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Font Awesome
Get vector icons and social logos for your website or blog
Font Awesome was created in a successful Kickstarter and is an easy way for web developers to add icons and logos to their website. There is both a free version and a pro version for extra features and icons. You can support the developers by buying a custom FontAwesome T-Shirt! https://fontawesome.com/shirts -
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FineTune
FineTune, a macOS menu bar app to control volume for each app
FineTune is a macOS menu bar application that gives users fine-grained control over system audio by allowing them to adjust volume levels for individual applications independently, route audio streams to different output devices, and apply personalized equalizer settings. It fills a gap in macOS audio control by providing more advanced routing and audio shaping capabilities than the default system controls, making it useful for power users, audio professionals, and anyone needing precise management of their sound environment. Through a clean, minimal interface accessible from the menu bar, FineTune lets users isolate and balance application volumes, assign specific outputs (like headphones versus speakers), and tweak equalization to enhance or tailor audio based on content or personal preference. Its integration into the OS workflow means that these adjustments persist across sessions and respect the user’s choices without requiring constant interaction with deeper system settings. -
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MicroG RE
GmsCore fork for ReVanced with Material You, features and improvements
GmsCore fork designed for ReVanced with Material You design, along with some improvements and features. -
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Penpot
The first open source design and prototyping tool
Penpot is the first open-source design and prototyping platform for product teams that allows true collaboration between designers and developers. What will designers and developers find in Penpot? - Powerful UI tool for the team. All stakeholders can access a complete set of interactive prototypes, design systems, components, feedback loop and pixel designs. - Design and development collaborate for real. Penpot brings both code-ready design capabilities and the familiarity of developer tools to the same workspace. - Open Standards for the design work. This means zero vendor lock-in and high interoperability. - Unique Flex Layout that allows you to create flexible designs that can adapt automatically -
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QuickPic Gallery Mod
QuickPic Gallery Mod
QuickPic Gallery Mod. -
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WhiteSur GTK Theme
MacOS like theme for all gtk based desktops
WhiteSur-gtk-theme brings a macOS Big Sur–inspired look to Linux desktops by providing a polished GTK theme with light and dark variants, rounded shapes, and refined translucency. It includes assets and installer scripts to apply the theme across GTK applications and desktop shells that support GTK theming, aiming for a cohesive, high-contrast interface. The project pays attention to details like window controls, titlebars, selection states, and widget hover effects so apps feel consistent from toolkits to system settings. Configuration options typically allow tweaking accents and choosing variants that match different desktop environments and icon sets. Documentation guides users through installing prerequisites, applying the theme, and resolving common edge cases across distributions. For Linux users who prefer Apple’s visual style but want open platforms, WhiteSur offers a maintained, community-driven path to a modern, visually unified desktop. -
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Thaw
Menu bar manager for macOS 26
Thaw is a macOS menu bar management app focused on hiding, showing, and organizing menu bar items, with the broader goal of being a versatile customization toolkit rather than a single-purpose hider. It is a fork of the Ice project created to keep the concept actively maintained, fix bugs, and stay compatible with the latest macOS releases, especially newer versions where menu bar behavior and APIs have changed. At its core, Thaw provides multiple ways to reveal hidden items (hover, click empty space, scroll or swipe) and can automatically rehide items to keep the menu bar clean without constant manual toggling. It also supports a dedicated “always-hidden” section, drag-and-drop arrangement of items, and options to display hidden items in a separate bar, which can be particularly useful on MacBooks with notches. -
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erd
Translates a plain text description of a relational database schema
erd is a Haskell-based command-line tool that transforms a plain-text description of a relational database schema into a graphical entity-relationship diagram using common ER conventions. This utility takes a plain text description of entities, their attributes and the relationships between entities and produces a visual diagram modeling the description. The visualization is produced by using Dot with GraphViz. There are limited options for specifying color and font information. Also, erd can output graphs in a variety of formats, including but not limited to: pdf, svg, eps, png, jpg, plain text and dot. In case one wishes to have a statically linked erd as a result, this is possible to have by executing build-static_by-nix.sh: which requires the nix package manager to be installed on the building machine. NixOS itself is not a requirement. -
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DB Designer Fork is a fork of the fabFORCE DBDesigner 4. It integrates entity relationship design,front-end (you can run queries) and SQL exporting.DB Designer Fork generates SQL scripts for Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, FireBird, SQLite and PostgreSQL.
