Projects sharing features with Brightness

Ddcctl is a command-line utility for macOS that interfaces directly with connected hardware displays to modify settings programmatically. It provides terminal-based control over external monitor properties such as brightness, contrast, volume, and color profiles. The utility communicates with external hardware using the standard bidirectional monitor control bus to read and write feature values. It queries native operating system display services and walks the kernel device registry to discover attached physical monitors, resolve their hardware service ports, and map user input from terminal

Redshift is a circadian lighting controller and location-aware display tool that adjusts screen color temperature and brightness based on the time of day. It functions as a display gamma manager, modifying color temperature to match ambient lighting conditions and reduce eye strain. The system determines the ideal screen temperature by calculating the sun's elevation using geographic coordinates, which can be provided manually or through automated location tracking. It employs gamma-ramp manipulation to simulate brightness changes and apply color temperature adjustments at the hardware level.

Lunar is an adaptive monitor brightness controller and DDC/CI display manager. It allows for the control of hardware brightness, contrast, and volume on external monitors using native communication protocols. When direct hardware control is unavailable, it functions as a software gamma dimmer to simulate brightness reduction. The project synchronizes external monitor brightness with laptop light sensors, wireless lux meters, or astronomical sun position calculations. It also manages hardware monitor presets, enabling the automation of display configurations and input switching through custom

nightfox.nvim is a customizable Lua-based color scheme for Neovim and Vim. It provides a comprehensive visual theme with dedicated support for language server protocols, Tree-sitter, and various editor plugins. The project distinguishes itself through accessibility features, using daltonization and color simulation to increase contrast for users with color vision deficiency. It also enables dynamic theme development via hot-reloading configuration state, allowing users to refresh the active color scheme without restarting the editor. The system includes programmatic color space conversion an

ImageSharp is a .NET image processing library and manipulation framework used for decoding, encoding, and modifying digital images. It functions as a comprehensive toolkit for resizing, cropping, and applying pixel-level filters while managing color profiles and pixel data across various file formats. The project integrates a 2D vector graphics engine and a typography rendering engine to draw geometric shapes, paths, and complex stylized text onto images. It also includes a geometry boolean operation library for calculating intersections, unions, and differences between complex polygons and c

Monitorian is a Windows utility for adjusting the brightness and contrast of internal and external monitors, primarily through the DDC/CI protocol. It allows users to change these settings for multiple monitors individually or in unison, and provides the ability to rename monitors by editing their displayed names directly. The application extends basic display control with automation and scheduling capabilities. Users can bind brightness adjustments to hot keys, schedule changes to occur at specific times or under certain conditions, and control brightness using touchpad gestures on precision

electron-store is a persistence layer and key-value storage solution for Electron applications. It manages user preferences and application state by saving and retrieving structured data as JSON files on the local file system. The library includes capabilities for obfuscating configuration files to prevent manual modification of saved data. It also provides a system for automatic data structure migration when the application version is incremented and supports custom serialization pipelines to replace standard JSON parsing. The project covers a broad surface of state management, including sc

Electron JSON Storage is a utility for persisting and retrieving JavaScript objects as JSON files on the local filesystem within desktop applications. It functions as a wrapper for managing local configuration files, allowing developers to save and retrieve user preferences and application settings to maintain state across multiple sessions. The library distinguishes itself by providing both asynchronous non-blocking operations and synchronous fallback methods for data access. It manages data through key-value mapping, where unique string identifiers are translated into specific file paths, a

Tilix is a tiling terminal emulator for Linux that uses GTK+ 3 widgets for native desktop integration and theming. It arranges multiple terminal sessions in a resizable grid layout, allowing users to split the window into several panes simultaneously. The application is built on the VTE terminal emulation engine and uses the Meson build system for compilation. The terminal supports synchronized input broadcasting, where keystrokes typed in one pane are replicated to all grouped terminals via D-Bus inter-process communication. It also offers a Quake-style drop-down mode that slides a terminal

