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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 fast, safe, thread-friendly regular expression library with linear-time matching guarantees, designed for production use.
A functional, composable API for ActionScript 3 that simplifies working with both interactive (arrays) and reactive (events) data.
An open-source automated database platform for deploying and managing production-ready, highly available PostgreSQL clusters.
A Swift library for automating iTunes Connect and TestFlight tasks, inspired by Fastlane.
A free, privacy-respecting, self-hostable pictionary game with no ads or accounts required.
A .NET library for building Microsoft Office add-ins and automation code without version limitations.
A powerful double-entry accounting system accessed entirely from the UNIX command line, using plain text files for data storage.
Open-source GameStream client for embedded Linux systems like Raspberry Pi, enabling remote game streaming from PC.
A fast semantic search tool for C/C++ codebases that uses AST pattern matching to help security researchers find interesting functionality.
A versatile Rust tool for generating and mutating wordlists using patterns, web scraping, and password formats.
A free, open-source reference management tool to collect, organize, annotate, cite, and share research sources.
A high-performance routing engine written in C++ that provides route, trip, and navigation services using OpenStreetMap data.
A lightweight VPN built on IPFS and libp2p that creates direct encrypted tunnels between nodes, even behind NATs/firewalls.
A highly customizable, powerful and easy-to-use alerting library for Android, built with Kotlin.
A Swift-optimized animation library for gesture-driven interfaces, offering spring, curve, and decay animations with a protocol-oriented design.
An open-source music notation software for creating, editing, and printing sheet music with WYSIWYG design.
A Kakoune/Neovim-inspired modal text editor written in Rust, featuring multiple selections and built-in language server support.
A Common Lisp implementation of transactional Hewitt Actors for building highly concurrent, thread-agnostic, and secure distributed systems.
A fast and lightweight terminal user interface for subscribing to MQTT topics and publishing messages from the command line.
An open-source CLI scanner that finds AWS attack chains and provides copy-paste remediation with AWS CLI and Terraform.
An Elixir wrapper for generating PDFs from HTML using Puppeteer, offering improved rendering over wkhtmltopdf.
A high-performance, fully managed ADO.NET data provider for MySQL and MariaDB, compatible with modern .NET.
A smart model router for OpenClaw that cuts LLM costs up to 70% by routing requests to the cheapest capable model.
An open-source productivity launcher for quick application launching, web searches, file navigation, and calculations.
A high-performance C# ORM for SQL and NoSQL databases with built-in messaging, pub-sub, and client-server architecture.
A C++20 single-header, macro-free μ(micro)/unit testing framework focused on fast compilation and modern C++ features.
A self-contained, high-performance code coverage driver for PHP that's compatible with PHPUnit's CodeCoverage library.
A CLI task runner that uses a markdown file as both human-readable documentation and command definitions.
A libre file transfer client for macOS and Windows supporting FTP, SFTP, WebDAV, Amazon S3, Azure, OneDrive, and more.
Self-contained OCaml bindings to linenoise, providing easy high-level readline functionality without system dependencies.
A deterministic, skills-based browser agent that automates web interactions using predefined action recipes for popular sites.
A single-binary mock server supporting HTTP, WebSocket, gRPC, MQTT, SSE, GraphQL, and SOAP protocols.
A privacy-focused web browser that blocks trackers and ads by default while rewarding users with Basic Attention Tokens.
yt-dlp is a powerful command-line tool for downloading audio and video from thousands of websites.
An embeddable, collaborative text and code editor that syncs in real-time using Firebase.
A C# toolkit for code generation using plain C# templates, offering a modern alternative to T4 with hybrid programmatic and markup approaches.