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  • ntfy Self-Hosted Push Notification Server

    ntfy is an open-source HTTP-based pub-sub notification service that lets you send push notifications to phones and desktops via simple PUT or POST requests. Self-hostable with zero signup required, it provides a dead-simple API for alerting from scripts, CI pipelines, cron jobs, and IoT devices.

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  • Rallly Open-Source Group Scheduling and Meeting Poll Platform

    Rallly is an open-source scheduling and collaboration tool that makes organizing group meetings effortless. Create meeting polls to find the best date and time based on participant availability, replacing back-and-forth email chains with a simple voting interface.

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  • ExifTool Metadata Reader and Writer for Images and Files

    ExifTool by Phil Harvey is a comprehensive Perl-based CLI tool for reading, writing, and editing metadata in over 400 file types. It extracts EXIF, IPTC, XMP, GPS, and maker note data from images, videos, audio, PDFs, and documents, making it the industry standard for metadata forensics and batch processing.

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  • Caddy Automatic HTTPS Web Server and Reverse Proxy

    Caddy is a fast, extensible web server written in Go that provides automatic HTTPS via Let’s Encrypt and ZeroSSL. It supports HTTP/1.1, HTTP/2, and HTTP/3, features a simple Caddyfile configuration format, a powerful JSON API for dynamic config, and serves as a production-grade reverse proxy with zero external dependencies.

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  • Spleeter AI Audio Source Separation by Deezer

    Spleeter is Deezer’s open-source audio source separation library with pretrained models. It can split audio into 2, 4, or 5 stems (vocals, drums, bass, piano, accompaniment) and runs 100x faster than real-time on GPU, making it ideal for music production, remix, and audio analysis workflows.

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  • mkcert Zero-Config Local Development TLS Certificate Generator

    mkcert is a zero-configuration CLI tool by Filippo Valsorda that creates locally-trusted development certificates. It automatically installs a local CA in the system root store and generates TLS certificates for localhost, custom domains, and IP addresses without manual PKI management.

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  • Faust.js Headless WordPress Toolkit for Next.js

    Faust.js by WP Engine is a JavaScript framework and WordPress plugin that streamlines building headless WordPress sites with Next.js. It handles data fetching via WPGraphQL, authentication, content previews, and server-side rendering, providing a production-ready bridge between WordPress as a CMS and React-based frontends.

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  • textstat Python Readability Statistics Calculator

    textstat is a Python package that calculates readability statistics for text content, including Flesch Reading Ease, Gunning Fog Index, SMOG Index, Coleman-Liau Index, and Dale-Chall score. It provides quantitative readability metrics that content writers and SEO professionals use to optimize content for target audiences.

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  • theHarvester OSINT Email and Subdomain Intelligence Gatherer

    theHarvester is an open-source OSINT tool for gathering emails, subdomains, hosts, employee names, open ports, and banners from public sources. Used during reconnaissance in penetration testing and red team assessments, it queries search engines, PGP key servers, the Shodan API, and other data sources to map an organization’s external threat surface.

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  • retext Natural Language Processor with Unified Plugin Ecosystem

    retext is a natural language processor powered by plugins, part of the unified.js collective. It parses Latin-script text into an AST (nlcst), enabling programmatic text analysis and transformation through a rich plugin ecosystem for spell checking, readability analysis, typography fixes, and content quality enforcement.

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