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  • Loop is an open-source macOS app that simplifies window management.
  • PickCode is a code editor for K-12 students.
  • Fably is an open-source setup that tells bedtime stories to kids.
  • Perplexica is an AI-powered search engine. It is an Open source alternative to Perplexity AI.
  • Chess Dream is a neural network position generator.
  • The Most Talented Person In The World (archive) Jodie is a full time 3d-printing expert, grill master, expert guitarist, marketing wonder, brewqueen, personal trainer, avid camper, certified nutritionist, professional hiker, marathon runner, constant traveler, yard work enthusiast, mountain biker, rv driver, sportshoe expert, and mommy blogger too.
  • Heynote is an open-source dedicated scratchpad for developers.
  • OpenPanel is an open-source alternative to Mixpanel. The power of Mixpanel, the ease of Plausible and nothing from Google Analytics.
  • mactop is a terminal-based monitoring tool "top" designed to display real-time metrics for Apple Silicon chips.
  • KDE Connect enables communication between all your devices. Soduto is an open-source KDEConnect compatible client for macOS.
  • Espanso is an open-source cross-platform text expander.
  • DrawDB is an open-source, free, simple, and intuitive online database design tool and SQL generator.
  • MarkdownDown Convert any webpage to a clean markdown without images downloaded.
  • purl - Streamlining Text Processing
  • Stack the open-source user management service.
  • Scale of Universe is an interactive experience to inspire people to learn about the vast ranges of the visible and invisible world.
  • Anori is an open-source Chrome extension to create a new tab page that suits your style and needs.
  • Open Source tools to Record and Rewind everything on your computer — Mac / PC.
  • Dokploy is an Open Source Alternative to Vercel, Netlify and Heroku.
  • NewNode is an open-source messenger that keeps working during internet outages, natural disasters, and government blocks.
  • Text-to-Diagram is a Community list of comparisons between Text to Diagram tools
  • BlackHole is a modern macOS virtual audio loopback driver that allows applications to pass audio to other applications with zero additional latency.
  • OpenVoice: Versatile Instant Voice Cloning.
  • LOTR Project is site dedicated to JRR Tolkein’s works, depicting the genealogy of Middle-Earth.
  • Jampack is an open-source package that optimizes static websites for best user experience and best Core Web Vitals scores.
  • Real-time map of every Starlink satellite in orbit. As of 2024-Mar, there are 5,601 orbiting satellites.
  • Shot-Scraper is an open-source command-line utility for taking automated screenshots of websites.
  • OpenDevin is an open-source project aiming to replicate Devin, an autonomous AI software engineer who is capable of executing complex engineering tasks and collaborating actively with users on software development projects. The other alternative is — Devika aims to be a competitive open-source alternative to Devin by Cognition AI.
  • A graveyard for discontinued products from Apple, Google and Microsoft
  • A list of "crisis tools" recommended installing on Linux servers by default.
  • Lapdev is an Open source, self hosted dev environment. It uses Devcontainers spec and scales from a single machine to a global fleet of servers.
  • Soupault is an open-source static website generator/framework that works with HTML element trees and can automatically manipulate them. It can be described as a robotic webmaster that can edit HTML pages according to your rules, but doesn’t get tired of editing them.
  • OpenCat is an open source quadruped robot pet framework for developing Boston Dynamics-style four-legged robots that are perfect for STEM, coding & robotics education, IoT robotics applications, AI-enhanced robotics application services, research, and DIY robotics kit development.
  • Jan is an open source alternative to ChatGPT that runs 100% offline on your computer
  • HiddenVM is an open-source tool to use any desktop OS without leaving a trace.
  • Memories is an open-source Pictures management module that runs on top of NextCloud. (demo)
  • The Open Data Description Language (OpenDDL) is a general-purpose, human-readable, and strongly-typed data language for information exchange.
  • Shottr is a tiny and fast mac screenshot tool with annotations, scrolling screenshots and cloud upload capabilities.
  • TimeLapze is an open-source menu bar application for creating screen and camera timelapses without excessive file sizes.
  • Lightning CSS is an extremely fast CSS parser, transformer, bundler, and minifier.
  • YaCy is free software for your own search engine.
  • Newspapers is an online newspaper archive that goes all the way in the past.
