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Sysdig – dig deeper

July 15, 2025 Steve Emms Security, System Software

Sysdig is a universal system visibility tool with native support for containers.

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EmptyEpsilon – spaceship bridge simulator game

July 5, 2025 Steve Emms Games

EmptyEpsilon is a spaceship bridge simulator game. It’s fully open source, so it can be modified in any way people wish.

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Web Design

Algernon – small self-contained pure-Go web server

June 22, 2025 Steve Emms Web Apps

Algernon is a mall self-contained pure-Go web server with Lua, Teal, Markdown, Ollama, HTTP/2, QUIC, Redis, SQLite and PostgreSQL support.

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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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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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Development Tools

Fullmoon – fast and minimalistic web framework based on Redbean

March 5, 2025 Eilidih Parris Programming

Fullmoon is a fast and minimalistic web framework based on Redbean — a portable, single-file distributable web server.

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Files

nvim-tree – file explorer for Neovim

January 5, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity, Utilities

nvim-tree.lua is a file explorer / filesystem tree view plugin for Neovim. It’s written in Lua.

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Static Site Generators

4 Best Free and Open Source Lua Static Site Generators

November 17, 2024 Eilidih Parris Roundup, Web Apps

Here are the best Lua static site generators. These tools are released under a freely distributable license.

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Static Site Generator

Sitegen – static site generator

October 25, 2024 Eilidih Parris Web Apps

Sitegen is a static site generator written in MoonScript and Lua.

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Security

awall – Linux firewall configuration tool

October 12, 2024 Steve Emms Security

awall is a Linux firewall configuration tool, providing various benefits over plain iptables.

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Coding

xmake – cross-platform build utility based on Lua

June 8, 2024 Steve Emms Programming

xmake is a modern build tool that aims to be simple, fast, and offering powerful dependency package integration.

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Application Servers

Hot Free and Open Source Application Servers for Lua

May 23, 2024 Eilidih Parris Programming, Roundup, Web Apps

An application server is computer software which provides the business logic for an application program. Here’s our recommended servers for Lua.

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Static Site Generators

Satelito – static site generator

May 19, 2024 Eilidih Parris Web Apps

Satelito is a static site generator.Satelito uses Markdown (and HTML) for basic content and optionally Lua files for metadata

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Security

BunkerWeb – next-generation Web Application Firewall

April 16, 2024 Steve Emms Security

BunkerWeb is a next-generation and open-source Web Application Firewall (WAF) which offers easy integration with existing environments.

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Typesetting Tools

SILE – typesetting system

April 11, 2024 Steve Emms Documents

SILE is a typesetting system. Its job is to produce beautiful printed documents.

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Game Tools

Spring – free real-time strategy game

November 14, 2023 Steve Emms Games

Spring has the ambitious aim of creating the best ever real-time strategy, a strategic game that is distinctly not turn-based.

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Text Editor

vis – vi-like editor based on Plan 9’s structural regular expressions

November 12, 2023 Steve Emms Documents

vis seeks to be a modern, legacy free, simple yet efficient editor combining the strengths of both vi(m) and sam.

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Text Editor

medit – text editor

November 12, 2023 Steve Emms Documents

medit is an open source programming and around-programming text editor. It’s a GTK text editor released under an open source license.

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Mobile App Development

Solar2D – cross-platform software development kit

November 10, 2023 Steve Emms Programming

Solar2D is a Lua based game engine with focus on ease of iterations and usage.

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XMPP

Metronome IM – lightweight XMPP server with advanced microblogging features

November 10, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

Metronome is a XMPP instant messaging server, based on the latest approved RFC standards.

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