Taskbook is a command-line task manager and note-taking application that operates within a terminal interface. It functions as a CLI Kanban board, allowing users to organize work into boards with status tracking and priority levels, while persisting all data as structured JSON documents in a configurable local directory. The tool enables personal knowledge management by grouping tasks and plain text notes into named boards and sections to categorize different projects. It supports task prioritization, status tracking, and the ability to mark items as favorites for quick retrieval. The applic

Chameleon is a color framework for Swift and Objective-C applications, providing a toolkit for managing dynamic palettes, gradient libraries, and hexadecimal conversions. It functions as a system for creating harmonious color schemes and calculating contrasting text colors based on background luminance. The project includes an image color extractor that analyzes images to generate matching color schemes or calculate average colors for user interfaces. It also features a gradient color library for creating and applying smooth transitions to backgrounds and text elements. The framework covers

Smallest-Federated-Wiki is a decentralized knowledge base and federated wiki engine that allows users to fork, refactor, and share interconnected pages across independently hosted servers. It operates through peer-to-peer content federation, synchronizing knowledge by fetching remote page histories and merging shared content dynamically over HTTP. The platform enables decentralized content reuse through client-side page forking, copying external site data directly into a local workspace for independent editing. Document structures are built out of ordered collections of independent JSON data

Stylus is a CSS preprocessor that transforms a dynamic language into standard CSS. It utilizes a compilation workflow to enable the use of variables, nesting, and arithmetic, which are then rendered into stylesheets for use in frontend asset pipelines. The project is distinguished by a flexible syntax that allows for indentation-based styling, meaning curly braces, colons, and semicolons can be omitted. It further differentiates itself through a JavaScript-driven plugin pipeline and the ability to extend the native syntax with custom JavaScript functions for complex logic. Its capability sur

json-server is a development toolset used to simulate a full REST API from a JSON file. It functions as a customizable mock API server that allows for the simulation of CRUD operations and resource relationships without the need to write backend code. The project enables rapid prototyping by generating a fake backend that persists data changes back to a local JSON file. It distinguishes itself by providing a static asset file server to deliver local documents, images, and stylesheets alongside the mock API endpoints. The server includes capabilities for data querying, such as parameter-based

Labelme is a Python-based image annotation tool used to create computer vision datasets. It serves as a visual editor for semantic segmentation, allowing users to define object boundaries using polygons, rectangles, points, and circles. The application also functions as a multispectral image annotator, supporting high-bit depth TIFF files used in satellite and scientific imagery. The tool incorporates AI-assisted labeling capabilities to automate the creation of masks and polygons. These features allow for shape generation driven by text prompts or interactive point selections, which propose

TinyDB is a lightweight, document-oriented database and embedded NoSQL engine. It stores data as documents in local files, providing a persistence layer that operates without a separate server process. The system is an extensible document store featuring a middleware architecture. This allows for the customization of storage backends and the interception of data operations to transform how information is stored and retrieved. The database manages unstructured data using JSON-based serialization and supports pluggable storage backends for local file persistence.

Photopea is a browser-based image editor that runs entirely in the browser without requiring any downloads or installations, capable of editing both raster and vector graphics. It functions as a multi-format image converter, a PSD file editor, a RAW photo processor, and a vector graphics editor, all within a single web application. The editor distinguishes itself through its extensive file format support, opening and saving industry-standard formats including PSD, AI, Sketch, Figma, and XD, as well as native files from Affinity, InDesign, and Krita. It also supports RAW camera files from Niko

Pinta is a cross-platform raster graphics editor and digital image manipulation tool. It provides a drawing environment for creating pixel-based artwork and editing photographs, utilizing a layer-based image model to organize visual components into a stack for non-destructive composition. The application is built with a GTK-based interface and features a plugin-based extension system that allows for the addition of new editing tools and filters. Its capabilities cover digital drawing workflows using various brushes and pencils, image geometry manipulation such as cropping and resizing, and v

