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nodes-app /

swift-markdown-engine

I open-sourced a macOS native Markdown rendering engine

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zpphxd /

whitespace

I Made a Mac Native Excalidraw (Open Sourced)

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ivancernja /

crate

Crate – Wireless music manager for Android phones (open source)

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waruyama /

flattype-cyd-demo

Full complex text shaping and rendering on ESP32 with 320KB usable RAM

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orelvis15 /

cavs-oss

CAVS – Open-source content-addressable updates for game assets

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DeepFoldProtein /

patchr

Open-source GUI for editing 3D molecular structures with diffusion

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abhas9 /

escape-run

I vibe coded a free offline Math game for kids

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JieGouAI /

choreo

Choreo – an animation DSL that verifies its own rendered output

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henrygabriels /

binaural-studio

Audio Player with "Binaural Beats" tuned to the same key as your music

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b-aaz /

bmake-extravaganza

Mandelbrot set renderer written in pure [BSD] Makefiles

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bitofabluetit /

knotreel

1d data to 3D topology, AI deepfakes to protien folding

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vifudotdev /

vifu

Vifu – A runtime and visual workflow for building AI-native games

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adam-s /

car-diagnosis

Classify mechanical faults using Contrastive Language-Audio Pretraining

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andrewfader /

crtulum

a Rust, Wayland, Vulkan 3D CRT, screencast application, retroarch cores

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Kjos /

VideoTomb

Encryption for YouTube Videos++

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omar-owis /

VoxelEngine

A GPUdriven voxel engine with binary greedy meshing & indirectrendering

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