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libjpeg-turbo
SIMD-accelerated libjpeg-compatible JPEG codec library
libjpeg-turbo is a JPEG image codec that uses SIMD instructions (MMX, SSE2, NEON, AltiVec) to accelerate baseline JPEG compression and decompression on x86, x86-64, ARM, and PowerPC systems. On such systems, libjpeg-turbo is generally 2-6x as fast as libjpeg, all else being equal. On other types of systems, libjpeg-turbo can still outperform libjpeg by a significant amount, by virtue of its highly-optimized Huffman coding routines. In many cases, the performance of libjpeg-turbo rivals that of proprietary high-speed JPEG codecs. libjpeg-turbo implements both the traditional libjpeg API as well as the less powerful but more straightforward TurboJPEG API. libjpeg-turbo also features colorspace extensions that allow it to compress from/decompress to 32-bit and big-endian pixel buffers (RGBX, XBGR, etc.), as well as a full-featured Java interface. -
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libusb
A cross-platform library that gives apps easy access to USB devices
Library to enable user space application programs to communicate with USB devices -
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m3u
Live Source
The m3u project is a personal collection and integration of IPTV playlist sources, maintained as a hobby with casual updates. It aggregates streaming sources into .m3u files that can be subscribed to directly in various media players across platforms. The repository provides both simplified and full versions of playlist files, including dedicated lists for live streams and customizable options for users who want personalized M3U configurations. It emphasizes accessibility by offering multiple subscription addresses and supporting IPv6 sources. The project also suggests compatible software players for iOS, Android, Windows, and smart TVs, ensuring that users can easily set up and play live streams. While updates are “as time allows,” the repository has become a popular community-driven resource for IPTV enthusiasts who want quick access to organized streaming content. -
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raylib
A simple and easy-to-use library to enjoy videogames programming
raylib is highly inspired by Borland BGI graphics lib and by XNA framework. Do you want to see all functions available in raylib? Check raylib cheatsheet. raylib is a programming library to enjoy videogames programming; no fancy interface, no visual helpers, no auto-debugging, just coding in the most pure spartan-programmers way. raylib has received several recognitions in the last years and many people have written about the library. Here there are the main awards received from Google and Epic Games. raylib supports multiple target platforms, it has been tested in the following platforms but, technically, any platform that supports C language and OpenGL graphics is valid for raylib or can be very easily ported to. raylib can be combined with several extra libraries for additional functionality, some of those libraries are already used internally while others are provided for user integration, most of these libraries are single-file header-only with no external dependencies. -
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FreeRDP
FreeRDP is a free remote desktop protocol library and clients
FreeRDP is a free implementation of the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP), released under the Apache license. Enjoy the freedom of using your software wherever you want, the way you want it, in a world where interoperability can finally liberate your computing experience. The nightly builds are installed into /opt/freerdp-nightly and can be installed in parallel with the distributions regular freerdp package. Network tracing of RDP can be quite a challenge due to a number of factors such as encryption, compression, and the fact that these protocol features cannot always be disabled or worked around. One of the easiest way of decrypting RDP traffic is to configure the server with a self-signed certificate for which the private key is known, and then use this certificate with a network tracing tool to automatically decrypt the packets. -
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armorpaint
3D PBR Texture Painting Software
ArmorPaint is stand-alone software designed for physically-based texture painting. Drag & drop your 3D models and start painting. Receive instant visual feedback in the viewport as you paint. Work fast with the convenience of nodes. Paint with fully procedural materials. Build fill layers with material nodes. Use brush nodes to create patterns and procedural brushes. ArmorPaint is designed from scratch to run completely on the GPU. This results in a smooth 4K painting experience on medium-power integrated hardware. Up to 16K texture painting is seamless using a high-end graphics card. Ray-traced baking, painting effects and viewport rendering feature running on Direct3D12 and Vulkan are in progress. ArmorPaint is powered by an in-house 3D rendering engine to achieve the best painting experience. -
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Extended Module Player
A multi-format module player and library
