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May 12, 2024
Open Source Projects
- Freeter - Productivity app for Developers, Designers and other professionals.
Feb 12, 2024
Open Source Projects
- Neovim - Vim-fork focused on extensibility and usability.
- PHPStan - PHP static analyzer.
- Termux - Android terminal emulator.
- Kitbashery - 3D kitbashing solution & CC0 model library.
Open Source Projects / Libraries
- ApexCharts - JavaScript charts library.
Jan 27, 2024
Open Source Projects
- Bottles - Easily manage and run Windows apps on Linux.
- Sonic Pi - Code-based music creation and performance tool.
Open Source Projects / Operating Systems
- PostmarketOS - A real Linux distribution for phones.
Jun 16, 2023
Open Source Projects
- NewPipe - FLOSS video player on Android for services like YouTube, Soundcloud etc.
Open Source Projects / Messaging and social media
Open Source Projects / Libraries
Open Source Projects / Hardware related
- Martin Povišer - Reverse-engineering and writing Linux drivers for audio hardware on Apple Silicon Macs.
Other kinds of content / Articles and Tutorials
- Boiling Steam, #2 - Linux gaming news, reviews, guides.
- GamingOnLinux - articles and videos about Linux, Steam Deck, SteamOS gaming.
Dec 23, 2022
Open Source Projects / Games
- Fheroes2 - Free Heroes of Might and Magic II engine.
- Heroic Games Launcher, #2, #3 - Open source GOG and Epic Games launcher.
- MelonDS - Nintendo DS emulator.
Dec 13, 2022
Open Source Projects / Messaging and social media
- Retrospring, #2, #3 - A social network following the Q/A (question and answer) principle.
Jul 22, 2022
Open Source Projects
- Firezone - Self-hosted VPN server using WireGuard.
Jun 01, 2022
Open Source Projects
Open Source Projects / Games
- Cemu - Nintendo Wii U emulator.
- Xemu - Xbox emulator.
Open Source Projects / Hardware related
- Geoffrey D. Bennett - Linux Focusrite Scarlett software.
People Doing Open Source Work / Hardware related
- Povilas Kanapickas - X server, Buildbot CI, Barrier and many others.
May 17, 2022
Open Source Projects / Open Source Art
- Alexandre Prokoudine, #2 - GIMP contributor, editor of Libre Graphics World online magazine.
- Andrea Ferrero - Developer of PhotoFlow image editor, maintains various Appimage packages.
- Duduf - Tools for animations and motion pictures production.
- Inochi2D - Opensource editor and libraries for realtime 2D puppet animation and rendering, e.g. VTubers.
- Marc Jeanmougin - Inkscape contributor.
- Morevna Project - Various contributions to open source animation tools and animated shorts sources released under CC.
- Øyvind Kolås, #2 - Lead developer of babl & GEGL libraries used in the graphics editor GIMP.
- Pablo Dobarro - Sculpting improvements for Blender.
- Tavmjong Bah - Working on Inkscape vector graphics editor.
- ZeMarmot, #2, #3 - 2D animation film project to be released under CC. GIMP contributions from Jehan Pagès, art and direction by Aryeom Han.
Open Source Projects / Hardware related
- Damien Maguire - Electric vehicle projects.
- Espruino - JavaScript interpreter for microcontrollers.
- Frank Buss - FPGA and other hardware projects.
- GitClear - Improved Linux support for touchpads.
- Hector Martin "marcan", #2 - Asahi, Linux support for Apple Silicon Macs.
- Nefarius Software Solutions - Windows drivers for the Sony DualShock controller and others.
- Pinout.xyz - Pinout diagrams for various microcontrollers.
- Professor Abrasive - Retro gaming.
People Doing Open Source Work / Hardware related
- Luke Dashjr - Author of bfgminer and other substantial contributions to Bitcoin.
May 15, 2022
Open Source Projects
- LogSeq - Knowledge management
- Memcode - Platform for flashcards
Oct 29, 2021
Open Source Projects
- Weblate - Localization tool with tight version control integration.
Open Source Projects / Operating Systems
- Solus - Linux distibution.
