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Keyboard launcher written in C++/Qt.
Linux filesystem.
3D creation suite
Easily manage and run Windows apps on Linux.
E-books manager.
Online decompiler and compiler explorer.
BitTorrent client.
Wiki application.
Backup client.
Self-hosted VPN server using WireGuard.
Parametric 3D modeler made primarily to design real-life objects of any size.
Productivity app for Developers, Designers and other professionals.
Complete 3D engine.
Cross-platform 2D game engine.
Package manager for macOS.
macOS terminal replacement.
Software for bibliography management
Open Source application platform for creating Spring Boot + Angular/React/Vue projects in seconds.
Automatic normal/specular/occlussion/parallax map generator for 2D game sprites.
Knowledge management
Platform for flashcards
Music notation software.
Native mobile applications with NativeScript and Vue.
Vim-fork focused on extensibility and usability.
FLOSS video player on Android for services like YouTube, Soundcloud etc.
High quality video editing and compositing software.
Umbrella of multiple open source chemistry projects including Avogadro, cclib, DeepChem, MSDK, Open Babel, RDKit, and 3DMol.js.
Tools for building information modeling.
Real time strategy game engine.
Serverless platform.
Video editor.
Personal document manager.
Personal storage system.
PHP static analyzer.
PHPUnit and related projects.
A free & open-source 2D sprite editor, made with the Godot Engine.
UML diagram creation software.
Java editor plugin.
Remote desktop client.
Screen capture and screen sharing tool.
Code-based music creation and performance tool.
System V init implementation.
Android terminal emulator.
Ecommerce software.
BitTorrent client.
Statically typed compiled programming language similar to Go, influenced by Oberon, Rust, Swift.
Maker of the VLC video player.
Go plugin for VIM.
Localization tool with tight version control integration.
JavaScript module bundler.
Helping as many people as possible understand their networks as much as possible.
A highly automated and intuitive digital audio workstation.
3D kitbashing solution & CC0 model library.
Projects released with an open source license.
Ubuntu email client.
Forum platform.
A free, federated and social music server.
Modern web IRC client.
Federated microblogging platform.
Microblogging platform.
Reddit browser extension.
A distributed and secure peer-to-peer protocol and social network.
JavaScript charts library.
Loads 40+ 3D file formats into one unified and clean data structure for game-developers.
JavaScript compiler.
Immediate Mode Graphical User interface for C++.
Node.js framework.
User interface toolkit.
PHP framework.
Game development framework.
Progressive microservices framework for Node.js.
The Musl libc project.
Cross-platform application framework.
Web framework delivered as a C extension for PHP.
Standard library for JavaScript and Node.js with an emphasis on scientific computing.
JavaScript library for building interactive tables.
Vue.js.
PHP framework.
A server-less Python framework.
Libraries and frameworks.
Privacy-focused mobile OS.
Ubuntu variant.
MS-DOS compatible operating system.
Desktop-focused BSD OS.
A privacy and security focused mobile OS with Android app compatibility.
Linux distribution.
Debian for mobile.
Security-related Debian distribution.
A real Linux distribution for phones.
A reasonably secure operating system.
A free Windows-compatible Operating System
OS written in Rust.
Linux distribution.
Linux distibution.
Ubuntu variant.
Operating Systems and Linux distributions.
Turn-based strategy game.
Nintendo Wii U emulator.
Nintendo 3DS emulator.
City building game.
Xbox emulator for Windows.
TTRPG/Dungeons and Dragons Town and NPC Generator.
Free Heroes of Might and Magic II engine.
D&D tabletop role-playing game combat tracker.
Libretro, RetroArch and Lakka.
Nintendo DS emulator.
PS2 emulator.
PS3 emulator.
Nintendo Switch emulator.
Xbox emulator.
Xbox 360 emulator.
Nintendo Switch emulator.
Games and game-related projects.
Developer of PhotoFlow image editor, maintains various Appimage packages.
Tools for animations and motion pictures production.
GNU Image Manipulation Program.
Opensource editor and libraries for realtime 2D puppet animation and rendering, e.g. VTubers.
Inkscape contributor.
Various contributions to open source animation tools and animated shorts sources released under CC.
Painting and drawing program that works nicely with pressure-sensitive tablets, and its dynamic brush engine library.
Sculpting improvements for Blender.
Working on Inkscape vector graphics editor.
Developers creating art projects and contributing to art-related open source tools and libraries.
Electric vehicle projects.
Improving Linux support for (non-Wacom) graphics tablets.
JavaScript interpreter for microcontrollers.