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SkyWater PDK
Open source process design kit for usage with SkyWater Technology
The SkyWater PDK is the first broadly available open-source process design kit for a commercial-grade CMOS node, enabling researchers, startups, and students to design real ASICs without proprietary NDAs. It provides the essential artifacts for digital and analog flows: SPICE models, DRC/LVS rules, extraction decks, and technology files for open tools like Magic and KLayout. Standard-cell libraries and IO pads are included so digital designers can use open synthesis and place-and-route to reach a manufacturable GDS. Because the PDK is open, it becomes a common target for community reference designs, open tapeouts, and teaching curricula. Documentation and example flows show how to assemble complete toolchains, from RTL to sign-off, using open EDA components. The project effectively lowers the barrier to custom silicon, catalyzing an ecosystem around an accessible 130-nm process. -
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WhiteSur Icon Theme
MacOS Big Sur style icon theme for linux desktops
WhiteSur-icon-theme is a Linux icon theme that faithfully recreates the macOS Big Sur icon set’s look and feel, giving your desktop a sleek, polished visual identity inspired by Apple’s design language. It includes a broad selection of icons for many popular applications, utilities, and system features, ensuring most graphical elements on your desktop adopt the unified appearance. The theme is designed to integrate seamlessly with GTK- and icon-themed desktops, helping users achieve a consistent aesthetic across panels, launchers, and app menus. Installation scripts provide easy methods to deploy the icons into your system or local user directory, and options let you tweak the icon style or destination. Because it mimics a well-known visual design, it’s particularly popular among users who want to bring macOS-like polish to their Linux desktops without sacrificing performance. -
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Pinta
Simple GTK# Paint Program
Pinta is a free, open-source program for drawing and image editing. Its goal is to provide users with a simple yet powerful way to draw and manipulate images on Linux, Mac, Windows, and BSD. Use easy drawing tools to draw freehand, lines, rectangles, ellipses, and more. Pinta includes over 35 adjustments and effects for tweaking your images. Use Pinta in your language. Pinta is at least partially translated into over 55 languages. Don't be afraid to experiment, Pinta tracks your full history so you can always undo. Use layers to help separate and group elements of your image for easy editing. Like docked windows? No problem. Floating windows? No problem. You can even mix and match. Original Pinta code is licensed under the MIT License, see license-mit.txt for the MIT License. Code from Paint.Net 3.36 is used under the MIT License and retains the original headers on source files. -
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Tela Icon Theme
A flat colorful Design icon theme
Tela Icon Theme is a flat, colorful icon theme for Linux desktops that brings a bright, vibrant, and cohesive set of icons to your system’s application launchers, file managers, and UI elements. The theme focuses on clarity and consistency, using simplified shapes and a harmonious color palette to make desktop visuals more appealing and user-friendly. It includes a wide range of scalable icons for applications, system components, and common actions, ensuring coverage across many use cases. Installation scripts let users install, customize, or remove the theme easily and support multiple color variants that match different aesthetic preferences. Because it’s distributed under the GPL, Tela-icon-theme is free to use, modify, and share, fostering an open-source community around visual customization. Its popularity in the Linux theming community speaks to its balance of aesthetics and practicality, offering a refreshing alternative to default icon sets. -
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GRUB2 THEMES
Modern Design theme for Grub2
GRUB2 THEMES is an open-source collection of modern, visually appealing themes for the GRUB2 bootloader that enhance the graphical interface users see during system boot on Linux machines. Instead of the plain default GRUB menus, this project offers a set of sleek theme variants with custom backgrounds, icons, layouts, and resolutions that bring a more polished aesthetic to the early boot experience. Installation scripts provided in the repository automate applying themes to a system’s GRUB configuration, including options for different resolutions and screen sizes, and users can add custom backgrounds or tweak configurations. The repository is licensed under GPL-3.0 and has an active user base, making it one of the more popular sources for bootloader theming. It includes assets, configurations, and helper tools to simplify adoption, and supports variant customization so users can tailor the look to their preferences. -
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Materialize
Materialize, a web framework based on Material Design
Materialize, a CSS Framework based on Material Design. Using VanillaJS and as less dependencies as possible to keep it fast and simple. We use TypeScript since it builds upon JavaScript and enhances the type- and code safety. You don't have to learn or integrate any new or crappy stuff. The goal here is to stick to the roots. Just copy and paste from the documentation and you are good to go. Most of the Features work event without JavaScript. Components should be useable by mobile devices and easily accessible by keyboard too. Try it out. User-centric approach with established design principles mainly from Google's Material guidelines. Our Components should work on nearly every device with a monitor. User-centric approach with many members all around the world, which helps bring Materialize forward and improve usability for everyone on the web. You can be a part too. -
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Orchis theme
Material Design theme for GNOME/GTK based desktop environments
Orchis-theme is a polished, Material Design–inspired GTK theme for GNOME and other GTK-based Linux desktop environments that gives your system a modern, unified visual style with soft gradients, consistent icons, and refined widget styling. It’s built to bring a high-quality aesthetic to applications, menus, dialogs, and control elements, making desktops feel more cohesive and attractive compared to default themes. The theme supports multiple color variants and sizing options, letting users tailor the look and feel to their personal preferences and desktop layouts. Installation scripts make it easy to apply the theme across supported environments and also handle compatibility with different GTK versions. Because it follows Material Design principles, Orchis strikes a balance between simplicity and visual depth, giving interfaces a fresh and contemporary appeal. -
