This worth a look. I’ve been using it for side project lately and it’s pretty nice. It’s a fork of zed and overall has been more stable for me.
" A code editor for humanoid apes and grumpy toads". Supports windows, mac, and Linux.
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I’m assuming most people already know about this, but Brave origin is completely free for Linux users. But if you wanna pay for it, it’s up to you.
Brave is completely open source ,so I said just to mention it in case someone wants Brave without all the extra crap they add in the regular version
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I cant remember who was asking for this. I said to post it here for any future use cases
GPU screen recorder. An alternative to OBS that seems very nice. Haven’t had the chance to try it out just yet.
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I recenly found Futo Notes, a self hosted notes app so you can actually back up your notes and keep them out of google.
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Zed deserves a mention here.
Is it vim? Is it emacs??? Noooo. Its a rust written editor with the same bones as Visual Code, only no electron so it is lightning fast.
With native AI assistant and a pretty damn good vim setup.
If you are still on code or emacs in 2026… Give this one a try.
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And these are for the people who are sceptical of them
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This fork of the github disktop client is great. It has some key things that are strangely missing from githubs official client such as the ability to stash a single change (things that users have been asking for years). The official client only lets you stash all changes, not single files.
It also supports multiple stashes! And so many other little things I am discovering the more I use it.
Doesn’t just work for github. I use it for azure repo’s also, turn on use Git Credential Manager in options.
I will never use the official client again, it’s far too behind this fork.
Feel free to remove if the topic / software is too niche..
There just happens to be a plethora of good astrophotography / image capture / image editing FOSS out there.
Astro image processing application
Siril - https://siril.org amazing application super powerful (linux mac windows) - is hot on the heels of the 300euro PixInsight astro image editing application.
waveSharp - planetary image sharpening Long to avoid confusion with the information.
GraXpert - https://graxpert.com/ gradient removal / deep sky sharpening.
ImPPG - solar and planetary image sharpening program - ImPPG (Image Post-Processor)
Image acquisition
Kstars with EKOS integrated module https://kstars.kde.org/ (linux, mac,windows, linux-arm)
NINA https://nighttime-imaging.eu/ first class image acquisition software (windows)
PHD2 - (Push Here Dummy 2) /open phd guiding - keep your telescope mount from straying too far on long exposures by locking onto a guidestar (linux, mac, windows).
some others - ASTAP (astrometric and other tools), RegiStax6, Deep Sky Stacker, starnet++ (create starless images), Luckystackworker (planetary image stacking).
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That’s an awesome list of astro software. Thanks!
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a few open sources apps i have learnt about and have been using.
GitHub - CollaboraOnline/online: Issue tracker only. Active development is on Gerrit at https://gerrit.collaboraoffice.com/. · GitHub : office suite that i see a lot more visually appealing than open office and libre office
proofreading software that does not try to charge every two seconds .
toolbox for viewing flatpak info, managing user data, and batch managing installed flatpaks
https://flathub.org/en/apps/it.mijorus.gearlever : utility to manage AppImages
it’s now on linux yay
https://blip.net/download/linux
I’ve been looking for a long time for a good solution to handle photos at work. It’s a small consulting engineering firm, and we’ve collected over 500,000 digital photos with about 13,000 photo sets across 2600 projects,. I wanted something focused on photos only with limited or no need for modification of the files themselves. ResourceSpace fits the bill nicely. It’s open source, highly configurable, and fast. The initial import took quite a while and we still need to finalize the workflow for adding new photos but the feedback on using it (25 users) has been overwhelmingly positive. It also works as a document management system for other types of files (PDF, Office, etc) but we will be using it just for photos and video.
TuxGuitar,
https://www.tuxguitar.app/
for anyone stuck on a Windows machine that’s been using GuitarPro5, this piece of software works for that too!
I actually found this out today.
I managed to get the .deb package/file working with the classic:
sudo apt --fix-broken installOpensnitch. GitHub - evilsocket/opensnitch: OpenSnitch is a GNU/Linux interactive application firewall inspired by Little Snitch. · GitHub Linux only
I’m not sure if anyone remembers ZoneAlarm from back in the day but basically it notifies you whenever something on your machine wants to access the network/Internet and you can choose to allow it deny it permanently or temporarily.
If you’re paranoid about cybersec ( and trust me you’re not paranoid enough) it’s a no brainer. I didn’t realize vscodium was pulling things from githubuserconent.com … Why? Stop it. Not anymore it’s not. Claude code CLI trying to talk to datadog? No thank you. Why is SSH trying to reply to this random IP? Oh I left my port open and people are brute force my SSH. Silly me. It’s very handy to discover what the programs on your machine are actually talking to.
I recently ported the frontend to go using Claude and I like it a lot better but it’s still got some minor visual kinks to work out and I’ve never reviewed the code so not sure if it should be included GitHub - penguinpowernz/gosnitch: OpenSnitch UI client in Golang using FyneUI · GitHub
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Definitely bookmarking this one. I’ve already found a couple of tools here I hadn’t heard of before. RustDesk caught my eye. The free community servers can feel a little sluggish sometimes, so that’s one thing I’d keep in mind if you plan to use it regularly.