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bitwize-ai /

Logue

A privacy-first macOS meeting-notes and writing app that runs on-device

Developer toolsLicense unchecked
10#848
isaqueseneda /

shieldfont

ShieldFont A web font that makes written content costly to scrape for AI trainin

Developer toolsLicense unchecked
10#849
sprawz /

piuma

Piuma – A minimal, feather-weight, site builder in Go

Developer toolsLicense unchecked
10#851
ZeetLex /

knitting-library

A Selfhosted Knitting Library

Developer toolsLicense unchecked
10#852
Librefolio /

LibreFolio

LibreFolio – Self-hosted portfolio tracker with 11 broker imports

Developer toolsLicense unchecked
10#853
oteomamo /

SALT

Salt: Salience-Aware Lexical Trie for Long-Context Compression

Developer toolsLicense unchecked
10#854
ail-project /

tempolocus

Tempolocus looks at time-series activity patterns to infer a location

Developer toolsLicense unchecked
10#855
google /

xrblocks

JavaScript library for rapid AI and XR prototyping

Developer toolsLicense unchecked
10#856
vyakunin /

homebound

Homebound – self-host your social-media history, search it, talk to it

Developer toolsLicense unchecked
10#857
msmarkgu /

TrulyFreeOCR

TrulyFreeOCR – Permissive-license OCR to PDF, self-contained, MRC compression

Developer toolsLicense unchecked
10#858
morishuz /

delaunay32

Exact, parallel 2D Delaunay triangulation for int32 coordinates

Developer toolsLicense unchecked
10#859
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Leyukaka /

fancontrol-rs

Fancontrol-rs rust windows fan controls specdrivendesigned open source

Developer toolsLicense unchecked
10#860
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flythenimbus /

bramble

Bramble – Local-first password manager

Developer toolsLicense unchecked
10#861
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jbunke /

painterly

Painterly – Turn pictures into digital paintings without generative AI

Developer toolsLicense unchecked
10#862
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buger /

jsonparser

The fastest JSON parser for Go

Developer toolsLicense unchecked
10#863
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hexorcist404 /

apotrope

Apotrope – Offline Windows security auditor (like Lynis, for Windows)

Developer toolsLicense unchecked
10#864

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