Jimp is a zero-dependency JavaScript image processing library and programmatic editor designed for manipulating, resizing, and filtering images in Node.js. It functions as a multi-format image encoder and extensible pipeline that operates entirely in JavaScript to ensure portable deployment across different environments without requiring native system dependencies. The engine features a modular architecture that allows for custom image processor builds and the registration of custom processing plugins. This extensibility enables the addition of specific visual effects and custom file-type enc

1Remote is a portable remote desktop client that manages and launches remote sessions across multiple protocols from a single unified interface. It organizes servers using a flexible tagging system and stores all configuration in structured JSON files for easy backup and transfer between machines. The application supports launching RDP, SSH, VNC, Telnet, and other remote connections, and allows users to replace default protocol handlers with custom external programs that accept command-line arguments. It includes a bulk server editor for applying uniform changes to addresses, credentials, or

Piper is a GTK desktop application and client interface designed to manage gaming peripheral hardware settings. It serves as a visual tool for configuring mice and keyboards by communicating with the libratbag background daemon. The application provides a graphical interface to adjust hardware-level settings without the use of proprietary vendor software. This includes a dedicated configuration UI for gaming mice to manage DPI and other device-specific parameters. The tool covers several hardware customization areas, including RGB lighting patterns, mouse button remapping, and cursor sensiti

Akira is a native Linux application and vector graphics editor designed for creating professional user interface layouts and user experience flows. Built with the Vala language, it functions as a GTK UI design tool for developing visual elements and interface components. The software provides a desktop environment for UI and UX design, enabling the creation of professional layouts and the prototyping of user interaction flows. It specifically supports the construction of GTK interface layouts and Linux-based UI designs.

This project is a comprehensive dataset and archive of classical Chinese poetry, prose, and Confucian classics. It serves as a digital humanities corpus, providing machine-readable access to hundreds of thousands of poems and detailed poet biographies, specifically spanning the Tang and Song dynasties. The collection is distinguished by its scholarly depth, incorporating textual variation annotations to track disputed characters across different source editions. It also includes tonal pattern mapping to describe the rhythmic and phonetic structures of the verse, alongside a popularity ranking

Cinnamon is a desktop environment interface for Linux operating systems. It provides a visual layout and user interface for managing windows and applications, focusing on desktop workflow management. The project enables Linux GUI customization, allowing the look and feel of the environment to be modified. It includes a window management system to handle the placement and behavior of application windows within the workspace. The environment utilizes a JavaScript-based shell and a modular applet architecture for extensibility, while using CSS for component styling. The interface is built with

Mockoon is an HTTP API simulation platform and design tool used to create fake API endpoints that simulate server responses without a backend. It functions as an OpenAPI mock server tool and a JSON API mocking utility, allowing for the rapid iteration of API contracts and the generation of response templates. The project distinguishes itself through a combination of stateful mocking, using a local JSON database to simulate CRUD operations, and the ability to run as a headless API mock server via a command line interface. It supports real-time collaborative editing and AI-assisted prototyping

Budgie Desktop is a graphical workspace environment for Linux systems that integrates window management, application launching, and system control tools. Built upon the GTK toolkit, it provides a unified shell for organizing open windows and interacting with daily computing tasks. The environment distinguishes itself through a modular, plugin-based panel architecture that allows for the dynamic loading of applets into a shared container. It utilizes a centralized object-oriented framework to manage component lifecycles and relies on a dedicated service for secure, authenticated handling of ad

GIMP is an open source raster graphics editor and cross-platform graphics suite. It serves as a digital painting application and image editor used for creating bitmaps, retouching digital photographs, and designing professional visual compositions. The software provides a toolkit for digital painting and raster graphics design, featuring a variety of brushes, layers, and color blending modes. It includes specific workflows for photo retouching and the manipulation of digital images through sketching and retouching tools. Users can customize the graphic interface by modifying the visual appea