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A drop-in image optimization service for the modern web.
PicPerf is a drop-in service for making your website's images light, modern, and fast. Just prefix your image URLs or use an official integration (WordPress, Statamic, & more) to start reaping the benefits.
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Menu Bar Manager.
Ice is a powerful menu bar management tool. While its primary function is hiding and showing menu bar items, it aims to cover a wide variety of additional features to make it one of the most versatile menu bar tools available.
Dynamic show preview of the selected image before upload it, by jQuery.
Syncany is an open-source cloud storage and filesharing application. It allows users to backup and share certain folders of their workstations using any kind of storage, e.g. FTP, Amazon S3 or Google Storage.
Cross Site "Scripter" is an automatic -framework- to detect, exploit and report XSS vulnerabilities in web-based applications.
A tool to generate Kubernetes manifests from templates.
A powerful tool for generating ArgoCD Applications and their rendered Kubernetes resources from Helm, Kustomize, and Jinja2 — across multiple environments, at scale.
Free website malware and security checker
Enter a URL like example.com and the Sucuri SiteCheck scanner will check the website for known malware, viruses, blacklisting status, website errors, out-of-date software, and malicious code.
The Package Analysis project analyses the capabilities of packages available on open source repositories. The project looks for behaviors that indicate malicious software:
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What files do they access?
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What addresses do they connect to?
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What commands do they run?
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Daux.io is a documentation generator that uses a simple folder structure and Markdown files to create custom documentation on the fly. It helps you create great looking documentation in a developer friendly way.
Large Scale Automated Refactoring.
OpenRewrite is an open-source automated refactoring ecosystem for source code, enabling developers to effectively eliminate technical debt within their repositories.
It consists of an auto-refactoring engine that runs prepackaged, open-source refactoring recipes for common framework migrations, security fixes, and stylistic consistency tasks – reducing your coding effort from hours or days to minutes. Build tool plugins like the OpenRewrite Gradle plugin and the OpenRewrite Maven plugin help you run these recipes on one repository at a time.
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Checks for signature requirements over LDAP. The script will establish a connection to the target host(s) and request authentication without signature capability. If this is accepted, it means that the target hosts allows unsigned LDAP sessions and NTLM relay attacks are possible to this LDAP service (whenever signing is not requested by the client).
wallabag is a self hostable application for saving web pages: Save and classify articles. Read them later. Freely.
It's a self-hosted open source alternative to pocket.
Tools for MySQL to PostgreSQL migration.
mysql_migrator is a plugin for db_migrator that uses mysql_fdw to migrate an MySQL or MariaDB database to PostgreSQL.
Fast and local neural text-to-speech engine.
A fast and local neural text-to-speech engine that embeds espeak-ng for phonemization.
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An extremely fast Python package installer and resolver, written in Rust.
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Fly through your Windows 11 setup 🐝
Originally, Flyby11 was a simple patcher to remove the restrictions stopping you from installing Windows 11 (24H2) on unsupported hardware. Old PC? No TPM, no Secure Boot, unsupported CPU? Flyby11 let you install Windows 11 anyway.
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Neon Core extends Mycroft core with more modular code, extended multi-user support, and more.
Neon AI is an open source voice assistant.
A free and open source tunneling tool.
Tunnelmole is a simple tool to give your locally running HTTP(s) servers a public URL.
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Browser automation for everyone.
Doppelganger is a self-hosted, free browser automation and scraping platform built on Playwright, designed to handle everything from simple scraping to complex, human-like browser interactions. It provides a visual task editor, a structured JSON task format, and advanced execution modes that go far beyond traditional scrapers.
webpack/Parcel/Snowpack boilerplate generator.
Frontend build config generator.
Cartes et informations sur les pays. Toutes les cartes et informations sur les pays sont sur Atlas Monde
La géographie est une discipline ancienne dont le terme d’origine a pour signification « description de la Terre ». Elle met en avant les relations entre les sociétés et leur environnement sur l’ensemble de la planète.