libxmp is a library that renders module files to PCM data. xmp is a module player for Unix-like systems, based on libxmp, that plays over 90 mainstream and obscure module formats from Amiga, Atari, Acorn, Apple IIgs and PC, including Protracker (MOD), Scream Tracker 3 (S3M), Fast Tracker II (XM) and Impulse Tracker (IT) files. -
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Kivy
Innovative user interfaces made easy
Kivy is an open source, cross-platform UI framework that lets you develop applications that make use of innovative, multi-touch user interfaces. Written in Python with a graphics engine built over OpenGL ES 2, Kivy supports various input devices and protocols, and gives you access to over 20 widgets that are all highly extensible and have built-in multi-touch support. You can run the same codebase on Mac, Windows, Linux, Android and iOS. Kivy is 100% free and open source with a professionally developed and used toolkit, as well as a stable framework and well-documented API, so you can be confident in using it in a commercial product. -
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libimobiledevice
A cross-platform protocol library to communicate with iOS devices
libimobiledevice is a cross-platform software library that talks the protocols to interact with iOS devices. Unlike other projects, it does not depend on using any existing proprietary libraries and does not require jailbreaking. Access filesystem of a device, access documents of file sharing apps, retrieve information about a device and modify various settings, backup and restore the device in a native way compatible with iTunes. Manage app icons arrangement on the device, install, remove, list and basically manage apps. Activate a device using official servers, manage contacts, calendars, notes and bookmarks, retrieve and remove crashreports. Retrieve various diagnostics information, establish a debug connection for app debugging, mount filesystem images, forward device notifications, manage device provisioning. Take screenshots from the device screen (requires mounted developer image). Simulate changed geolocation of the device (requires mounted developer image). -
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OpenH264
Open Source H.264 Codec
Cisco has taken their H.264 implementation and open-sourced it under BSD license terms. Development and maintenance will be overseen by a board from the industry and the open-source community. Furthermore, we have provided a binary form suitable for inclusion in applications across a number of different operating systems and made this binary module available for download from the Internet. We will not pass on our MPEG-LA licensing costs for this module, and based on the current licensing environment, this will effectively make H.264 free for use on supported platforms. OpenH264 is a codec library which supports H.264 encoding and decoding. It is suitable for use in real-time applications such as WebRTC. Constrained Baseline Profile up to Level 5.2 (Max frame size is 36864 macro-blocks). Arbitrary resolution, not constrained to multiples of 16x16. Rate control with adaptive quantization, or constant quantization. -
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EMV NFC Paycard Enrollment
A Java library used to read and extract data from NFC EMV credit cards
Java library used to read and extract public data from NFC EMV credit cards. -
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Calibre-Web Automated
Calibre-Web but Automated and with tons of New Features
Calibre-Web-Automated (CWA) is an all-in-one, self-hosted solution for managing an ebook library that combines the modern, lightweight web UI style of Calibre-Web with the deeper tooling and conversion capabilities associated with Calibre. The goal is to reduce the common “two-service” setup where users run Calibre-Web for browsing and Calibre separately for conversions, metadata fixes, and automation, by packaging those workflows together in a single system. CWA keeps the familiar strengths of Calibre-Web, like a responsive interface, OPDS feeds for e-readers, and strong user/permission management, while layering in extensive automation features that handle ingest, conversion, metadata enforcement, and library organization with less manual effort. It also expands authentication options (including modern OAuth/OIDC flows) and adds quality-of-life improvements such as enhanced search/filtering, multi-language UI support, and better device-centric workflows for sending to e-readers. -
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hosts
Consolidate and extend hosts files from several well-curated sources
Consolidating and extending hosts files from several well-curated sources. You can optionally pick extensions to block pornography, social media, and other categories. The unified hosts file is optionally extensible. Extensions are used to include domains by category. Currently, we offer the following categories: fakenews, social, gambling, and porn. Extensions are optional, and can be combined in various ways with the base hosts file. The combined products are stored in the alternates folder. Data for extensions are stored in the extensions folder. You manage extensions by curating this folder tree, where you will find the data for fakenews, social, gambling, and porn extension data that we maintain and provide for you. Create an optional blacklist file. The contents of this file (containing a listing of additional domains in hosts file format) are appended to the unified hosts file during the update process. A sample blacklist is included, and may be modified as you need. -
