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LocalStack is a cloud service emulator

July 15, 2025 Steve Emms Programming

LocalStack is a cloud service emulator that runs in a single container on your laptop or in your CI environment.

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Uiua is a general purpose array-oriented programming language

July 8, 2025 Steve Emms Programming

Uiua is a general purpose array-oriented programming language with a focus on simplicity, beauty, and tacit code.

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DevOps

iaito – official graphical interface for radare2

July 2, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Programming

iaito is the official graphical interface for radare2, a libre reverse engineering framework.

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Google Firebase

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Google Firebase

June 28, 2025 Steve Emms Programming, Software

Google Firebase is a platform developed by Google for creating mobile and web applications. What are the best free and open source alternatives?

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roobuilder – Vala and JavaScript IDE

June 24, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Programming

It’s used to build Vala Desktop applications and JavaScript UI’s using the roojs libraries (for bootstrap and classic).

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Git Clients

Stage – Git GUI client for Linux desktops

June 20, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Programming

Stage is a Git GUI client inspired by Magit. This is free and open source software written in the Rust language.

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Coding

Sysprof – profile an application or entire system

June 12, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, Programming

Sysprof is a sampling profiler that uses a kernel module to generate stacktraces which are then interpreted by the userspace program “sysprof”.

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Nelson is a numerical computational language

May 29, 2025 Steve Emms Programming

Nelson is a numerical computational language providing a comprehensive and intuitive environment for engineers, scientists, and students.

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yeTTY views logs from serial ports

May 28, 2025 Steve Emms Programming

yeTTY is an application for embedded developers to view logs from a serial port.

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Automation

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Mule ESB

May 22, 2025 Steve Emms Productivity, Programming

Mule ESB (Mule Enterprise Service Bus) is a lightweight, Java-based platform that helps the integration of various applications and systems.

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Programming Books

34 Excellent Free Books to Learn all about R

May 19, 2025 Erik Karlsson Books, Programming

This article recommends free books which will teach you the basics of R, how to produce amazing plots, how to apply R to lots of disciplines, and how to efficiently program in R. Many of the books are open source.

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IDE

ZeroBrane Studio – lightweight Lua-based IDE for Lua

May 16, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Programming

ZeroBrane Studio is a lightweight Lua IDE with code completion, syntax highlighting, live coding, code analyzer, and debugging support.

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JSON Tools

17 Best Free and Open Source JSON Tools

May 16, 2025 Steve Emms Programming, Roundup

JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) is a standard, popular and lightweight data text-oriented format based on JavaScript object syntax to represent structured data.

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UIBeam is a lightweight, JSX-style HTML template engine

May 10, 2025 Steve Emms Programming

UIBeam features JSX-style template syntax with compile-time checks.

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Programming Books

8 Excellent Free Books to Learn Julia

May 8, 2025 Erik Karlsson Books, Programming

Julia is a high-level, high-performance, homoiconic and functional dynamic programming language for technical computing. Its roots are in Lisp.

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Testing Software

15 Best Free and Open Source Test Automation Tools

April 29, 2025 Steve Emms Programming, Roundup

Test automation frameworks are a set of best practices, common tools, and libraries that help quality-assurance testers.

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Testing Software

Cerberus Testing is a low-code test automation platform

April 29, 2025 Steve Emms Programming

Cerberus Testing is a low-code test automation platform that supports testing Web, iOS, Android and API (REST, SOAP and Kafka) applications.

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Automation

Actionsflow automates developers’ workflows based on GitHub actions

April 29, 2025 Steve Emms Productivity, Programming

Actionsflow helps you automate workflows – it’s a free IFTTT/Zapier alternative for developers.

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Programming Books

48 Excellent Free Books to Learn Python

April 20, 2025 Erik Karlsson Books, Programming, Roundup

This article selects an extensive range of high quality Python books. Readers are presented with a diverse set of books with general texts designed for beginners, intermediate, and advanced programmers.

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fastmod – fast partial replacement for codemod

April 19, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

fastmod is a tool to assist you with large-scale codebase refactors that can be partially automated but still require human oversight

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