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Development Tools

Lapis – web framework for Lua/MoonScript supporting OpenResty or http.server

October 28, 2023 Eilidih Parris Programming

Lapis is a framework for building web applications using MoonScript or Lua that runs inside of a customized version of Nginx called OpenResty.

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OpenResty – turns Nginx into a Full-Fledged Scriptable Web Platform

October 28, 2023 Eilidih Parris Programming

OpenResty is a full-fledged web application server. It bundles the standard Nginx core, 3rd-party Nginx modules, and external dependencies.

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Sailor – Lua MVC web framework

October 28, 2023 Eilidih Parris Programming

Sailor is a Lua MVC web framework. It is compatible with Apache with mod_lua or mod_pLua, Nginx with ngx_lua, Lwan, Lighttpd with mod_magnet.

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Mr. Rescue – arcade styled 2d action game

October 28, 2023 Steve Emms Games

Mr. Rescue is an arcade styled 2D action game centered around evacuating civilians from burning buildings.

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Luapress – simple and fast static site/blog generator

October 27, 2023 Eilidih Parris Web Apps

Luapress is yet another static site generator, written in Lua, with posts in Markdown.

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LuaWebGen – static website generator

October 27, 2023 Eilidih Parris Web Apps

LuaWebGen is a static website generator. Webpages are generated using HTML and Markdown templates.

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Tiling Window Managers

Notion – tiling, tabbed window manager

October 25, 2023 Steve Emms Desktop

Notion is a tiling, tabbed window manager for the X window system. The program is traditionally written to be very usable by mainly using the keyboard.

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Vis – Combining Modal Editing with Structural Regular Expressions

October 24, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Documents

Vis is a modern, legacy-free, simple yet efficient editor, combining the strengths of both vi(m) and sam. Free and open source software.

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NvChad – Neovim config

October 24, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Documents

NvChad is a neovim config aiming to provide a base configuration with very beautiful UI and blazing fast startup time.

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LunarVim – IDE layer for Neovim

October 24, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Documents

LunarVim is an IDE layer for Neovim. LunarVim ships with a sane default config for you to build upon. Free and open source software.

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Utility

ntopng – monitor traffic on a computer network

October 20, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

ntopng is a web-based network traffic monitoring application. It’s a passive network monitoring tool focused on flows and statistics.

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Anti-Spam Tools

Rspamd – fast, free and open-source spam filtering system

October 19, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

Rspamd is an advanced spam filtering system that allows evaluation of messages by a number of rules.

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Network Security

Nmap – Nmap Security Scanner

October 16, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Security

Nmap is a utility for network discovery, administration and security auditing. Nmap also offers flexible target and port specification.

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Best Free and Open Source Navigation Tools

z.lua – command line tool which helps you navigate faster by learning your habits

October 14, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

z.lua is a command line tool which helps you navigate faster by learning your habits. z.lua is free and open source software.

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Composing Music

Gregorio – Tools for Typesetting Gregorian Chant

September 17, 2023 Steve Emms Multimedia

Gregorio is a free and open-source scorewriter software particularly useful for Gregorian chant in square notation.

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Documentation

gema – general purpose macro processor

June 30, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

gema is a general purpose text processing utility based on the concept of pattern matching. It’s free and open source software.

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Programming Tutorials

Excellent Free Tutorials to Learn MoonScript

September 21, 2022 Erik Karlsson Programming, Tutorials

MoonScript is a fully-fledged dynamic scripting programmer friendly language that compiles into Lua, or it can be dynamically compiled and run using the moonloader.

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PDF

PoDoFo – parse PDF files and modify their contents into memory

October 20, 2020 Steve Emms Programming

PoDoFo is a library to work with the PDF file format. The name comes from the first letter of PDF (Portable Document Format).

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Programming Tutorials

Excellent Free Tutorials to Learn Lua

January 30, 2020 Erik Karlsson Programming, Tutorials

Lua is a lightweight, small, compact, and fast programming language designed as an embeddable scripting language. Here’s our recommended Lua tutorials.

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Programming Books

Best Free Books to Learn about Lua

May 20, 2019 Erik Karlsson Books, Programming

Lua is a lightweight, small, compact, and fast programming language designed as an embeddable scripting language. This article recommends free books to help you master programming in Lua. As the range of good free books is fairly limited, I close the article with a few carefully selected tutorials that are genuinely useful.

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