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ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh

🙃 A delightful community-driven (with 2,500+ contributors) framework for managing your zsh configuration. Includes 300+ optional plugins (rails, git, macOS, hub, docker, homebrew, node, php, python, etc), 140+ themes to spice up your morning, and an auto-update tool that makes it easy to keep up with the latest updates from the community.

Stack

Shell pip

GitHub topics

#cli #cli-app #oh-my-zsh #oh-my-zsh-plugin #oh-my-zsh-theme #ohmyzsh

Updated: 2026-09-11
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2009-08-28
History: 33 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 333 open

189,705

stars

Forks: 26,573
Commits: 7,919 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

jlevy/the-art-of-command-line

Master the command line, in one page

GitHub topics

#bash #documentation #linux #macos #unix #windows

Updated: 2024-06-25
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2015-05-20
History: 35 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 256 open

162,344

stars

Forks: 14,827
Commits: 1,218 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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excalidraw/excalidraw

Virtual whiteboard for sketching hand-drawn like diagrams

AI dev

Stack

TypeScript Next.js React Vite npm Yarn

GitHub topics

#canvas #collaboration #diagrams #drawing #hacktoberfest #productivity

Updated: 2026-10-15
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2020-01-02
History: 52 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 3,325 open

134,010

stars

Forks: 15,704
Commits: 4,127 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +385 +0.3%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: +6 +0.1%

Website GitHub

rustdesk/rustdesk

An open-source remote desktop application designed for self-hosting, as an alternative to TeamViewer.

AI dev

Stack

Rust Android Flutter Shelf Cargo CMake CocoaPods

GitHub topics

#android #anydesk #dart #flatpak #flutter #flutter-apps

Updated: 2026-10-16
Lists: 7 list mentions
First commit: 2020-09-28
History: 20 history points
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: 185 open

126,047

stars

Forks: 19,768
Commits: 11,546 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +598 +0.5%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: +25 +0.2%

Website GitHub

neovim/neovim

Vim-fork focused on extensibility and usability

AI dev

Stack

Vim Script CMake

GitHub topics

#api #c #lua #neovim #nvim #text-editor

Updated: 2026-10-17
Lists: 5 list mentions
First commit: 2014-01-31
History: 19 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 1,975 open

103,016

stars

Forks: 7,191
Commits: 38,482 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +38 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: +80 +0.2%

Website GitHub

nvbn/thefuck

Magnificent app which corrects your previous console command.

Stack

Python pytest pip

GitHub topics

#python #shell

Updated: 2024-07-19
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2015-04-08
History: 11 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 461 open

97,880

stars

Forks: 3,962
Commits: 1,651 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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Stirling-Tools/Stirling-PDF

#1 PDF Application on GitHub that lets you edit PDFs on any device anywhere

AI dev

Stack

Java FastAPI pytest React Spring Boot Cargo Gradle npm

GitHub topics

#docker #hacktoberfest #java #pdf #pdf-converter #pdf-editor

Updated: 2026-09-18
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2023-01-27
History: 10 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 625 open

92,525

stars

Forks: 8,892
Commits: 6,135 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

localsend/localsend

An open-source cross-platform alternative to AirDrop

AI dev

Stack

Dart Android Axum Flutter Shelf Cargo CMake CocoaPods

GitHub topics

#dart #file-sharing #flutter #flutter-apps

Updated: 2026-09-14
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2022-12-16
History: 9 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 1,122 open

91,714

stars

Forks: 5,118
Commits: 2,129 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

zed-industries/zed

Code at the speed of thought – Zed is a high-performance, multiplayer code editor from the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter.

AI dev

Stack

Rust Axum Cargo

GitHub topics

#gpui #rust-lang #text-editor #zed

Updated: 2026-10-01
Lists: 6 list mentions
First commit: 2021-02-20
History: 10 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 3,182 open

91,138

stars

Forks: 10,860
Commits: 40,212 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

AppFlowy-IO/AppFlowy

Bring projects, wikis, and teams together with AI. AppFlowy is the AI collaborative workspace where you achieve more without losing control of your data. The leading open source Notion alternative.

