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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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