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PixelTerm-C – terminal image viewer

December 24, 2025 Steve Emms Graphics, TUI

PixelTerm-C is a high-performance terminal image browser written in C, based on the Chafa library.

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Christmas

Season’s Greetings from LinuxLinks

December 24, 2025 Steve Emms Blog

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from everyone at LinuxLinks. We hope you have a lovely time over the festive season.

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Git Clients

fuss – quick staging dirty git files

December 24, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

fuss is an interactive tree utility for complete git workflows, written in modern Fortran.

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dirmap – tool for generating a directory map

December 24, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

dirmap is a tool for generating a directory map.

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lux – package manager for Lua

December 24, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

lux is a luxurious package manager for Lua.

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Email

Dove – configuration and modifications for Mozilla Thunderbird

December 24, 2025 Steve Emms Internet

Dove is a suite of configurations & advanced modifications for Mozilla Thunderbird, designed to put the user first

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kirill – JSON validator

December 24, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

kirill scans projects large and small for JSON correctness.

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Selection of utilities

xLights – sequencer for lights

December 23, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

xLights is a sequencer to design, create and play lighting displays through the use of DMX controllers, E1.31 Ethernet controllers and more.

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Redress – tool for analyzing stripped binaries

December 23, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

The redress software is a tool for analyzing stripped Go binaries compiled with the Go compiler.

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Application Launchers

Stryde – application launcher

December 23, 2025 Steve Emms Desktop

Stryde is an application launcher that’s in an early stage of development.

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Selection of utilities

ck – semantic code search

December 23, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, TUI, Utilities

ck (seek) finds code by meaning, not just keywords. It’s grep that understands what you’re looking for

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Prog8 – structured programming language

December 23, 2025 Steve Emms Programming

Prog8 is a structured programming language for the 8-bit 6502/6510/65c02 microprocessor from the late 1970’s and 1980’s

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Screen Capture

termframe – terminal output SVG screenshot tool

December 23, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

This tool is a non-interactive terminal emulator that executes a single command, renders its output in an internal virtual session, and exports a screenshot as an SVG file.

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Flash OS

buf – flash ISOs to create bootable USB drives

December 23, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

buf is a command-line utility for flashing ISOs to create bootable USB drives.

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Cloud

9 Best Free and Open Source IDEs for Kubernetes

December 23, 2025 Steve Emms Internet, Roundup

Kubernetes is a powerful open-source platform designed to streamline the deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications.

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Essential Utilities to Boost Producitivity

demongrep – fast, local semantic code search

December 23, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Search your codebase using natural language queries like “where do we handle authentication?” — all running locally with no API calls.

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Austin TUI – Top-like Interface for Austin

December 23, 2025 Steve Emms Programming, TUI

Austin TUI is a top-like text-based user interface for Austin, the frame stack sampler for CPython.

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Web Browsers

Websitino – lightweight static file server

December 23, 2025 Steve Emms Web Apps

Websitino is a lightweight static file server. It’s designed for testing static websites and serving files with minimal setup.

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Passive OS Fingerprinting

Fingwit – configure fingerprint authentication

December 23, 2025 Steve Emms Utilities

Fingwit is used to configure fingerprint authentication. Fingwit relies on Fprintd.

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Selection of utilities

DankMaterialShell – desktop shell

December 23, 2025 Steve Emms Desktop

DankMaterialShell is a complete desktop shell for niri, Hyprland, MangoWC, Sway, labwc, and other Wayland compositors.

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