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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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Issue Tracking

15 Best Free and Open Source Linux Issue Tracking Systems

April 16, 2025 Steve Emms Programming, Roundup, Web Apps

Issue tracking systems play an important role for any development project and collaborative venture whether open source or not.

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PDF

JasperReports – reporting engine written in Java

April 11, 2025 Steve Emms Programming

JasperReports is a widely used free and open source business intelligence and reporting engine. It is a reporting library.

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Kondo recursively cleans project directories

March 29, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, Programming

Kondo recursively cleans project directories. Supported project types include Cargo, Node, Unity, SBT, Haskell Stack, Maven, Unreal Engine, and more.

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Software

12 Lightweight Markup Languages

March 25, 2025 Eilidih Parris Languages, Programming, Roundup

A lightweight markup language is a modern system for annotating a document in a way that is syntactically distinguishable from the text.

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Git Clients

mamediff manages unstaged and staged Git diffs

March 22, 2025 Steve Emms Programming, TUI

mamediff is a TUI editor for managing unstaged and staged Git diffs. It’s written in the Rust language.

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Coding

Taichi Lang – productive, portable, and performant GPU programming

March 20, 2025 Eilidih Parris Programming

Taichi Lang is an imperative, parallel programming language for high-performance numerical computation.

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Coding

6 Best Free and Open Source PHP Microframeworks

March 16, 2025 Steve Emms Programming, Roundup

This article examines the best PHP microframeworks. Micro means the framework is small, with little or no tools and libraries.

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Development Tools

Leaf – slim and lightweight PHP framework

March 16, 2025 Steve Emms Programming

Leaf is a slim and lightweight PHP framework focused on developer experience, usability, and high-performance code.

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10 Best Free and Open Source Snippet Tools

March 13, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Programming, Roundup, Utilities

A snippet tool is utility software that can boost your productivity. They are especially useful to save complex commands

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Text Editor

10 Best Free and Open Source Self-Hosted Pastebin Alternatives

March 12, 2025 Steve Emms Programming, Roundup

A pastebin or text storage site is a type of online content-hosting service where users can store plain text (e.g. source code snippets for code review).

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Development Tools

8 Top Free and Open Source Lua Web Frameworks

March 9, 2025 Eilidih Parris Programming, Roundup

Here’s our recommended web frameworks for Lua captured in a legendary Linuxlinks’ chart. We only feature free and open source software.

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