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dailysoftwaresystems /

dss-code-prime

DSS Code Prime

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yaomancy /

liuyao-engine

A deterministic I Ching engine, cross-validated against another impl

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anliberant /

obsidian-ai-setup

Obsidian AI Setup – Bootstrap a Personalized Obsidian Vault with AI

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didriksg /

Crisp

Crisp – Open-source display manager for macOS (DDC, HiDPI, presets)

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slow4cyl /

prometheus

An autonomous research system that measures how often it fools itself

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temple-compute /

horus-runtime

Horus-runtime – High Performance Computing workflow manager

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pa /

tessera

Tessera – tmux/Zellij ergonomics for macOS windows

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neospe /

autoops

Multi-region data and service mesh operated by a Makefile

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MaxGfeller /

eremite

Eremite, an offline-first data layer that can talk to any back end

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embedcatalog /

embedcatalog

I created a catalog with embeds for your projects

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silly-tae /

taetype

Taetype – a complete font engine for Rust and WASM

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MartinesEmanuel /

ParanoiaEngine

Paranoia: An automatic chaos engineering tool for Spring

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BotCoder254 /

limboo

The goal isn't to build "another AI IDE."

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HumanGuardrail /

anchored-stability

Garbage-collecting Byzantine, open-membership CRDTs without a quorum

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AALXX /

QueryDrift

QueryDrift fail CI when a PR turns 1 query into N

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valivalivali /

x-os

X-OS – Building an Operating System for the AI Era

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frmoded /

e--

E– – a language you dial between English and Python

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