1Password
AgileBits Inc. (1Password) · Secrets management
Password and secrets manager for individuals, families and businesses with end-to-end encrypted vaults, passkeys, an SSH agent and a developer CLI
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AgileBits Inc. (1Password) · Secrets management
Password and secrets manager for individuals, families and businesses with end-to-end encrypted vaults, passkeys, an SSH agent and a developer CLI
Anthropic · Coding agents & AI IDEs
Anthropic's agentic coding tool that reads a codebase, edits files and runs commands from the terminal, IDEs, a desktop app, the web and CI, with MCP, hooks, skills and subagents
Docker, Inc. · Containers & virtualization
Container platform combining the Docker Engine runtime, the Compose and Build tooling, Docker Desktop for macOS and Windows, and the Docker Hub registry
Homebrew maintainers · macOS system utilities
Community-maintained package manager for macOS and Linux that installs command-line tools (formulae) and desktop apps (casks) from the terminal
Apple Inc. · macOS automation
macOS's built-in service manager that starts, supervises and schedules daemons and per-user agents from property-list job definitions
Element Labs, Inc. · Local LLM inference & serving
Proprietary desktop app for discovering, downloading and running local LLMs with llama.cpp and MLX engines, a chat UI, an OpenAI-compatible server, CLI, SDKs and a headless daemon
Apple Inc. · Apple Silicon ML & MLX
Apple's open-source array framework for machine learning on Apple Silicon, with NumPy-like Python, C++ and Swift APIs and unified CPU/GPU memory
Apple Inc. · Apple Silicon ML & MLX
Python package and CLI for running, serving, quantizing and fine-tuning large language models on Apple Silicon with MLX
Dynalist Inc. (Obsidian) · Personal knowledge management
Local-first Markdown note-taking app with bidirectional links, graph view and a large community plugin ecosystem; optional paid Sync and Publish
Ollama · Local LLM inference & serving
Open-source runtime and model manager for running open-weight LLMs locally on macOS, Windows and Linux, with a REST API, OpenAI- and Anthropic-compatible endpoints and optional cloud models
Keymetrics (Unitech) · Infrastructure & provisioning
Production process manager for Node.js and other long-running programs with cluster mode, log handling, restart policies and boot-time startup scripts
restic project (Alexander Neumann and contributors) · Backup & recovery
Encrypted, deduplicating backup program written in Go that stores snapshots in local, SFTP, S3-compatible and many cloud backends
SQLite Consortium / Hipp, Wyrick & Company · Relational databases
Public-domain embedded SQL database engine that stores a whole database in one file and ships inside most operating systems and browsers
Apple Inc. · Swift & SwiftUI development
Apple's compiled, memory-safe, multi-paradigm language for Apple platforms, Linux, Windows and embedded targets, developed in the open at swift.org
Tailscale Inc. · Tunneling & remote access
WireGuard-based mesh overlay network with a hosted coordination service, identity-provider login, access policies, MagicDNS and features such as Tailscale SSH, Serve and Funnel
TeX Users Group (TUG) · LaTeX & typesetting
The comprehensive free TeX distribution for Linux, macOS and Windows, released yearly with the tlmgr package manager and all major engines, packages and fonts
Microsoft · IDEs & editors
Free, extensible code editor from Microsoft with a large extension marketplace, integrated terminal, debugging, remote development and built-in AI assistance
WireGuard project (Jason A. Donenfeld) · Tunneling & remote access
Minimal, high-speed VPN protocol and implementation built on modern cryptography, included in the Linux kernel and available on macOS, iOS, Windows, Android and BSD
Apple Inc. · Swift & SwiftUI development
Apple's integrated development environment and toolchain for building, debugging, testing and submitting apps for iOS, macOS and other Apple platforms
Corporation for Digital Scholarship · Citation management
Free, open-source reference manager with browser connectors, word-processor plugins, a PDF reader, group libraries and optional paid file storage
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