Local Development

A curated list of free software that can be run on your own machine, sorted by what the software does.

Keeps chosen folders identical across two or more machines, continuously, with no company's server holding the files.

A whole language model and the program that runs it, in one downloadable file.

A web page that starts, stops, edits and watches every container on one server.

A desktop window onto a database, so you can read and edit rows without writing commands.

A Python notebook stored as a plain code file, where changing one cell updates every cell that depends on it.

PostgreSQL compiled so it runs inside a JavaScript program or inside a web page.

Modern Load Testing as Code

Fast cross-platform HTTP benchmarking tool written in Go

A SQL editor that runs inside a terminal window, with a table list and name completion.

It links a few servers into one private network and runs containers across them, with no central controller.

Opens a single SQLite database file as a web page for browsing, editing, querying, importing and exporting.

Fortio load testing library, command line tool, advanced echo server and web UI in go (golang). Allows to specify a set query-per-second load and record latency histograms and other useful stats.

You keep one file describing the database you want, and it works out and applies the difference.

Finds and deletes the rebuildable folders that old projects leave behind.

A command-line program that formats YAML files, and can check them instead of changing them.

It prints the state of every code project in a folder, in one screen.