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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
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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
Apple Inc. · macOS automation
Apple's English-like scripting language that drives scriptable macOS applications through Apple events, run from Script Editor, osascript or other automation tools
Bruno Software · API development & tooling
Open-source, offline-first API client that stores collections as plain-text .bru files in a Git repository, with a CLI for running requests in CI
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
Carsten Blüm (BlueM) · macOS automation
Small open-source macOS command-line tool that emulates mouse clicks, drags, movements, key presses and typing for scripted GUI control
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
Exo Labs · Distributed & parallel computing
Open-source software that pools several Apple Silicon Macs (and Linux hosts) into one local inference cluster, sharding large models across devices with MLX
GNU Project (Ole Tange) · Distributed & parallel computing
Shell tool that runs commands in parallel over input lines on one or several machines, as a drop-in alternative to xargs and shell loops
gretl developers (Allin Cottrell, Riccardo Lucchetti) · Econometrics & causal inference
Free, GPL-licensed cross-platform econometrics program with a GUI, the hansl scripting language and estimators for time series, panels and limited dependent variables
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
pqrs.org (Takayama Fumihiko) · macOS system utilities
Free, public-domain keyboard customizer for macOS that remaps keys and defines complex modifications through JSON rules at the driver level
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
MathWorks · Mathematical & statistical computing
MathWorks' commercial numeric computing environment and language for engineers and scientists, with toolboxes, Simulink integration, apps and MATLAB Online
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
Apple Inc. · Apple Silicon ML & MLX
Port of OpenAI's Whisper speech-recognition models to MLX, offering a CLI and Python API for local transcription on Apple Silicon
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
OpenBSD Project · Tunneling & remote access
Reference implementation of the SSH protocol from the OpenBSD project: remote shell, file transfer, port forwarding, key agent and certificate authority tooling
OrbStack (Orbital Labs) · Containers & virtualization
macOS application that runs Docker containers, Linux machines and a local Kubernetes cluster as a lighter replacement for Docker Desktop
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
Postman, Inc. · API development & tooling
Commercial API platform for designing, testing, documenting and monitoring HTTP and other APIs through a desktop and web client with cloud-synced workspaces
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
StataCorp LLC · Mathematical & statistical computing
Commercial statistical software from StataCorp widely used in economics and social science, with editions BE/SE/MP, a command language, Mata and comprehensive PDF manuals
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