for document management, CRM, project management, and email aggregation.
A pure PHP library for reading and writing Word documents in OOXML, ODF, RTF, HTML, and PDF formats.