Open Source Projects / Games
- Citra - Nintendo 3DS emulator.
- Ryujinx - Nintendo Switch emulator.
Oct 18, 2021
Open Source Projects
- Open Chemistry - Umbrella of multiple open source chemistry projects including Avogadro, cclib, DeepChem, MSDK, Open Babel, RDKit, and 3DMol.js.
Jul 02, 2021
Open Source Projects / Games
- Eigengrau's Generator - TTRPG/Dungeons and Dragons Town and NPC Generator.
Jun 04, 2021
Open Source Projects
- JabRef - Software for bibliography management
Open Source Projects / Operating Systems
- /e/ - Privacy-focused mobile OS.
- GrapheneOS - A privacy and security focused mobile OS with Android app compatibility.
- Mobian - Debian for mobile.
Open Source Projects / Open Source Art
- GIMP - GNU Image Manipulation Program.
Open Source Projects / Hardware related
- OpenRGB - RGB lighting control application.
May 01, 2021
Open Source Projects
- Zrythm - A highly automated and intuitive digital audio workstation.
Open Source Projects / Messaging and social media
People Doing Open Source Work / Hardware related
- Andreas Heinisch - LibreOffice developer.
- René Rebe - T2 System Development Environment.
Feb 25, 2021
Open Source Projects
- Open Source BIM Collective - Tools for building information modeling.
- PHPUnit - PHPUnit and related projects.
- Thirty Bees - Ecommerce software.
- Vim-Go - Go plugin for VIM.
Open Source Projects / Libraries
- Dear ImGui (⭐56k) - Immediate Mode Graphical User interface for C++.
- Hapi.js - Node.js framework.
People Doing Open Source Work / Hardware related
- Attogram Project - Shared Media Tagger, Open Translation Engine, and many more projects.
- Johann-S - Bootstrap JavaScript developer and various plugins and projects.
- Raph Levien - druid and other Rust projects.
- Scarlett Moore - KDE contributor.
- skypjack - C++ libraries such as uvw and EnTT.
Feb 11, 2021
People Doing Open Source Work / Hardware related
- Bailey Burnsed - FOSS Nerd developing open source games in Godot and Rust
Nov 30, 2020
Open Source Projects
Open Source Projects / Libraries
- Asset-Importer-Lib - Loads 40+ 3D file formats into one unified and clean data structure for game-developers.
- HaxeUI - User interface toolkit.
- MicroG, #2 - A free-as-in-freedom re-implementation of Google's proprietary Android user space apps and libraries.
- OpenFL - Cross-platform application framework.
- Tabulator - JavaScript library for building interactive tables.
Open Source Projects / Operating Systems
- Ubuntu Studio, #2 - Ubuntu variant for creating audio, video, graphics etc.
Open Source Projects / Games
- yuzu - Nintendo Switch emulator.
Nov 28, 2020
People Doing Open Source Work / Hardware related
- Tobias Koppers - Founder and maintainer of Webpack.
Oct 13, 2020
People Doing Open Source Work / Hardware related
- Adam King - RLTrader, Tensortrade and other trading related projects.
May 28, 2020
Open Source Projects
Open Source Projects / Messaging and social media
- Secure Scuttlebutt - A distributed and secure peer-to-peer protocol and social network.
Open Source Projects / Open Source Art
- MyPaint - Painting and drawing program that works nicely with pressure-sensitive tablets, and its dynamic brush engine library.
Apr 26, 2020
Open Source Projects
- JHipster - Open Source application platform for creating Spring Boot + Angular/React/Vue projects in seconds.
Mar 06, 2020
Open Source Projects / Messaging and social media
- Funkwhale - A free, federated and social music server.
Open Source Projects / Operating Systems
- Qubes OS - A reasonably secure operating system.
Open Source Projects / Games
- Battle for Wesnoth - Turn-based strategy game.
Jan 20, 2020
Open Source Projects
- Pixelorama - A free & open-source 2D sprite editor, made with the Godot Engine.
Dec 20, 2019
Open Source Projects
- FreeCAD - Parametric 3D modeler made primarily to design real-life objects of any size.