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Swoole
Coroutine-based concurrency library for PHP
Build high-performance, scalable, concurrent TCP, UDP, Unix Socket, HTTP, WebSocket services with PHP and easy to use coroutine, fiber API. Write your next scalable async application server with PHP coroutine and PHP fiber API. Compared with other async programming frameworks or softwares such as Nginx, Tornado, Node.js, Swoole has the built-in PHP coroutine, fiber and async support, multiple threads I/O modules. You can use sync or async, coroutine, fiber API to write the applications or create thousands of light weight fibers within one Linux process. Swoole PHP network framework enhances the efficiency of development team. The network layer in Swoole is event-based and takes full advantage of the underlying epoll/kqueue implementation, making it really easy to serve millions of requests. Swoole 4.x uses a brand new engine kernel and now it has a full-time developer team, so we are entering an unprecedented period in PHP history which offers a unique possibility for rapid evolution. -
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Leaflet
Open-source JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps
Leaflet is a leading open source JavaScript library for creating interactive, mobile-friendly maps. Leaflet is light at just about 38 KB, but is already fully equipped with all the mapping features you could need. Leaflet is simple but efficient. It doesn’t try to do everything for everybody, rather it focuses on making the basic things work perfectly. It comes ready with exceptional layering tools, customization features such as pure CSS3 popups and controls, map controls and more right out of the box, and works on all major desktop and mobile platforms. Leaflet also comes with a range of interaction features, and can be extended with an abundance of great plugins. -
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Surge-rules
The Surge rule set (DOMAIN-SET and RULE-SET) for the Surge for iOS
Surge-rules is a project devoted to maintaining and distributing rule sets compatible with the Surge proxy application (for macOS/iOS), intended for domain- or routing-based traffic management. Instead of manually building or maintaining Surge configuration files, users can rely on this repo to obtain up-to-date “RULE-SET” or “DOMAIN-SET” configurations that reflect community-curated lists of domains/IPs for direct access, proxying, blocking, or custom routing. Because network and domain landscapes shift over time — with new domains added, blocked, or repurposed — surge-rules offers a streamlined, shared resource so users don’t have to rebuild their rule sets from scratch. The repo formats rulesets in a way Surge expects, making installation or updating straightforward for users of the Surge client. -
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Store5
A Kotlin Multiplatform library for building network-resilient apps
Modern software needs data representations to be fluid and always available. Users expect their UI experience to never be compromised (blocked) by new data loads. Whether an application is social, news or business-to-business, users expect a seamless experience both online and offline. International users expect minimal data downloads as many megabytes of downloaded data can quickly result in astronomical phone bills. Store is a typed repository that returns a flow of Data /Loading /Error from local and network data sources. -
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FlatBuffers
Memory Efficient Serialization Library
FlatBuffers is an open source, cross-platform serialization library designed for maximum memory efficiency. Originally created at Google for game development and other performance-critical apps, FlatBuffers has the unique ability of allowing you to directly access serialized data without having to parse or unpack beforehand. Since the only memory needed to access your data is that of the buffer, it is also very memory efficient and fast. FlatBuffers supports Windows, MacOS, Linux and Android, as well as any other operating systems with a recent C++ compiler. It supports a great number of programming languages, including C++, C#, C, Go, Java, Kotlin, JavaScript, Lobster, Lua, TypeScript, PHP and many others in progress. -
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socket.io
Realtime application framework (Node.JS server)
socket.io is a JavaScript library that allows for realtime, bi-directional communication between web clients and servers. It is composed of two parts: a Node.js server and a JavaScript client library that runs in the browser. socket.io is focused on both reliability and speed, delivering an immensely powerful, fast and yet easy to use realtime engine that’s used by just about everyone: from Microsoft Office and Zendesk to hackathon winners and small startups. It’s considered one of the most depended-upon npm modules, and works on every platform, browser or device. -