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Vieb
Vim bindings for the web by design
Free, open source, fast and secure. Local first adblocking, auto-complete, AMP protection, custom redirects and more, all without web requests. Privacy with strict permission system, navigator overrides, custom useragent, custom WebRTC policy and more. Accessible with custom themes, full interface & fontsize scaling, page zooming, spellcheck and mouse support. Security settings with permissions, cache usage, cookie management, (auto-)download settings and more. Window splitting with buffer, split, Vexplore and Ctrl-w bindings, for multi-window browsing. Map commands for completely custom keyboard sequences, keystrokes, commands and actions. Viebrc config file for all custom/Vim/Vieb commands to configure settings permanently. Set command for runtime setting configuration exactly like Vim. Vim-compatible options: showcmd, timeout, colorscheme, maxmapdepth, spelllang, splitright, smartcase etc. Container tabs with colored grouping, auto-clearing. -
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System Design Primer
Learn how to design large-scale systems
System Design Primer is a curated, open source collection of resources that helps engineers learn how to design large-scale systems. The project is structured as a comprehensive guide covering core system design concepts, trade-offs, and patterns necessary for building scalable, reliable, and maintainable systems. It offers both theoretical foundations—such as scalability principles, the CAP theorem, and consistency models—and practical exercises, including real-world system design interview questions with sample solutions, diagrams, and code. The repository also contains study guides for short, medium, and long interview timelines, allowing learners to focus on both breadth and depth depending on their preparation needs. In addition, it includes flashcard decks designed to reinforce learning through spaced repetition, making it easier to retain key system design knowledge. -
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iFrame Resizer
Keep same and cross domain iFrames sized to their content
Size cross domain iFrames to content with support for window/content resizing, and multiple iFrames. This library enables the automatic resizing of the height and width of both same and cross domain iFrames to fit their contained content. It provides a range of features to address the most common issues with using iFrames. Provides a range of page size calculation methods to support complex CSS layouts. Detects changes to the DOM that can cause the page to resize using MutationObserver. Detects events that can cause the page to resize (window resize, CSS animation and transition, orientation change and mouse events). Fixes in page links in iFrame and supports links between the iFrame and parent page. Works with ViewerJS to support PDF and ODF documents. The package contains two minified JavaScript files in the js folder. The first (iframeResizer.min.js) is for the page hosting the iFrames. -
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Beer CSS
Build material design interfaces in record time
Build material design interfaces in record time without stress for devs. -
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Markdown
WeChat Markdown Editor
WeChat Markdown Editor | A highly concise WeChat Markdown editor, that supports Markdown syntax, color palette selection, multi-image upload, one-click document download, custom CSS style, one-click reset, and other features. Markdown documents are automatically rendered into WeChat graphics and text in real-time, so you no longer have to worry about the typesetting of WeChat articles! As long as you know the basic Markdown syntax, you can make a simple and beautiful WeChat graphic. Chrome browser is recommended for best results. In addition, for domestic (China) friends, accessing Gitee Pages will be relatively faster. The existing open-source WeChat Markdown editor has complicated styles and does not meet my personal aesthetic needs. When I use them for article typesetting, I often have to make some changes myself, which is time-consuming and labor-intensive, so I did secondary development. -
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PixiJS
The HTML5 Creation Engine
PixiJS is a fast and lightweight 2D rendering library that lets you create rich, interactive graphics, cross platform applications, and HTML5 games even without prior knowledge of WebGL. It’s a fantastic tool for creating rich, interactive content and with built-in cross platform compatibility and graceful degradation, there’s less work for you and more space for fun and creativity! PixiJS works across all devices and is incredibly fast. If you want to create exceptional experiences without having to deal with dense, low level code, browser inconsistencies, WebGL API or device compatibility, PixiJS is for you! See some great examples and creations made with PixiJS in the official website: https://www.pixijs.com/ -
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nightTab
A neutral new tab page accented with a chosen colour
A neutral new tab page accented with a chosen color. Customize the layout, style, background and bookmarks with nightTab. Make the browser start page dark (or light, or anything in between). Do not access user information. This means nightTab will not request browser permissions. Aim to make everything on the user interface, within reason, customizable. Aim to make the user experience easy while supporting the above. Keep nightTab open source. Sharing the look and feel of one Bookmark to another can be achieved when editing a single Bookmark. The Bookmark edit modal has three options to copy settings to other Bookmarks. These checkboxes can be found at the bottom of the Visual & Name, Layout and Theme tab. Development and testing is only conducted on Chrome and Firefox. The performance and reliability of nightTab on other browsers is out of the scope of this project. -
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GitHub themes for Neovim
Github's Neovim themes
Github's Neovim themes. GitHub Theme's palettes and specs can be extended with your own values. This is useful for users who want to distinguish a spec value being used for multiple group definitions. GitHub Theme is a highly customizable and configurable color scheme. This does however come at the cost of complexity and execution time. GitHub Theme pre-computes the result of your configuration and saves the lua bytecode in a cache to be used on the next load. This significantly speeds up Github theme's execution time. Changes to your configuration will be re-computed and cached automatically. -
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Gojekyll
A fast Go implementation of the Jekyll blogging engine
Gojekyll is a partially-compatible clone of the Jekyll static site generator, written in the Go programming language. It provides build and serve commands, with directory watch and live reload.