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IHP – modern batteries-included Haskell web framework, built on top of Haskell and Nix

November 5, 2023 Steve Emms Programming

IHP is a modern batteries-included Haskell web framework, built on top of Haskell and Nix.

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Yesod – Haskell web framework

November 5, 2023 Steve Emms Programming

Yesod is a Haskell web framework for productive development of type-safe, RESTful, high performance web applications.

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IPCop – firewall distribution

November 5, 2023 Steve Emms Security

The IPCop Firewall is a Linux firewall distribution. It is geared towards home and SOHO users.

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Smoothwall Express – open source firewall solution

November 5, 2023 Steve Emms Security

Smoothwall Express is an open source firewall that includes its own security-hardened Linux operating system.

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Tailwind CSS – utility-first CSS framework

November 5, 2023 Steve Emms Web Apps

Tailwind CSS is a utility-first CSS framework packed with classes like flex, pt-4, text-center and rotate-90 to build any design.

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Easystroke Gesture Recognition

November 5, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

Easystroke is an open source gesture-recognition application. Gestures or strokes are movements that you make with you mouse (or your pen, finger etc.).

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Audio Programming

ChucK – concurrent, on-the-fly programming language for real-time sound synthesis and music creation

November 5, 2023 Steve Emms Multimedia, Programming

ChucK is an open source concurrent, on-the-fly programming language for real-time sound synthesis and music creation.

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Extempore – cyber-physical programming environment

November 5, 2023 Steve Emms Multimedia, Programming

Extempore is a programming language and runtime environment designed to support cyberphysical programming.

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Audio Programming

Faust – functional programming language for sound synthesis and audio processing

November 5, 2023 Steve Emms Multimedia, Programming

Faust (Functional Audio Stream) is a functional programming language for sound synthesis and audio processing.

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Audio Programming

Glicol – graph-oriented live coding language

November 5, 2023 Steve Emms Multimedia, Programming

GLICOL (an acronym for “graph-oriented live coding language”) is a computer music language and an audio DSP library.

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Audio Programming

JFugue – music programming for Java and JVM

November 5, 2023 Steve Emms Multimedia, Programming

JFugue is a Java API for music programming.

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Audio Programming

Pure Data – real-time graphical programming environment

November 5, 2023 Steve Emms Multimedia, Programming

Pure Data (or Pd) is a real-time graphical programming environment for audio, video, and graphical processing.

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Audio Programming

RTcmix – digital signal processing and sound synthesis language

November 5, 2023 Steve Emms Multimedia, Programming

RTcmix is a digital signal processing and sound synthesis language.

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Audio Programming

SuperCollider – platform for audio synthesis and algorithmic composition

November 5, 2023 Steve Emms Multimedia, Programming

SuperCollider is a cross-platform environment and programming language for real time audio synthesis and algorithmic composition.

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Git Clients

hub – command line tool that extends git with features and commands

November 4, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

hub is a command line tool that wraps git in order to extend it with extra features and commands that make working with GitHub easier.

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Messaging

Rambox – cross platform messaging app

November 4, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

Rambox is an open source cross-platform messaging and emailing app that combines common web applications into one application.

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Messaging

Kopete – multi-protocol instant messaging client

November 4, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

Kopete is KDE’s instant messaging (IM) client. The software is designed to be modular and plugin based.

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Messaging

Signal – encrypted communications app

November 4, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

Signal Desktop is an app that lets you send or receive Signal messages using your laptop or desktop computer. It runs independently of a web browser.

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Underrun – twin stick shooter game

November 3, 2023 Steve Emms Games

Underrun is a twin stick shooter using WebGL. The game is written in JavaScript.

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Taisei – shoot’em up game in the style of the Touhou Project

November 3, 2023 Steve Emms Games

Taisei is a top down perspective shoot’em up game in the style of the Touhou Project. It’s fast, furious, and good fun to play.

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