A hand-picked directory of the Mac apps worth installing, by category. Each category lists free, open source and paid apps, best first, each with an honest note and a price checked on the vendor's own site. It is independent, with no ads or affiliate links.
Check if your repo is AI slop: paste a public GitHub link and get a 0 to 100 slop score. Slopicide rates any public GitHub repo from 0, handcrafted to 100, peak slop, and gives you a report you can share. Use it to check your own project, size up a repo before you depend on it, or just settle an argument with friends.
A diagnostic tool that scans any URL and scores how well it works with AI agents, LLM crawlers, and automation tools. AgentProbe runs 12 checks across discovery, agent-native protocols, access, and metadata to help site owners optimize for the AI-driven web.
Live status of the developer tools you depend on, on one board. Downwatch watches GitHub, Cloudflare, OpenAI and 40+ more status pages every few minutes and shows what's down, degraded, or in maintenance at a glance.
A macOS menu bar app for monitoring Cloudflare Web Analytics across all your sites. FlareStats gives you quick access to visits, page views, and traffic charts with support for multiple time periods, bot filtering, and dark mode. Built with Tauri 2, TypeScript, and Rust.
Discover open-source Ruby gems that need maintainers and contributors. Browse gems with "help wanted" issues or upload your Gemfile to discover contributions waiting in libraries you already use.
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