  • Puter is an advanced open-source desktop environment in the browser, designed to be feature-rich, exceptionally fast, and highly extensible. It can be used to build remote desktop environments or serve as an interface for cloud storage services, remote servers, web hosting platforms, and more.
  • Natron is an Open Source Compositing Software For VFX and Motion Graphics.
  • Netboot - boot any operating system.
  • SuperTux is an open-source classic 2D jump'n run side-scroller game in a style similar to the original Super Mario games.
  • DAnswer is an open-source, AI-powered search engine across your company's docs, apps, and people.
  • Pages CMS is an open-source CMS running straight on top of GitHub.
  • Atuin is an open-source tool that sync, search and backup shell history.
  • Things Unexpectedly Named After People
  • Professional Programming - A collection of learning resources for curious software engineers.
  • CSS colors – All named CSS colors sorted by their lightness.
  • FontBase is the font manager of the new generation, built by designers, for designers.
  • ‘Not by AI’ is a badge for AI-free content – 100% human.
  • AI Avatars Development friendly, consistent, filterable, generated user avatar service.
  • Airmail is an open-source Lightweight GeoCoder in pure Rust. The author, Ellen, wrote an article on how to Host a planet-scale geocoder for $10/month.
  • Popular git config options
  • Observable released their open-source Observable Framework.
  • UTF-8 Everywhere - to promote usage and support of the UTF-8 encoding and to convince that it should be the default choice of encoding for storing text strings in memory or on disk, for communication and all other uses.
  • REOR is an open-source AI note-taking app that runs models locally.
  • CROSS MY HEART - Frogger remake in 256 Bytes.
  • Ｂｉｔｗｉｓｅ 📼 Ｌｉｍｉｎａｌ is a Short Film in 256 Bytes of Code.
  • Keyboard Connect is video conferencing for piano tutors. Step up your remote lessons by giving students a focused, engaging experience.
  • dax is a cross-platform shell tools for Node.js
  • ALL-about-RSS is a A list of RSS related stuff: tools, services, communities and tutorials, etc.
  • CoffeeStains provides an essential feature that LATEX has been missing for too long: It adds coffee stains to your documents. Here is an example PDF.
  • Obsidian has a well done documentation.
  • Asciinema is a free and open source solution for recording terminal sessions and sharing them on the web.
  • VHS is an open-source CLI home video recorder.
  • Highlight is an open source, full-stack Monitoring Platform.
  • Wikipedia Signpost/2024-01-31/Disinformation report
  • White Phoenix is an open-source free ransomware recovery tool.
  • Web3 is Going Just Great is a project by Molly White, to track some examples of how things in the blockchains/crypto/web3 technology space aren't actually going as well as its proponents might like you to believe. The timeline tracks events in cryptocurrency and blockchain-based technologies, dating back to the beginning of 2021.
  • How to deal with receiving a cease-and-desist letter from Big Tech (archive)
  • FileBrowser provides a file managing interface within a specified directory and it can be used to upload, delete, preview, rename and edit your files. source
  • A tribute to Nokia 3310.
  • ViroReact is a library for developers to rapidly build augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) experiences.
  • Realtime Global Threat assessment driven by AI.
  • Zed is an open source high-performance, multiplayer code editor.
  • Teach Yourself Math is a list of Math Problems.
  • Kener is a Open-Source Status Page System.
  • The Founder is a a dystopian business simulator game.
  • Amazon Disk Prices
  • Spotube is an open-source fast, modern, lightweight & efficient Spotify Music Client for every platform.
  • FreeRDP is an open source and free implementation of the Remote Desktop Protocol.
  • Copy-n-Paste TextArt.
  • Voxos is an open-source desktop voice assistant that aims to put Clippy to shame while supporting new desktop workflows powered by LLMs.
  • Nikita Lapkov wrote a nice hack-scene story of a touchscreen (archive) in his new Apartment in London.
  • FreeCarrierLookup will return the carrier name and whether the number is wireless or landline.
  • Technitium DNS Server is an open source authoritative as well as recursive DNS server that can be used for self hosting a DNS server for privacy & security.
  • Paged.js is a free and open source JavaScript library that paginates content in the browser to create PDF output from any HTML content.
