Markdown is a plain text formatting syntax created by John Gruber in 2004. We feature our recommended open source Markdown editors.
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9 Best Free and Open Source Linux Caching Systems
Caches are employed in a variety of different ways. Here’s our recommended free and open source caching systems.
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jrnlc – plain-text terminal journal
jrnlc is a personal project built to be simple, fast, and predictable. It stores journal entries in a plain-text file
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bvi – hex editor
The bvi is a display-oriented editor for binary files (hex editor), based on the vi text editor.
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Ekphos – terminal-based research tool
Ekphos is a lightweight, fast, terminal-based markdown research tool built with Rust.
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sqlit – lazygit of SQL databases
sqlit supports all major databases: SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite, MariaDB, FirebirdSQL, Oracle, DuckDB, CockroachDB, and more.
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16 Best Free and Open Source Vim-Like Text Editors
Text editors remain a controversial area. Here are our recommended Vim-like text editors. They are all released under an open source license.
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12 Best Free and Open Source Linux Document-Oriented Databases
We pick databases which can offer better performance in your application as well as quicker development time.
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Dawn – lightweight document drafter
Dawn is a distraction-free writing environment with live markdown rendering.
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Twig – terminal JSON viewer and YAML viewer
Twig is a high-performance Terminal JSON Viewer and YAML Viewer, designed to replace cat, less, and jq for interactive data exploration.
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10 Best Free and Open Source Neovim GUIs
Neovim’s RPC support lets developers create new front-ends (GUIs) for Neovim that are outside of the terminal. We make our recommendations.
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treemd – modern Markdown viewer
treemd is a modern markdown viewer combining tree-based navigation with interactive TUI. It’s like tree but interactive.
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Hextazy – colorful hexadecimal editor
Hextazy is a colorful hexadecimal editor, inspired by hexyl.
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10 Best Free and Open Source Distraction-Free Tools for Writers
Here are the finest distraction-free applications to help you focus on writing without interruption.
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7 Best Free and Open Source MongoDB GUIs
MongoDB is a high performance, open source, non-relational NoSQL database written in C++. It’s at the forefront of the NoSQL database management system movement.
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mdfried – Markdown viewer
mdfried is a markdown viewer for the terminal that renders headers as Bigger Text than the rest.
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Bookokrat – terminal-based EPUB reader
Bookokrat is a terminal-based EPUB reader with a split-view library and reader, full MathML and image rendering
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Blip – MySQL monitor
Blip is a MySQL monitor: it collects and reports metrics from MySQL to monitoring platforms like Datadog.
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mdq – select and render specific elements in a Markdown document
mdq aims to do for Markdown what jq does for JSON: provide an easy way to zero in on specific parts of a document.
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ad – adaptable text editor
ad aims at combining a modal editing interface of likes of vi and kakoune with the approach to extensibility of Plan9’s Acme.
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