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An open-source API development ecosystem for testing HTTP, WebSocket, GraphQL, and other APIs with real-time collaboration.
An open-source, fullstack Next.js framework that provides a TypeScript backend and admin panel, usable as a headless CMS or for building applications.
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.
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A flexible library for creating test data and associations in Elixir applications, with seamless Ecto integration.
A low-overhead Java memory allocation profiler that instruments bytecode to track object creation.
A .NET library for automated UI testing of Windows applications using Microsoft's UI Automation framework.
A cross-platform open-source library for rendering Milkdrop-compatible music visualizations from audio input.
A production-quality forward-chaining expert system shell implementing the Rete algorithm in modern Common Lisp.
A JavaScript library for managing tournament brackets (round-robin, single/double elimination) with full logic and storage abstraction.
An extremely fast Python linter and code formatter written in Rust, offering drop-in replacements for tools like Flake8 and Black.
A language-natural persistence layer for Java that treats the database as a sorted key/value store and implements everything else in Java.
A machine learning algorithm for accurate, energy-efficient outdoor positioning using 5G mmWave beamformed fingerprints.
Lightweight DataFrame validation decorators for pandas, Polars, Modin, and PyArrow with no custom types required.
A JAX library implementing Lie groups for rigid body transformations in computer vision and robotics.
A lightweight Go library for scanning SQL rows directly into structs, slices, and primitive types.
An open-source tool for merging multiple .NET assemblies into a single assembly, serving as a modern replacement for ILMerge.
A fast, local-first web scraper and content extractor optimized for AI agents, with CLI, REST API, and MCP server.
A tiny (394B) utility that converts route patterns like '/users/:id' into regular expressions.
A Python library for logging ML metrics, parameters, and models in simple file formats, compatible with DVC and Git.
A lightweight and extensible infrastructure for building high-quality web applications based on ASP.NET Core.
An Arduino/Raspberry Pi tool to scan for JTAG pins and enumerate undocumented instructions on embedded devices.
A low-code admin panel and business intelligence Rails engine configurable entirely from the UI, no DSL required.
A Ruby process monitoring tool inspired by Bluepill and God, built for production stability with advanced features like chained restarts and health checks.
A grep-based source code auditing tool that finds potential security flaws using signature databases for multiple programming languages.
A Nix-based tool for managing PureScript projects with a custom package set and CLI.
A high-performance, extensible Minecraft reverse proxy and library written in Go, designed as a scalable alternative to Velocity/BungeeCord.
A free marketplace for CC0-licensed 3D assets, models, textures, and HDRI files ready for use in Three.js and React Three Fiber projects.
Docker images providing the latest Nginx with LuaJIT and additional Lua modules, built for multiple Linux distributions.
A cross-platform, terminal-based Spotify client written in Rust, offering a lightweight and keyboard-driven music experience.
A database migration tool for sidegrading from Adobe Commerce (Enterprise) to Magento Open Source (Community) by removing EE-specific schema.
A native Mac app wrapper for Facebook Messenger that provides a desktop experience.
A Go package for detecting MIME types and file extensions based on magic numbers, prioritizing common formats and supporting extension.
A free, open-source, cross-platform archive manager and file utility supporting 200+ archive formats.
A full-featured PDF viewer component for Angular applications, based on Mozilla's pdf.js.
An open-source archive manager for macOS that lets you preview nested archives and extract single files without full extraction.
A clean, simple, and powerful web application for managing, importing, and organizing family recipes.
An open source, self-hosted live video streaming and chat server for complete ownership of your live streams.
A Dart framework for describing and verifying hardware, enabling modern software practices in hardware development.
Enterprise-grade open-source PostgreSQL distribution with HA, monitoring, 460+ extensions, and Infrastructure as Code for self-hosting.