  • HTMLDocs is an online editor for building next-generation documents in HTML/CSS.
  • OutRun is an open-source, privacy oriented, outdoor fitness tracker.
  • ADDR.tools - possibly useful tools for the Internet.
  • Data Brokers Watch tracks and maps the data broker ecosystem. They curate the largest publicly available database of data brokers and make it available to the wider research community.
  • EXT is a platform that allows third party developers to install, load, run, publish and monetize JavaScript-based extensions and native modules, while giving end-users complete control over each extension’s permissions. EXT also includes a store where end-users can find and purchase approved extensions (though the platform also allows side-loading private extensions and modules).
  • Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope.
  • Pairdrop is an open-source Local file sharing in your browser.
  • DevDocs combines multiple API documentations in a fast, organized, and searchable interface.
  • Tree.fm - listen to a forest somewhere in the world.
  • Window Swap - Open a new Window somewhere in the world.
  • Shoelace - A forward-thinking library of web components.
  • Helio is an attempt to rethink a music sequencer to create a tool that feels right. It provides a lightweight UI to help you get into the zone and focus on your ideas.
  • The Scientific Place an interactive math crossword puzzle with infinite levels.
  • LinguaCafe - Self-hosted software for language learners to read foreign languages.
  • GreenTunnel is an anti-censorship utility designed to bypass the DPI system that is put in place by various ISPs to block access to certain websites.
  • Gmailify is a complete email system bringing custom domains to Gmail accounts. Without hacks.
  • PocketBase is an open-source backend in 1 file.
  • dns.toys is an open-source DNS server that takes creative liberties with the DNS protocol to offer handy utilities and services that are easily accessible via the command line.
  • AI Employee (source) automates email-to-CRM/ERP data transfers, tasks requiring human-like intelligence: understanding emails, receipts, invoices, etc.
  • Kicks Pro ($49.99) is a clutter-free, powerful Mac-native sample manager.
  • Nestflix is a platform for your favorite nested films and shows. Fictional movies within movies, fake shows within shows - over 700 stories within stories.
  • The 44 Best Pens for 2024 - it’s almost impossible to pick a single best pen for everyone, because not everyone wants the same thing from their pens. Plus, different types of pens use different inks, so you can’t exactly compare a gel pen to a highlighter.
  • Ghostarchive is a free-to-use archiving website.
  • Whistleblower Aid is a non-profit dedicated to supporting and protecting whistleblowers— in the interest of the public, and in the pursuit of a robust, resilient and thriving democracy.
  • Software Technical Writing: A Guidebook (pdf) covers the essential and practical knowledge that you can use to produce technical content.
  • Ambiphone is a free, white noise app, easy-to-use, without logins or ads or in-app purchases etc.
  • Paged Out is a free experimental technical magazine about programming, hacking, security hacking, retro computers, modern computers, electronics, demoscene, and other similar topics.
  • SearXNG is a free internet metasearch engine which aggregates results from more than 70 search services. Users are neither tracked nor profiled.
  • OpenVoice is a voice cloning tool from MyShell.
  • NERV Disaster Prevention has the most appropriate information at the fastest level in Japan.
  • uBlacklist blocks specific sites from appearing in Google (and other Search Engines) search results. Awesome-uBlacklistmaintains a list of subscriptions to block search results.
  • Someone found the oldest version of 86-DOS surviving in the wild - Download the Disk Image. (archive) I’ve kept a copy for my playground and hoping to play with it one day.
  • Bazzite is an open-source OCI image that serves as an alternative operating system for the Steam Deck, and a ready-to-game SteamOS-like for desktop computers, living room home theater PCs, and numerous other handheld PCs.
  • AzuraCast is a free and open-source, self-hosted web radio station in a box.
  • awesome-web-desktops - Websites, web apps, portfolios which look like desktop operating systems.
  • Meshtastic is an open source, off-grid, decentralized, mesh network built to run on affordable, low-power devices.
  • WikEM, The Global Emergency Medicine Wiki, is the world's largest and most popular emergency medicine open-access reference resource.
  • Durdraw is an ASCII, Unicode and ANSI art editor for UNIX-like systems (Linux, macOS, etc). (source)
  • 2024 Habit Calendar is printable habit recorder.