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Stairways Software Pty Ltd · macOS automation
Commercial macOS macro application that runs sequences of actions from hotkeys, typed strings, application, time, device and system triggers
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Stairways Software Pty Ltd · macOS automation
Commercial macOS macro application that runs sequences of actions from hotkeys, typed strings, application, time, device and system triggers
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
Apple's low-level GPU programming framework for graphics and parallel compute on iOS, macOS and visionOS, the layer beneath MLX, Core ML and most Apple Silicon ML runtimes
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
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
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
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
Posit Software, PBC · Mathematical & statistical computing
Posit's multi-language data-science IDE built on Code OSS, with first-class R and Python consoles, variables and plots panes, under the Elastic License 2.0
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
JetBrains · IDEs & editors
Python IDE from JetBrains with deep static analysis, refactoring, debugging, scientific tooling and a unified free core with a paid Pro tier
Raycast Technologies Ltd · macOS system utilities
Extensible launcher for macOS (with Windows and iOS versions) combining app search, clipboard history, snippets, window management and a store of community extensions
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
Posit Software, PBC · Mathematical & statistical computing
Posit's open-source integrated development environment for R, with console, editor, plots, environment panes, Quarto/R Markdown authoring and Python via reticulate
Apple Inc. · macOS automation
Apple's built-in visual automation app for macOS, iOS and iPadOS that chains app actions, scripts and system functions into runnable shortcuts
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
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
Apple Inc. · Swift & SwiftUI development
Apple's declarative UI framework for building interfaces in Swift that run across iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, tvOS and visionOS
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