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Let’s start our candy adventure with WallGen. It’s a small command-line utility that generates HQ poly wallpapers with only a few text arguments for inputs. Depending on these arguments, you can create shape-based patterns, randomly filled surfaces, and even image-based patterns.
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Violin is billed as a fast, lightweight, and minimalistic desktop music player. It’s cross-platform software running on Linux, MacOS, and Windows. Here’s Luke view of this music player.
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Swift is a powerful and intuitive general-purpose programming language for the OS X, iOS, watchOS, and Linux operating systems. It’s developed by Apple Inc. Swift is intended to be more resilient to erroneous code (“safer”) than Objective-C, and more concise.
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Assembly language is also used primarily for direct hardware manipulation, access to specialized processor instructions, or to address critical performance issues. Assembly is excellent for speed optimization.
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IFStile is software that generates fractals using the Iterated Function System. It’s freeware (not open source) software.
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peco is a CLI utility that filters text interactively. The tool is written in the Go programming language. It’s free and open source software.
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PHP is an extremely popular, interpreted scripting language that is ideally suited for web development and as a general-purpose programming language.
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cli-visualizer is a command line visualizer inspired by C.A.V.A, ncmpcpp, and rainbow. It’s free and open source software.
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Structured Query Language (SQL) is a specialized programming language originally developed by IBM in the early 1970s. The language is designed specifically for accessing and manipulating data held in a relational database management system (RDBMS).
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JavaScript is possibly one of the easiest language to get up and running with. But to truly master the language requires a firm foundation of its intricacies. This compilation of free books ticks all the boxes.
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LanguageTool is a free and open source proofreading tool for English, German, Spanish, Russian, and more than 25 other languages.
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C# (pronounced “See Sharp”) is a multi-purpose computer programming language suitable for a wide variety of development needs. Here’s my recommended books to learn C#.
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C++ was designed by Bjarne Stroustrup with its first release in 1983. It is a statically typed, free-form, multi-paradigm, portable, compiled, general-purpose programming language. It is regarded as an intermediate-level language, as it has a combination of both high-level and low-level language features. C++ was designed for systems and applications programming, extending the C programming language. Hence the name C++, the increment operator is written as ++.
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LyricPad is a free and open source lyrics viewer written in C++ and uses Qt, a free and open-source widget toolkit for creating graphical user interfaces.
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McFly is a tiny utility that replaces the functionality offered by Bash’s ctrl-r with an intelligent search engine.
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