Stack

Dart Android Axum Flutter Shelf Cargo CMake CocoaPods

GitHub topics

#blog #confluence-alternative #content-management #content-services #documentation #flutter

Updated: 2026-10-06
Lists: 6 list mentions
First commit: 2021-06-16
History: 13 history points
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: 1,034 open

77,167

stars

Forks: 6,051
Commits: 7,210 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

toeverything/AFFiNE

There can be more than Notion and Miro. AFFiNE(pronounced [ə‘fain]) is a next-gen knowledge base that brings planning, sorting and creating all together. Privacy first, open-source, customizable and ready to use.

AI dev

Stack

TypeScript Electron Express NestJS React Cargo npm Yarn

GitHub topics

#app #crdt #editor #electron #knowledge-base #markdown

Updated: 2026-10-12
Lists: 7 list mentions
First commit: 2022-07-22
History: 26 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 774 open

73,579

stars

Forks: 5,361
Commits: 11,533 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +206 +0.3%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: +2 0.0%

Website GitHub

dani-garcia/vaultwarden

Unofficial Bitwarden compatible server written in Rust, formerly known as bitwarden_rs

Stack

Rust Express Rocket Cargo npm

GitHub topics

#bitwarden #bitwarden-rs #docker #rocket #rust #vaultwarden

Updated: 2026-10-16
Lists: 5 list mentions
First commit: 2018-02-10
History: 18 history points
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: 97 open

69,187

stars

Forks: 3,334
Commits: 3,120 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +367 +0.5%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: +1 0.0%

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BurntSushi/ripgrep

ripgrep recursively searches directories for a regex pattern while respecting your gitignore

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#cli #command-line #command-line-tool #gitignore #grep #recursively-search

Updated: 2026-08-04
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2016-02-27
History: 10 history points
License: Unlicense
Issues: 203 open

68,582

stars

Forks: 3,513
Commits: 2,287 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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gorhill/uBlock

uBlock Origin - An efficient blocker for Chromium and Firefox. Fast and lean.

Stack

JavaScript npm

GitHub topics

#blocker #browser-extension #chromium #firefox #javascript #ublock

Updated: 2026-09-09
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2014-06-23
History: 7 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 15 open

67,675

stars

Forks: 4,335
Commits: 14,263 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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LadybirdBrowser/ladybird

Truly independent web browser

Stack

C++ Qt Cargo CMake PEP 517

GitHub topics

#browser #browser-engine

Updated: 2026-10-17
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-10-10
History: 137 history points
License: BSD-2-Clause
Issues: 583 open

66,546

stars

Forks: 3,164
Commits: 88,467 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +70 +0.1%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: +857 +1.0%

Website GitHub

alacritty/alacritty

A cross-platform, OpenGL terminal emulator.

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#bsd #gpu #linux #macos #opengl #rust

Updated: 2026-10-05
Lists: 7 list mentions
First commit: 2016-02-21
History: 17 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 341 open

65,919

stars

Forks: 3,635
Commits: 2,494 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

usememos/memos

A personal timeline for quick notes. Write short memos, find them later by search, tag, or date. Open source and self-hosted.

AI dev

Stack

Go Cobra gRPC Go React React Native Go modules pnpm

GitHub topics

#docker #foss #go #markdown #memo #microblog

Updated: 2026-10-16
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2021-12-08
History: 17 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 90 open

63,857

stars

Forks: 4,867
Commits: 4,884 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +173 +0.3%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: +23 +0.5%

Website GitHub

tldr-pages/tldr

Collaborative cheatsheets for console commands 📚.

AI dev

Stack

Markdown npm pip

GitHub topics

#android #bsd #cheatsheet #cheatsheets #cli #command-line

Updated: 2026-09-12
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2013-12-08
History: 45 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 279 open

63,682

stars

Forks: 5,402
Commits: 23,689 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

ChrisTitusTech/winutil

Chris Titus Tech's Windows Utility - Install Programs, Tweaks, Fixes, and Updates

AI dev

Stack

PowerShell Astro Vite npm uv

Updated: 2026-09-04
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2022-04-28
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 24 open

62,107

stars

Forks: 3,631
Commits: 1,683 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

ghostty-org/ghostty

👻 Ghostty is a fast, feature-rich, and cross-platform terminal emulator that uses platform-native UI and GPU acceleration.

AI dev

Stack

Zig CMake Swift Package Manager

Updated: 2026-10-04
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2022-03-29
History: 11 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 257 open

61,836

stars

Forks: 3,565
Commits: 18,075 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

penpot/penpot

Penpot: The open-source design platform for Product teams that need scalable collaboration.