Nov 28, 2019
Open Source Projects
- ShareX Team - Screen capture and screen sharing tool.
Open Source Projects / Libraries
- stdlib - Standard library for JavaScript and Node.js with an emphasis on scientific computing.
Nov 27, 2019
People Doing Open Source Work / Hardware related
- Feross Aboukhadijeh - WebTorrent, StandardJS, and other JavaScript projects.
Nov 17, 2019
Open Source Projects
- Duplicati - Backup client.
- Olive - High quality video editing and compositing software.
- Open Broadcaster Software, #2 - Video recording and live streaming software.
- Remmina - Remote desktop client.
- V Programming Language - Statically typed compiled programming language similar to Go, influenced by Oberon, Rust, Swift.
Open Source Projects / Messaging and social media
- postActiv - Microblogging platform.
Open Source Projects / Libraries
- Zappa - A server-less Python framework.
Open Source Projects / Operating Systems
- Parrot - Security-related Debian distribution.
- ReactOS - A free Windows-compatible Operating System
People Doing Open Source Work / Hardware related
- Andrius Štikonas - KDE contributor, mainly KDE Partition Manager.
- Jorge Bucaran - Hyperapp and many other JavaScript projects.
Oct 20, 2019
Open Source Projects / Operating Systems
- Serenity OS #2 - A graphical Unix-like OS for x86, with 90s aesthetics.
People Doing Open Source Work / Hardware related
- Kévin Dunglas - API Platform, Vulcain, Mercure and Symfony contributions.
Oct 19, 2019
Open Source Projects / Messaging and social media
Open Source Projects / Libraries
People Doing Open Source Work / Hardware related
- Dimitri Fontaine - Various contributions to the PostgreSQL ecosystem (pgloader, pg_auto_failover), Emacs libraries (el-get), author.
- Felipe Lima - Various projects and libraries like OkReplay, AirMapView, AsymmetricGridView, GifImageView, Wombat.
- Khoa Pham - A multitude of libraries, applications and articles about iOS/Cocoa,
- Lars Moelleken - Various PHP libraries and OSS contributions.
- Nick Sweeting - ArchiveBox and OSS contributions but also articles and documentation.
- Pedro Carrasco - Various iOS libraries and projects.
- Sanjay Madan, #2 - Mowglii apps, author of Itsycal and Snk.
- Stéphane Peter - AudioKit contributor, Makeself and other libraries and projects.
- Tim Oliver - Multitude of iOS libraries and various contribution to the iOS ecosystem.
Oct 15, 2019
Open Source Projects
- openage - Real time strategy game engine.
- OpenFAAS - Serverless platform.
People Doing Open Source Work / Hardware related
- Daniel Gultsch - Conversations Jabber client.
- David Hewitt - ElementaryOS contributor, Torrential, Clipped.
- Dominik Honnef, #2 - Working on tooling for the Go programming language.
- Ethan Lee - Contributions to FNA, SDL2 C# and other projects.
- Gabriel Gonzalez - Dhall language, Nix and Haskell educational projects and Haskell libraries and tool.
- Gilbert Pellegrom - Raneto, Vue.js libraries and more.
- James 'Purpleidea' - mgmt config, articles and more.
- Matt Lewis - Angular-calendar and other angular components.
- Matthieu Napoli - Bref, PHP-DI and other PHP libraries.
- Max Bridgland - Various pentesting frameworks and tools.
- Nicolas Hafner - Various Common Lisp libraries.
- Oleh Krehel - GNU Emacs plugins, maintainer of Ivy/Swiper/Counsel, Hydra, Avy, Lispy, and more.
- Pedro Piñera - Tuist and XcodeProj libraries, articles.
Sep 21, 2019
Open Source Projects
- Laigter - Automatic normal/specular/occlussion/parallax map generator for 2D game sprites.
Sep 13, 2019
Open Source Projects / Operating Systems
- Slackware Linux - Linux distribution.
Jul 14, 2019
Open Source Projects / Operating Systems
- Elementary OS - Ubuntu variant.
- FreeDOS - MS-DOS compatible operating system.