Atlas Monde a pour ambition d’accompagner à la découverte du Monde à travers de nombreuses ressources à télécharger librement sur toutes les zones et tous les pays du globe. Pour chacun des continents et pays nous essayons de vous proposer des données sur la situation géographique, les populations, l’économie, la géopolitique, le relief, le climat, la linguistique ou encore l’histoire.
Write React components using CSS only. A new, better and faster way to write visual components. CSS-in-JS? Nope! JS-from-CSS.
Supports Next.js, Remix and TailwindCSS.
🐀 A link aggregator and forum for the fediverse.
Lemmy is similar to sites like Reddit, Lobste.rs, or Hacker News: you subscribe to forums you're interested in, post links and discussions, then vote, and comment on them.
Free Royalty Free Music. Free Music for Your Videos
Much, much more picky than other marketplaces. Much, much cheaper than Hans Zimmer. In fact, it’s free for a link.
Teams-first Multi-agent orchestration for Claude Code. A weapon, not a tool.
Multi-AI orchestration plugin for Claude Code. Coordinate Claude, Gemini, and Codex with 19 specialized agents, 28 skills, and MCP-powered tools.
The Web Without JavaScript. A programming language that compiles to WebAssembly, built for the next era of web development.
Nectar compiles to WebAssembly. One language, one binary, zero dependencies. Your entire app — logic, state, rendering — runs in WASM. JavaScript is reduced to a 10 KB syscall layer.
Discover everything that is happening on your computer. Expose every connection your applications make and detect evil ones. Finally get the power to act accordingly.
Your Zotero library. Your server.
Self-hosted sync server for Zotero — keep libraries, groups, notes and attachments on your own infrastructure using the unmodified desktop client.
altero is a self-hosted synchronization server for Zotero. Point an unmodified Zotero desktop application at it and keep your libraries, groups, notes, annotations, attachments and full text on infrastructure you control.
It speaks the same Zotero Web API that the desktop client uses and deliberately reproduces upstream behavior where compatibility matters.
A lightweight security threat scanner intended to make malware detection more accessible and efficient.
Lenspect is a lightweight security threat scanner powered by VirusTotal.
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The Evolution of Spreadsheets. A modern, open source spreadsheet that goes beyond the grid.
Grist is a modern relational spreadsheet. It combines the flexibility of a spreadsheet with the robustness of a database. Grist is a hybrid database/spreadsheet.
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A coding agent for any model
Works with frontier models, but also strives to be as reliable as possible with smaller models, including local ones. Designed for tight context windows and limited resources. Free, open-source, and easy to set up.
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Carbon is the next-generation cross-platform game engine framework from Fenris Creations Open-source technology for persistent sandbox worlds - Powering EVE Online & EVE Frontier.
Carbon is the next-generation cross-platform game engine framework from Fenris Creations, used to build entire universes where tens of millions of players have experienced emotion invoking journeys through the vastness of space. Every line of code, every pixel, every beat shaped by Carbon pushes the boundaries of virtual worlds.
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increase performance and reliability over stock Android for your device. After-market highly customized Android platform for select devices.
Efficient and lightweight cross-platform 3D/2D graphics engine. Open-source, efficient, and high-performance engine for cross-platform 3D real-time content creation
Cocos simplifies game creation and distribution with Cocos Creator, a free, open-source, cross-platform game engine. Empowering millions of developers to create high-performance, engaging 2D/3D games and instant web entertainment.
A source-control branching model, where developers collaborate on code in a single branch called ‘trunk’ *, resist any pressure to create other long-lived development branches by employing documented techniques. They therefore avoid merge hell, do not break the build, and live happily ever after.
A unified TypeScript SDK for building chat bots across Slack, Microsoft Teams, Google Chat, Discord, Telegram, GitHub, Linear, and WhatsApp. Write your bot logic once, deploy everywhere.
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PHP Static Analysis Tool - discover bugs in your code without running it!