AI dev

Stack

Clojure Angular Express React Tailwind CSS Cargo pnpm

GitHub topics

#clojure #clojurescript #design #prototyping #ui #ux-design

Updated: 2026-10-16
Lists: 5 list mentions
First commit: 2015-06-18
History: 143 history points
License: MPL-2.0
Issues: 851 open

61,242

stars

Forks: 4,235
Commits: 24,267 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +352 +0.6%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: +71 +0.3%

Website GitHub

sharkdp/bat

A cat(1) clone with wings.

Stack

Rust Cargo CMake .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#cli #command-line #git #hacktoberfest #rust #syntax-highlighting

Updated: 2026-09-22
Lists: 5 list mentions
First commit: 2018-04-21
History: 9 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 523 open

60,592

stars

Forks: 2,818
Commits: 4,031 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

starship/starship

☄🌌️ The minimal, blazing-fast, and infinitely customizable prompt for any shell!

Stack

Rust Vite Vue Cargo npm

GitHub topics

#bash #fish #fish-prompt #fish-theme #oh-my-zsh #powershell

Updated: 2026-10-13
Lists: 5 list mentions
First commit: 2019-04-02
History: 9 history points
License: ISC
Issues: 1,059 open

60,251

stars

Forks: 2,700
Commits: 4,438 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

rclone/rclone

"rsync for cloud storage" - Google Drive, S3, Dropbox, Backblaze B2, One Drive, Swift, Hubic, Wasabi, Google Cloud Storage, Azure Blob, Azure Files, Yandex Files

AI dev

Stack

Go Cobra Gin gRPC Go Go modules

GitHub topics

#azure-blob #azure-blob-storage #azure-files #backblaze-b2 #cloud-storage #dropbox

Updated: 2026-09-18
Lists: 5 list mentions
First commit: 2012-11-18
History: 12 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 1,276 open

59,830

stars

Forks: 5,407
Commits: 10,366 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

laurent22/joplin

Joplin - the privacy-focused note taking app with sync capabilities for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and iOS.

AI dev

Stack

TypeScript Android Electron Expo Express Bundler Cargo CMake

GitHub topics

#android #dropbox #electron #enex-files #evernote #javascript

Updated: 2026-09-11
Lists: 8 list mentions
First commit: 2016-10-19
History: 44 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 642 open

56,337

stars

Forks: 6,278
Commits: 15,784 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

agalwood/Motrix

A full-featured download manager.

AI dev

Stack

TypeScript Electron Express Fastify React Cargo npm pnpm

GitHub topics

#aria2 #bt #download #electron #linux #mac

Updated: 2026-09-23
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2018-12-19
History: 14 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 138 open

55,781

stars

Forks: 5,041
Commits: 1,367 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

upscayl/upscayl

🆙 Upscayl - #1 Free and Open Source AI Image Upscaler for Linux, MacOS and Windows.

Stack

TypeScript Electron Next.js React Tailwind CSS .NET SDK npm

GitHub topics

#ai #electron #esrgan #gigapixel #gigapixel-images #image

Updated: 2026-09-15
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2022-08-02
History: 9 history points
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: 43 open

49,930

stars

Forks: 2,531
Commits: 1,114 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

tmux/tmux

tmux source code

AI dev

Stack

Updated: 2026-10-10
Lists: 5 list mentions
First commit: 2007-07-09
History: 10 history points
License: ISC
Issues: 36 open

49,888

stars

Forks: 2,941
Commits: 12,336 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

GitHub

siyuan-note/siyuan

An open-source, privacy-first, self-hosted knowledge workspace where humans and AI agents work together 开源、隐私优先、自托管的知识工作空间，让人与智能体在此协作

AI dev

Stack

TypeScript Cobra Electron Gin Go modules pnpm

GitHub topics

#agentic-ai #ai-agent #knowledge-base #local-first #markdown #mcp

Updated: 2026-10-15
Lists: 5 list mentions
First commit: 2020-08-30
History: 8 history points
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: 15 open

46,771

stars

Forks: 3,065
Commits: 28,933 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

helix-editor/helix

A post-modern modal text editor.

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#kakoune #rust #text-editor #vim

Updated: 2026-09-22
Lists: 6 list mentions
First commit: 2020-05-20
History: 11 history points
License: MPL-2.0
Issues: 1,682 open

46,328

stars

Forks: 3,775
Commits: 7,689 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

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