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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 vector graphics scripting framework for HTML5 Canvas and Node.js, offering a comprehensive API for creating and manipulating vector graphics.
A stripped-down, bare-bones authentication library for Ruby on Rails applications.
A cross-platform UI toolkit written in V for building native and custom widget applications on Windows, macOS, Linux, and Android.
A pure Rust library for demuxing media formats, reading metadata tags, and decoding audio codecs.
A Java library for easy, reliable background job processing with persistent storage, using Java 8 lambdas.
A portable mixed-precision math library with 2,000+ SIMD kernels for 15+ numeric types across x86, Arm, RISC-V, and WebAssembly.
An open-source framework for financial large language models, enabling cost-effective fine-tuning for tasks like sentiment analysis and forecasting.
A fast, secure image processing server and Go library using libvips, offering a high-performance drop-in replacement for thumbor.
An open-source IaC orchestration tool that runs Terraform/OpenTofu directly in your existing CI pipeline.
A professional animated sprite editor and pixel art tool for game developers and digital artists.
A pure Go library for accessing Raspberry Pi GPIO pins without external C dependencies.
A free open-source collaborative system for document management, CRM, project management, and email aggregation.
A composable, all-in-one mail server that implements SMTP, IMAP, DKIM, SPF, DMARC, and more in a single daemon.
A terminal tool to run and manage multiple commands in parallel with separate output panes and interactive controls.
A JavaScript parser generator with a Bison-compatible API for creating bottom-up parsers from JSON or Bison-style grammars.
A library for iOS developers to adjust app constants like colors, animations, and layouts in real-time without recompiling.
yt-dlp is a powerful command-line tool for downloading audio and video from thousands of websites.
An open-source zero-trust networking platform that makes network services invisible to unauthorized users with cryptographic identity and end-to-end encryption.
An extremely fast Python linter and code formatter written in Rust, offering drop-in replacements for tools like Flake8 and Black.
A fast, extensible CommonMark/Markdown parser for Java with source-level AST and emulation of other markdown processors.
A friendly .NET mocking library with a succinct syntax that keeps tests focused on intention rather than configuration.
A free, cross-platform C library for generating PDF files with support for text, images, fonts, encryption, and CJK encoding.
An open-source library for cross-platform creative development, inspired by Flash and AIR APIs.
A command-line tool that automates testing in multiple Python environments using standard Python configuration files.
A lightweight, fast, full-text search engine for static websites, written in Rust and compiled to WebAssembly.
A minimal, human-readable configuration file format that maps unambiguously to a hash table.
Create PDF documents interactively using HTML, Pug, and web technologies like CSS and JavaScript.
A font family that replaces text with solid blocks to keep wireframes free of distracting placeholder content.
A menu bar utility for macOS that prevents your computer from sleeping using Apple's caffeinate tool.
A lightweight, fast MJPEG-HTTP video streamer for V4L2 devices, optimized for high-resolution, high-FPS streaming.
A lightweight JavaScript/TypeScript library for parsing, formatting, manipulating, and internationalizing dates using native Date objects.
An auto-generated, fully type-safe database client for Go that reduces boilerplate.
A distributed storage system for object storage (S3), file systems, and Iceberg tables, optimized for billions of files with O(1) disk access.
A free, open-source reference management tool to collect, organize, annotate, cite, and share research sources.
An open-source, real-time infrastructure monitoring platform with per-second metrics, ML-powered anomaly detection, and zero-configuration deployment.
An open-source learning management system (LMS) developed by Instructure for educational institutions and organizations.