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Configuration Management

pyinfra – automates infrastructure

October 15, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

pyinfra automates infrastructure at massive scale. It can be used for ad-hoc command execution, service deployment, configuration management.

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Tinyproxy – lightweight HTTP/HTTPS proxy daemon

October 15, 2023 Steve Emms Web Apps

Tinyproxy is a lightweight web proxy daemon. It is designed to be fast and yet small. It is useful for cases such as embedded deployments.

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Web

Polipo – caching web proxy

October 15, 2023 Steve Emms Web Apps

Polipo is a caching HTTP proxy. It listens to requests for web pages from your browser and forwards them to web servers.

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Encryption software

GnuPG – implementation of the OpenPGP standard

October 15, 2023 Steve Emms Internet, Security

GnuPG stands for GNU Privacy Guard and is a tool for secure communication and data storage. It includes an advanced key management facility.

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Apache Solr – enterprise search platform

October 15, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

Solr is a popular, stand alone, fast, open source enterprise search platform from the Apache Lucene project.

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ElasticSearch – distributed RESTful search engine and analytics engine

October 15, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

ElasticSearch is a flexible and powerful open source, distributed RESTful search engine and analytics engine for the cloud.

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Search

MeiliSearch – fast, open-source, easy to use and deploy search engine

October 15, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

MeiliSearch is a RESTful search API. A ready-to-go solution for everyone who wants a fast and relevant search experience for their end-users.

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Xapian – information retrieval library

October 15, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

Xapian is an open source probabilistic information retrieval library. It is a full text search engine library for programmers.

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Search

Sphinx – software search engine

October 15, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

SQL Phrase Index (Sphinx) is an open source software search engine designed with indexing database content in mind. It is written in C++.

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Search

Typesense – fast, typo-tolerant search engine for building delightful search experiences

October 15, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

Typesense is an open source, typo tolerant search engine that delivers fast and relevant results out-of-the-box.

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Reading

gritz – speed text reader

October 15, 2023 Steve Emms Productivity

gritz is a text reader. It makes your reading twice as fast as usual. gritz is free software released under an open source license.

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Photo Gallery

Piwigo – manage your photo collection

October 14, 2023 Steve Emms Web Apps

Piwigo is a photo gallery software for the web that comes with powerful features to publish and manage your collection of pictures.

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Photo Gallery

Coppermine – photo gallery software

October 14, 2023 Steve Emms Web Apps

Coppermine is a multi-purpose, feature-rich and integrated, open source web picture gallery script written in PHP using GD or ImageMagick.

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Photo Gallery

Zenphoto – CMS for self-hosted, gallery focused websites

October 14, 2023 Steve Emms Web Apps

Zenphoto is a mature, standalone open source Content Management System (CMS) for multimedia focused websites.

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Photo Gallery

MediaGoblin – decentralized Web platform for hosting and sharing digital media

October 14, 2023 Steve Emms Web Apps

MediaGoblin is a free software media publishing platform that anyone can run. MediaGoblin is free and open source software.

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Photo Gallery

Lychee – self-hosted photo-management tool

October 14, 2023 Steve Emms Web Apps

Lychee is an open source photo management tool, which runs on your server or web space. Installing is a matter of seconds.

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Photo Gallery

fgallery – modern, minimalist JavaScript photo gallery

October 14, 2023 Steve Emms Web Apps

fgallery is a free and open source static photo gallery generator with no frills that sports a stylish, minimalist appearance.

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Science

Gazebo Sim – robot simulation made easy

October 14, 2023 Steve Emms Scientific

Gazebo Sim offers the ability to accurately and efficiently simulate populations of robots in complex indoor and outdoor environments.

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Coding

Flask – Microframework for Python based on Werkzeug, Jinja2

October 14, 2023 Steve Emms Programming

Flask is a micro web framework written in Python based on the Werkzeug toolkit and Jinja2 template engine.

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Coding

FastAPI – web framework for building APIs

October 14, 2023 Steve Emms Programming

FastAPI is a modern, fast (high-performance), web framework for building APIs with Python 3.6+ based on standard Python type hints.

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