FPGA and other hardware projects.
Improved Linux support for touchpads.
Linux Focusrite Scarlett software.
Software to develop printed circuit boards.
Reverse-engineering and writing Linux drivers for audio hardware on Apple Silicon Macs.
Windows drivers for the Sony DualShock controller and others.
Web interface for 3D printers.
RGB lighting control application.
Pinout diagrams for various microcontrollers.
Retro gaming.
Hardware-related projects and makers.
RLTrader, Tensortrade and other trading related projects.
LibreOffice developer.
LibreOffice designer.
Programming tutorials, games and mods.
KDE contributor, mainly KDE Partition Manager.
Shared Media Tagger, Open Translation Engine, and many more projects.
FOSS Nerd developing open source games in Godot and Rust
Conversations Jabber client.
Contributor to Flarum and other PHP projects.
Working on improving the Internet.
ElementaryOS contributor, Torrential, Clipped.
Various contributions to the PostgreSQL ecosystem (pgloader, pg_auto_failover), Emacs libraries (el-get), author.
Creator of Uncomplicate, a family of Clojure libraries for AI, ML, and GPU high performance computing.
Games, applications and articles.
Various JavaScript libraries and tools.
Moblin, iOS app for IRL streaming and many other libraries.
Nethack, GPSd, author of "The Cathedral and the Bazaar".
Contributions to FNA, SDL2 C# and other projects.
Working on PyDev and related projects.
Various projects and libraries like OkReplay, AirMapView, AsymmetricGridView, GifImageView, Wombat.
WebTorrent, StandardJS, and other JavaScript projects.
Creates Home Assistant add-ons and helps out on the main project.
Dhall language, Nix and Haskell educational projects and Haskell libraries and tool.
Raneto, Vue.js libraries and more.
Projects in the IndieWeb sphere, Koype and contributions to other open source projects.
mgmt config, articles and more.
Creates C++ libraries and standards proposals.
git-annex, keysafe, other Linux software.
Bootstrap JavaScript developer and various plugins and projects.
Hyperapp and many other JavaScript projects.
Various C++ libraries, tools, articles.
Contributor to projects such as GIMP, OpenSimulator, KiCad and TinyScheme.
API Platform, Vulcain, Mercure and Symfony contributions.
A multitude of libraries, applications and articles about iOS/Cocoa,
Syncthing-GTK and SC-Controller.
Various PHP libraries and OSS contributions.
Author of bfgminer and other substantial contributions to Bitcoin.
Angular-calendar and other angular components.
Bref, PHP-DI and other PHP libraries.
Various pentesting frameworks and tools.
Creator of Homebrew, maintainer of PromiseKit and a multitude of other project for Apple platforms.
Contributor to Weblate and phpMyAdmin.
KDE contributor.
ArchiveBox and OSS contributions but also articles and documentation.
Various Common Lisp libraries.
Download Them All! Firefox and Chrome extension.
GNU Emacs plugins, maintainer of Ivy/Swiper/Counsel, Hydra, Avy, Lispy, and more.
Debian packager.
Owner of Objective-See, various macOS security tools and articles.
Tuist and XcodeProj libraries, articles.
Various iOS libraries and projects.
X server, Buildbot CI, Barrier and many others.
druid and other Rust projects.
Maintaining and developing software such as cperl, parrot, a lot of perl5 modules, safeclib and libredwg.
T2 System Development Environment.
Open source tools and games.
Working on Toybox, mkroot and various other projects.
KDE contributor.
Contributor to Marlin Firmware for 3D printers.
Countless open source projects.
C++ libraries such as uvw and EnTT.
AudioKit contributor, Makeself and other libraries and projects.
MELPA lisp package archive and other software tooling.
Various iOS/macOS software.
Gaming related projects.
Multitude of iOS libraries and various contribution to the iOS ecosystem.
GCompris contributor.
Founder and maintainer of Webpack.
Developers contributing to multiple projects that ask to support their work.
Articles, videos, podcasts, etc…
Various programming tutorials.
Programming tutorials for kids.
Reviews and tutorials for Linux/BSD.
C++ articles.
articles and videos about Linux, Steam Deck, SteamOS gaming.
Author of the "You Don't Know JS" book series. Doing articles, podcasts and OSS contributions.
C++ articles.
C++ articles.
Python tutorials.
JavaScript and general programming videos.
IT security videos.
Programming tutorials.
Hak5 security show.
Linux discussion and news related podcast.
Linux and news.
Podcast for iOS developers.
Game development.
Linux News Podcast, 2-3 times more topics per episode than other podcasts.