Development & DevOps Software for macOS
SocialVPN
SocialVPN or IPOP (IP-Over-P2P) is a user-centric, open-source software virtual network that lets end users build their own VPNs. SocialVPN is capable of establish peer-to-peer (P2P) virtual private networks with the help of a social backend like XMPP server (Jabber-Net or Google chat). Such reliable backend can securely authenticate users, maintain a list of each party and establish secure TLS for X.509 certificate exchange.
Sketch
Sketch is a vector design tool for macOS that is primarily used for UI and UX creation. With Sketch designers can create icons, websites and user interface components that are compatible with desktop and mobile devices. The software's .sketch files are compatible with popular design tools such as Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop. Sketch is good tool for both beginners and professionals alike, and has a strong community which stands by the software.
XAMPP
XAMPP is a free and open-source Apache web server stack used in web development. The XAMPP stack contains pre-configured versions of Apache HTTP Server, MariaDB, PHP, and Perl. XAMPP makes it really easy to install and use the stack on macOS, Linux or Windows.
Ungit
Let's face it, Git is not allways easy to use through the command line, especially if you are working across projects and branches. Ungit was created to solve this problem. Ungit is a free and open-source plaform for managing Git visually. Ungit is self-hosted and runs on any platform that supports Node.js and Git. The software also works well with Git platforms such as GitHub and GitLab.
VirtualBox
VirtualBox is a free and open-source hosted hypervisor for x86 virtualization, developed by Oracle. The software is used to create virtual machines that can be used for testing, and building software in virtually contained environments. VirtualBox is available for on macOS, Linux. Windows, Solaris and OpenSolaris.
Flutter
Flutter is an open-source UI software development kit created by Google. Flutter allows developers to write Android and iOS application in Dart. Flutter can be installed on any desktop computer and server that runs Linux, macOS or Windows. The SDK provide developers with a great developer experience with hot reload, that allows for quick iterations and a quick development workflow when building UI's, adding features and fixing bugs.
Github
GitHub is a platform that provides hosting for software development version control for open source and closed source projects. The platform utilize the revision control system Git, and build services around this open-source technology. With GitHub developers and teams can collaborate on software projects and build, host, and promote source code of their own open-source projects. GitHub itself is closed-source and was acquired by Microsoft in 2018 for US$7.5 billion.
VSCodium
VSCodium is a community-driven, freely-licensed binary distribution of Microsoft’s editor VSCode. VSCodium is built on the same source code as VSCode, but with telemetry and tracking removed before it is packaged as an application. VSCodium is released under the MIT license and is a great way to use VSCode without being tracked by Microsoft.
Light Table
Light Table is an IDE (integrated development environment) for software development. The application is built by Chris Granger and Robert Attorri and features real-time feedback allowing instant execution, debugging and access to documentation.
MAMP
MAMP is a free, local server environment for macOS and Windows. With MAMP, anyone can start a local web server that can be used to develop WordPress sites or other web applications. MAMP supports Apache and Nginx and provides a pre-configured installation of MySQL, all of which can be used to create applications in PHP, Python, Perl and Ruby.