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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.
A standard library for JavaScript and TypeScript with an emphasis on numerical and scientific computation.
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A standalone tool for viewing massive point clouds (billions of points) in your browser or via a native SDL client.
A TypeScript library that bridges Esri ArcGIS REST services with MapLibre GL JS and Mapbox GL JS.
Automatic documentation generator for modern Fortran programs, extracting information from source code comments.
A static code analyzer that detects security vulnerabilities in C# and VB.NET applications.
A self-hosted, private cloud server for storing and searching shell command history, compatible with bashhub-client.
A Common Lisp implementation of transactional Hewitt Actors for building highly concurrent, thread-agnostic, and secure distributed systems.
An open-source PDF platform for editing, converting, signing, and automating PDFs with a self-hostable API and desktop app.
A database migration tool for sidegrading from Adobe Commerce (Enterprise) to Magento Open Source (Community) by removing EE-specific schema.
A GPU-accelerated image and video processing framework for Apple platforms built on Metal.
A sampling JVM profiler that avoids safepoint bias for accurate performance analysis.
A hyperparameter-free gradient boosting machine with a simple budget parameter, built for high performance with Rust and bindings for Python and R.
A fast, easy, and feature-rich JSON serializer for Ruby, JRuby, and TruffleRuby with no runtime dependencies.
A modular Ruby toolkit for handling file uploads, processing, and storage with support for cloud services and multiple ORMs.
A fast, extensible CommonMark/Markdown parser for Java with source-level AST and emulation of other markdown processors.
A composable, all-in-one mail server that implements SMTP, IMAP, DKIM, SPF, DMARC, and more in a single daemon.
Python bindings for the Mapnik C++ library, enabling programmatic map rendering and geospatial visualization.
A simple, open-source lossless audio codec with good compression ratios, written in C++.
A Delphi VCL control for embedding and manipulating PDF documents using the PDFium library.
A ROS-based 2D SLAM library for lifelong mapping, localization, and multi-robot SLAM with pose-graph optimization.
A Java serialization library that converts objects to/from JSON, JSON5, and TOON formats, handling complex graphs and reducing LLM token usage by 40-50%.
A Swift library implementing 2D/3D vector and matrix functions for games and graphics, with a Swift-native API.
A JAX-based research framework for differentiable and parallelizable acoustic simulations, running on CPU, GPU, and TPU.
A lightweight Go library for network I/O event notification using epoll/kqueue, designed for building high-performance network applications.
A Godot Engine plugin for generating 3D trees with SpeedTree-like procedural generation capabilities.
A native macOS Kafka monitoring client designed to be lightweight, safe, and read-only for production environments.
A package manager that installs prebuilt Swift command line tool packages, like Homebrew for Swift.
A modular Ruby toolkit for handling file uploads, processing, and storage with support for cloud services and multiple ORMs.
A Rust tool to verify email address deliverability without sending emails, with CLI, HTTP backend, and library options.
A lightweight, web-based raw text annotation tool for collaborative annotation projects with support for complex schemas.
A priority task queue implementation using Vert.x and Redis, inspired by Automattic/kue.
Python library for multilinear algebra operations and tensor factorizations with support for dense and sparse tensors.
A modern SQL-based object mapping and query library for Java, Kotlin, and Android with RxJava and Java 8 support.
A fast, lightweight Dockerfile linter written in Go that detects issues, enforces best practices, and provides quality scores.
A lightweight, high-performance reverse proxy and container orchestrator with a WebUI for self-hosted applications.
A buffer-centric TUI text editor written entirely in Vlang, combining ideas from Neovim, Helix, and Emacs in a tiny standalone binary.
Automatically build and rebuild Xcode image catalogs for iOS/macOS app icons and universal images from source assets.