Jul 09, 2019
Open Source Projects
- Godot Engine - Complete 3D engine.
- HaxeFlixel - Cross-platform 2D game engine.
Open Source Projects / Games
- Play! - PS2 emulator.
Jun 10, 2019
Open Source Projects
- iTerm2 - macOS terminal replacement.
Open Source Projects / Games
- Improved Initiative - D&D tabletop role-playing game combat tracker.
May 19, 2019
People Doing Open Source Work / Hardware related
- Jacky Alcine - Projects in the IndieWeb sphere, Koype and contributions to other open source projects.
May 18, 2019
Open Source Projects
People Doing Open Source Work / Hardware related
- Dave Täht - Working on improving the Internet.
- Michal Čihař - Contributor to Weblate and phpMyAdmin.
Apr 11, 2019
Other kinds of content / Videos
- Joel Yliluoma, #2, #3 - Programming videos.
Feb 28, 2019
Open Source Projects
- NativeScript-Vue - Native mobile applications with NativeScript and Vue.
Open Source Projects / Messaging and social media
- MissKey - Federated microblogging platform.
People Doing Open Source Work / Hardware related
- Kevin Cozens - Contributor to projects such as GIMP, OpenSimulator, KiCad and TinyScheme.
Other kinds of content / Articles and Tutorials
- Kyle Simpson - Author of the "You Don't Know JS" book series. Doing articles, podcasts and OSS contributions.
Feb 22, 2019
People Doing Open Source Work / Hardware related
- Dragan Djuric - Creator of Uncomplicate, a family of Clojure libraries for AI, ML, and GPU high performance computing.
Feb 20, 2019
People Doing Open Source Work / Hardware related
- Max Howell - Creator of Homebrew, maintainer of PromiseKit and a multitude of other project for Apple platforms.
Feb 08, 2019
People Doing Open Source Work / Hardware related
- Reini Urban - Maintaining and developing software such as cperl, parrot, a lot of perl5 modules, safeclib and libredwg.
Feb 04, 2019
Open Source Projects / Games
- Cxbx-reloaded - Xbox emulator for Windows.
Open Source Projects / Hardware related
- DIGImend - Improving Linux support for (non-Wacom) graphics tablets.
People Doing Open Source Work / Hardware related
- Ryan C. Gordon, #2 - Linux ports of games, game-related utilities.
Feb 03, 2019
Other kinds of content / Videos
- Fun Fun Function - JavaScript and general programming videos.
- LiveOverflow - IT security videos.
Jan 29, 2019
Open Source Projects / Messaging and social media
- The Lounge - Modern web IRC client.
Open Source Projects / Operating Systems
- Ubuntu Touch, #2 - Touch-friendly mobile version of Ubuntu.
People Doing Open Source Work / Hardware related
- Nate Graham - KDE contributor.
Jan 25, 2019
Other kinds of content / Videos
- The Coding Train - Programming tutorials.
- ThreatWire - Hak5 security show.
Other kinds of content / Podcasts
- Destination Linux - Linux discussion and news related podcast.
- This Week in Linux - Linux News Podcast, 2-3 times more topics per episode than other podcasts.
Jan 22, 2019
Open Source Projects
- Albert launcher - Keyboard launcher written in C++/Qt.
Open Source Projects / Hardware related
- LibrePCB - Software to develop printed circuit boards.
People Doing Open Source Work / Hardware related
- JeanHeyd Meneide - Creates C++ libraries and standards proposals.
- Steve Purcell - MELPA lisp package archive and other software tooling.
Jan 21, 2019
Open Source Projects
- Perkeep - Personal storage system.
- Webpack - JavaScript module bundler.
Open Source Projects / Messaging and social media
- Flarum - Forum platform.
Open Source Projects / Libraries
- Musl libc - The Musl libc project.
- Phalcon - Web framework delivered as a C extension for PHP.
Open Source Projects / Games
- Xenia - Xbox 360 emulator.
People Doing Open Source Work / Hardware related
- Daniël Klabbers - Contributor to Flarum and other PHP projects.