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Shaderc
A collection of tools, libraries, and tests for Vulkan shader
Shaderc is a collection of tools and libraries for compiling shaders—small programs that run on GPUs—into SPIR-V, the intermediate representation used by the Vulkan graphics API. It provides both a command-line tool (glslc) and a C/C++ library (libshaderc) that wrap the functionality of glslang (the Khronos reference compiler for GLSL) and SPIRV-Tools to deliver a modern, scriptable, and efficient shader compilation workflow. The glslc compiler offers a GCC/Clang-like interface for building GLSL and HLSL shaders, making it easy to integrate into existing build systems. Meanwhile, libshaderc exposes a stable API that allows developers to programmatically compile shader strings into SPIR-V modules within graphics engines and tools. Shaderc supports advanced features such as file inclusion (#include), concurrency, and cross-platform builds, and it maintains backward compatibility for long-term projects. -
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QtAV
A multimedia framework based on Qt and FFmpeg
QtAV is a cross-platform and high performance multimedia playback framework based on Qt and FFmpeg. Features: timeline preview, gpu decoding etc -
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FastClick
Easy-to-use library to remove click delays on browsers with touch UIs
FastClick is a simple, easy-to-use library for eliminating the 300ms delay between a physical tap and the firing of a click event on mobile browsers. The aim is to make your application feel less laggy and more responsive while avoiding any interference with your current logic. FastClick is developed by FT Labs, part of the Financial Times. Note: As of late 2015 most mobile browsers - notably Chrome and Safari - no longer have a 300ms touch delay, so fastclick offers no benefit on newer browsers, and risks introducing bugs into your application. Consider carefully whether you really need to use it. The library has been deployed as part of the FT Web App. FastClick doesn't attach any listeners on desktop browsers. -
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stb
stb single-file public domain libraries for C/C++
stb is an open source collection of single-file C libraries created by Sean Barrett (nothings) for graphics, image loading, and utility functions. The repository provides lightweight, public domain libraries that can be easily integrated into projects without external dependencies or complex build processes. Popular components include stb_image.h for image loading, stb_image_write.h for writing images, and stb_truetype.h for font rendering. These libraries are widely used in game development, graphics engines, and multimedia applications due to their simplicity and portability. The project emphasizes ease of use, minimalism, and performance while avoiding bloated frameworks. Maintained and supported by the open source community, stb has become a standard toolkit for C and C++ developers working with images and graphics. -
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ESP32 BLE Keyboard library
Bluetooth LE Keyboard library for the ESP32
This library allows you to make the ESP32 act as a Bluetooth Keyboard and control what it does. Compatible with Android. Compatible with Windows. Compatible with Linux. Compatible with MacOS X (not stable, some people have issues, doesn't work with old devices). Compatible with iOS (not stable, some people have issues, doesn't work with old devices). There is also Bluetooth-specific information that you can set (optional): Instead of BleKeyboard bleKeyboard; you can do BleKeyboard bleKeyboard("Bluetooth Device Name", "Bluetooth Device Manufacturer", 100);. (Max length is 15 characters, anything beyond that will be truncated.) By default the battery level will be set to 100%, the device name will be ESP32 Bluetooth Keyboard and the manufacturer will be Espressif. This feature is meant to compensate for some applications and devices that can't handle fast input and will skip letters if too many keys are sent in a small time frame. -
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Hacking with Swift
The project source code for Hacking with iOS
HackingWithSwift is an extensive open-source repository that accompanies a popular tutorial series focused on teaching Swift programming for iOS development. It contains a large collection of example projects, exercises, and complete applications that guide learners from beginner to advanced levels. The repository is structured into different learning tracks, including UIKit-based development and modern SwiftUI approaches, allowing developers to explore multiple paradigms within the Apple ecosystem. Each project is designed to reinforce specific concepts such as UI design, data handling, animations, and app architecture. The material emphasizes hands-on learning, encouraging users to build real applications rather than passively consume theory. It is continuously updated to align with the latest versions of Swift, Xcode, and iOS, ensuring relevance for modern development practices.