SOPlanning est un outil en ligne open source, conçu pour planifier efficacement des projets / tâches depuis n'importe quel navigateur.
Community-Powered Animation Magic. Get your animations easily done with only Tailwind CSS classes.
least.js is a Random and Responsive jQuery, HTML 5 & CSS3 Gallery with LazyLoad
Start building your movie and TV show library with truly unlimited storage size.
Control HermesFrom your iPhone
A native iPhone client for your self-hosted Hermes agent. Open sessions, stream responses, steer model / profile / reasoning, attach files, and browse your workspace — all from your phone. The agent runs on your server, not your iPhone.
Firezone Inspired Wireguard VPN Server and nftables Firewall. A self-hosted WireGuard VPN management platform built with Python, NiceGUI, and PostgreSQL.
WireGUI gives you a clean web interface for managing WireGuard peers, firewall rules, and user authentication -- without depending on any third-party cloud service. It's designed for teams and individuals who want full control over their VPN infrastructure.
ARK extends Kubernetes with custom resources that make agents, teams, MCP tools, and workflows first-class citizens in your cluster.
Provider-agnostic operations for agentic resources. ARK codifies patterns and practices developed across dozens of agentic application projects.
Select context for coding agents directly from your website.
How? Point at any element and press ⌘C (Mac) or Ctrl+C (Windows/Linux) to copy the file name, React component, and HTML source code.
It makes tools like Cursor, Claude Code, Copilot run up to 3× faster and more accurate.
The turn-based strategy game of Conquer (v4), by Adam Bryant and Ed Barlow.
Conquer is the classic multi-player strategy game originally created by Edward M. Barlow and Adam Bryant in the late 1980s. This repository preserves both the historical distribution and provides a modern GPL-licensed version for continued development.
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Heimdall Application Dashboard is a dashboard for all your web applications. It doesn't need to be limited to applications though, you can add links to anything you like.
Heimdall is an elegant solution to organise all your web applications. It’s dedicated to this purpose so you won’t lose your links in a sea of bookmarks.
trurl is a tool in a similar spirit of tr but for URLs. Here, 'tr' stands for translate or transpose.
trurl is a command line tool that parses and manipulates URLs, designed to help shell script authors everywhere.
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Zero-bloat Postgres queue. One SQL file to install, pg_cron to tick.
For teams who want a durable event stream inside Postgres. The model is closer to Kafka (log) than to ActiveMQ or RabbitMQ (task message queue). Shared event log, independent per-consumer cursors, zero bloat under sustained load. Pure SQL and PL/pgSQL, any Postgres 14+ — managed or self-hosted, no sidecar daemon. The rest of this README walks the history, comparison, and install paths that back up the claim.
Snowflake is a cloud-based data warehousing platform designed to provide a flexible, scalable, and high-performance solution for storing, processing, and analyzing large volumes of data. It leverages a unique architecture that separates storage and compute resources, allowing users to scale each independently.
Simple and flexible tool for managing secrets.
SOPS is an editor of encrypted files that supports YAML, JSON, ENV, INI and BINARY formats and encrypts with AWS KMS, GCP KMS, Azure Key Vault, age, and PGP.
Open Source multi-arch NAS Built on OpenSUSE.
Rockstor as a Cloud and Storage platform enables hackers, makers/re-distributors, and DIYers to build completely custom solutions. Storage is an essential part of most software and hardware projects – be it an embedded project or a web application, but options for a robust storage layer with complete control are limited.
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Phylum is a self-hosted file storage platform with offline-first web and native clients, meant as a replacement for Google Drive, Dropbox, etc. It is licensed under GNU Affero GPL 3.0, and is intended to be forever free and non-commercial.
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Brotli is a generic-purpose lossless compression algorithm that compresses data using a combination of a modern variant of the LZ77 algorithm, Huffman coding and 2nd order context modeling, with a compression ratio comparable to the best currently available general-purpose compression methods. It is similar in speed with deflate but offers more dense compression.
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