Jan 20, 2019
Open Source Projects
- bcachefs - Linux filesystem.
- Blender - 3D creation suite
- SysV init - System V init implementation.
People Doing Open Source Work / Hardware related
- Drew DeVault, #2, #3 - sway, wlroots, sr.ht, scdoc, aerc, and more.
- Eric S. Raymond - Nethack, GPSd, author of "The Cathedral and the Bazaar".
- Kurt Kremitzki, #2 - FreeCAD contributor and Debian packager.
- Yorik van Havre, #2 - FreeCAD contributor.
Other kinds of content / Articles and Tutorials
- DistroWatch - Reviews and tutorials for Linux/BSD.
Jan 16, 2019
Open Source Projects
- Calibre - E-books manager.
- Deluge - BitTorrent client.
- DokuWiki - Wiki application.
- Homebrew - Package manager for macOS.
- MuseScore - Music notation software.
- OpenShot - Video editor.
- Paperwork - Personal document manager.
- PlantUML - UML diagram creation software.
- Project Lombok - Java editor plugin.
- Transmission - BitTorrent client.
- VideoLAN - Maker of the VLC video player.
Open Source Projects / Messaging and social media
- Reddit Enhancement Suite - Reddit browser extension.
Open Source Projects / Libraries
- Laravel - PHP framework.
- LibGDX - Game development framework.
- Moleculer - Progressive microservices framework for Node.js.
- Vue.js - Vue.js.
- Yii framework - PHP framework.
Open Source Projects / Operating Systems
- GhostBSD - Desktop-focused BSD OS.
- Linux Lite - Linux distribution.
- Ubuntu Mate - Ubuntu variant.
Open Source Projects / Games
- Libretro Team - Libretro, RetroArch and Lakka.
Open Source Projects / Open Source Art
Open Source Projects / Hardware related
- OctoPrint - Web interface for 3D printers.
People Doing Open Source Work / Hardware related
- Andreas Kainz - LibreOffice designer.
- Andreas Pardeike - Programming tutorials, games and mods.
- Eevee - Games, applications and articles.
- Fabio Zadrozny - Working on PyDev and related projects.
- Joey Hess - git-annex, keysafe, other Linux software.
- Jonathan Müller - Various C++ libraries, tools, articles.
- Kozec - Syncthing-GTK and SC-Controller.
- Nils Maier - Download Them All! Firefox and Chrome extension.
- Ondřej Surý - Debian packager.
- Patrick Wardle - Owner of Objective-See, various macOS security tools and articles.
- Rekka Bellum & Devine Lu Linvega - Open source tools and games.
- Rob Landley - Working on Toybox, mkroot and various other projects.
- Scott Lahteine - Contributor to Marlin Firmware for 3D printers.
- Sindre Sorhus - Countless open source projects.
- Steven Troughton-Smith - Various iOS/macOS software.
- Thomas M. Edwards - Gaming related projects.
- Timothée Giet - GCompris contributor.
Other kinds of content / Podcasts
- The Debug Log - Game development.
Oct 04, 2018
Open Source Projects
- Compiler Explorer - Online decompiler and compiler explorer.
Open Source Projects / Messaging and social media
- Dekko Project - Ubuntu email client.
Open Source Projects / Libraries
- Babel - JavaScript compiler.
Open Source Projects / Operating Systems
- Redox OS - OS written in Rust.
Open Source Projects / Games
- Citybound - City building game.
- Rpcs3 - PS3 emulator.
People Doing Open Source Work / Hardware related
- Egoist - Various JavaScript libraries and tools.
- Franck Nijhof - Creates Home Assistant add-ons and helps out on the main project.
Other kinds of content / Articles and Tutorials
- Alecaddd - Various programming tutorials.
- Chris Bradfield - Programming tutorials for kids.
- Fluent C++ - C++ articles.
- Meeting C++ - C++ articles.
- Modernes C++ - C++ articles.
Other kinds of content / Videos
- Corey Schafer - Python tutorials.
Other kinds of content / Podcasts
- Late Night Linux - Linux and news.
- More Than Just Code - Podcast for iOS developers.