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Takes – lightweight Java web framework

August 5, 2026 Steve Emms Programming

Takes is a lightweight Java web framework built around immutable, object-oriented components.

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Prow – Kubernetes-based continuous integration and continuous delivery system

August 5, 2026 Steve Emms Programming

Prow runs jobs triggered by pull requests, repository updates, scheduled events and other activity, then reports their status.

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14 Best Free and Open Source JavaScript Runtime Environments

August 5, 2026 Eilidih Parris Programming, Roundup, Web Apps

The JavaScript runtime environment provides your scripts with utility libraries which can be used during execution.

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Coding

Dune – composable build system for OCaml projects

August 5, 2026 Steve Emms Programming

Dune is a fast and composable build system for OCaml projects. It handles the low-level details of OCaml compilation

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Semaphore Community Edition – self-hosted continuous integration and delivery platform

August 4, 2026 Steve Emms Programming

Semaphore helps development teams automate software builds and tests using YAML-defined workflows, parallel execution and self-hosted agents.

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Revision Control

15 Best Free and Open Source Linux Revision Control Tools

August 4, 2026 Steve Emms Programming, Roundup

Version control systems play an essential role for developers. Explore our recommended free and open source tools.

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pypdf – read, manipulate, and write PDF files

August 4, 2026 Steve Emms Programming

pypdf is a pure Python library for reading, manipulating, and writing PDF files.

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Software

FASTBuild – high performance build system

August 4, 2026 Steve Emms Programming

FASTBuild is a high performance build system for Linux, macOS and Windows. It supports distributed compilation and object caching

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Piccolo – Python object-relational mapper

August 4, 2026 Steve Emms Programming

Piccolo is a Python object-relational mapper (ORM) and query builder designed around clean, expressive syntax.

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SQLModel – Python object-relational mapping library

August 3, 2026 Steve Emms Programming

SQLModel is a Python object-relational mapping library designed to simplify interaction with SQL databases.

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Revision Control

HugeSCM – cloud-native version control system

August 3, 2026 Steve Emms Programming

HugeSCM is a cloud-native version control system designed for extremely large repositories.

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PDF

PyMuPDF – high-performance Python PDF manipulation library

August 3, 2026 Steve Emms Programming

PyMuPDF is a Python library for extracting, analysing, converting, rendering, and manipulating PDF and other document formats.

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Coding

Please – fast, cross-language build system

August 3, 2026 Steve Emms Programming

Please is a fast, cross-language build system with an emphasis on extensibility and reproducibility.

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Coding

PipeCD – GitOps-style continuous delivery platform

August 3, 2026 Steve Emms Programming

PipeCD is a GitOps-style continuous delivery platform designed to provide a consistent deployment and operations experience

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DevOps

Flux – continuous delivery and GitOps toolkit for Kubernetes

August 2, 2026 Steve Emms Programming

Flux is a continuous delivery and GitOps toolkit for Kubernetes. It keeps clusters synchronized.

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Development Tools

11 Top Free and Open Source C++ Web Frameworks

August 2, 2026 Eilidih Parris Programming, Roundup

We recommend the best free and open source C++ frameworks.

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Revision Control

Lore – centralized, content-addressed version control system

August 2, 2026 Steve Emms Programming

Lore is a centralized, content-addressed version control system designed to scale across large repositories and development teams.

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DevOps

Argo CD – declarative GitOps continuous delivery tool

August 2, 2026 Steve Emms Programming

Argo CD is a declarative GitOps continuous delivery tool for Kubernetes. It uses Git repositories as the source of truth.

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Paozhu – full-stack C++ web framework

August 2, 2026 Steve Emms Programming

Paozhu integrates a web server, object-relational mapper, routing system, template support and administration interface.

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IDE

TTT Editor – IDE-style text editor

August 1, 2026 Steve Emms Programming, TUI

TTT Editor is an IDE-style text editor that runs entirely in the terminal.

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