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Coding

MegaLinter – analyzes the consistency of your code

August 30, 2025 Eilidih Parris Programming

MegaLinter combines code linting, formatting and security checks with local and CI/CD workflows, automated fixes and detailed reports.

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remarklint – check Markdown code style

August 29, 2025 Eilidih Parris Programming

remark-lint provides extensible remark plugins and presets for checking Markdown style, document structure and consistency in workflows.

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gofumpt – stricter gofmt

August 28, 2025 Eilidih Parris CLI, Programming

gofumpt applies a stricter subset of gofmt formatting with additional opinionated rules, extra formatting checks and deterministic output.

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HTML-validate – offline HTML5 validator

August 27, 2025 Eilidih Parris Programming

HTML-validate is an Offline HTML5 validator. It validates either a full document or a smaller (incomplete) template

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LintHTML – HTML5 linter and validator

August 27, 2025 Eilidih Parris Programming

LintHTML is a fork of htmllint featuring a built-in CLI and multiple bug fixes and improvements.

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Coding

Staticcheck – advanced Go linter

August 26, 2025 Eilidih Parris CLI, Programming

Using static analysis, Staticcheck finds bugs and performance issues, offers simplifications, and enforces style rules.

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Vet – examines Go source code and reports suspicious constructs

August 25, 2025 Eilidih Parris CLI, Programming

Vet examines Go source code for suspicious constructs, supports JSON output and suggested fixes, and can run alternative Go analysis tools.

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OCLint – static code analysis tool

August 25, 2025 Eilidih Parris CLI, Programming

OCLint is a static code analysis tool for improving quality and reducing defects by inspecting C, C++ and Objective-C code.

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Coding

cpplint – static code checker for C++

August 24, 2025 Eilidih Parris CLI, Programming

Cpplint is a command-line tool to check C/C++ files for style issues according to Google’s C++ style guide.

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Cppcheck – static analysis tool

August 23, 2025 Eilidih Parris CLI, GUI, Programming

Cppcheck is a static analysis tool for C/C++ code. It provides unique code analysis to detect bugs and focuses on detecting undefined behaviour

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Documentation Generators

ls-lint – fast file and directory name linter

August 22, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

ls-lint is an extremely fast directory and filename linter. Bring some structure to your project filesystem.

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Coding

Perl-Critic – static analyzer

August 21, 2025 Eilidih Parris Programming

Perl::Critic is an extensible framework for creating and applying coding standards to Perl source code.

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gofmt – formats Go programs

August 17, 2025 Eilidih Parris CLI, Programming

gofmt formats Go source code consistently, can simplify code, rewrite expressions, show diffs and process files, directories or stdin.

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golangci-lint – fast Go linters runner

August 17, 2025 Eilidih Parris CLI, Programming

golangci-lint runs a large collection of Go linters and formatters with caching, parallel execution, autofixes and flexible configuration.

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Program code

Pyrefly – fast Python type checker and language server

August 13, 2025 Eilidih Parris Programming

Pyrefly is a fast Python type checker and language server with incremental analysis, type inference and integration with popular editors

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Documentation

textlint – pluggable linting tool for text and Markdown

May 18, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Documents

textlint is a pluggable natural-language linter with first-class Markdown support, configurable rules, fixers and custom output formatters

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dupeGuru – find duplicate files

September 28, 2020 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, System Software, Utilities

dupeGuru finds duplicate files in a given set of directories and sub-directories. It recognizes duplicates by comparing MD5 signature of files followed by a byte-to-byte comparison. Here’s our review of this open source program.

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