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Author: Eilidih Parris

Checkstyle – Java Code Quality Tool

December 7, 2025 Eilidih Parris CLI, Programming

Checkstyle is a tool that ensures adherence to a code standard or a set of best practices.

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Checker Framework – pluggable type-checking for Java

December 6, 2025 Eilidih Parris CLI, Programming

The Checker Framework enhances Java’s type system to make it more powerful and useful. This lets software developers detect and prevent errors

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Infer – static analyzer for Java, C, C++, and Objective-C

December 4, 2025 Eilidih Parris CLI, Programming

Infer is a static analysis tool for Java, C++, Objective-C, and C. Infer is written in OCaml.

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NullAway – eliminate NPEs in Java code

December 4, 2025 Eilidih Parris CLI, Programming

NullAway is a tool that offers fast annotation-based null checking for Java.

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PMD – extensible cross-language static code analyzer

December 3, 2025 Eilidih Parris CLI, Programming

PMD is an extensible multilanguage static code analyzer. It finds common programming flaws like unused variables, empty catch blocks

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YAPF – Python formatter based on clang-format

December 1, 2025 Eilidih Parris Programming

The ultimate goal is that the code YAPF produces is as good as the code that a programmer would write if they were following the style guide.

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blue – Python code formatter

November 30, 2025 Eilidih Parris Programming

blue is a somewhat less uncompromising code formatter than black, the OG of Python formatters.

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SpotBugs – find bugs in Java code

November 27, 2025 Eilidih Parris CLI, Programming

SpotBugs is a program which uses static analysis to look for bugs in Java code. It’s a fork of the abandoned FindBugs.

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Rate My OpenAPI – improve the quality of your OpenAPI specifications

October 16, 2025 Eilidih Parris CLI, Programming

Rate My OpenAPI is a suite of tools designed to help software developers who are using OpenAPI to design and implement their APIs.

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oval – CLI for (O)penAPI Specification document (val)idation

October 15, 2025 Eilidih Parris CLI, Programming

oval is an OpenAPI Specification (OAS) document validator that was built to replace the CLI provided by swagger-tools.

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OpenAPI Spec Validator – validate OpenAPI specifications

October 14, 2025 Eilidih Parris CLI, Programming

OpenAPI Spec Validator checks Swagger and OpenAPI documents on Linux through a Python CLI, importable library and pre-commit integration.

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OAS-Kit – convert Swagger 2.0 definitions to OpenAPI 3.0

October 13, 2025 Eilidih Parris CLI, Programming

OAS-Kit converts Swagger 2.0 definitions to OpenAPI 3.0 and resolve/validate/lint.

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Roq – static site generator

October 8, 2025 Eilidih Parris Web Apps

Roq is a Quarkus-based static site generator with Markdown, AsciiDoc, Qute templates, live preview and extensible publishing features.

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Floskell – flexible Haskell source code pretty printer

October 1, 2025 Eilidih Parris Programming

Floskell started as a fork of version 4 of Chris Done’s hindent. The formatting styles present in hindent 4 have been preserved in spirit

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Nu Html Checker (vnu) – catch mistakes in HTML, CSS and SVG

September 29, 2025 Eilidih Parris Programming

The Nu Html Checker (v.Nu) helps you catch unintended mistakes in your HTML, CSS, and SVG.

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JADX – Dex to Java decompiler

September 24, 2025 Eilidih Parris CLI, GUI, Programming

JADX is command line and GUI tools for producing Java source code from Android Dex and Apk files.

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semgrep – static analysis for many languages

September 18, 2025 Eilidih Parris Programming

Semgrep is a fast, open-source, static analysis tool that searches code, finds bugs, and enforces secure guardrails and coding standards

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Violations Lib – parse report files from static code analysis

September 17, 2025 Eilidih Parris Programming

Violations Lib is a Java library for parsing report files like static code analysis.

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PyMarkdown – Markdown linter

September 17, 2025 Eilidih Parris Programming

PyMarkdown is a Python Markdown linter with a structure-aware parser, focused rule plugins, automatic fixes and pre-commit integration.

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ty – fast Python type checker and language server

September 16, 2025 Eilidih Parris CLI, Programming

ty is a Rust-based Python type checker with incremental analysis, configurable diagnostics and language server integration for editors.

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