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DevOps

10 Best Free and Open Source Continuous Integration Systems

March 3, 2026 Steve Emms Programming, Roundup

Continuous integration (CI) is the practice of merging all developers’ working copies to a shared mainline several times a day.

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Selection of utilities

Monique – MONitor Integrated QUick Editor

March 3, 2026 Steve Emms Software

MONitor Integrated QUick Editor is a graphical monitor configuration tool for Hyprland and Sway.

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Wi-Fi Internet

NM GUI – NetworkManager GUI

March 3, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Internet

NM GUI is a simple, lightweight GTK4-based GUI for NetworkManager using nmcli.

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DevOps

10 Best Free and Open Source Continuous Delivery Systems

March 3, 2026 Steve Emms Programming, Roundup

Continuous delivery (CD) is a software engineering approach in which developers produce software in short cycles.

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5 Best Free and Open Source Terminal-Based Matrix Clients

March 3, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Internet, Roundup

This roundup features the finest terminal-based Matrix clients. Only free and open source software is eligible for inclusion.

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Gollama – manage Ollama models

March 3, 2026 Steve Emms Scientific, TUI

Gollama is a tool for managing Ollama models. It provides a TUI for listing, inspecting, deleting, copying, and pushing Ollama models.

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domain-check – check domain availability

March 3, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

domain-check is a CLI tool for checking domain availability using RDAP and WHOIS protocols.

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Chess

BBP Pairings – Swiss-system chess tournament engine

March 3, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Games

BBP Pairings is an engine for pairing players in a Swiss-system chess tournament.

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Coding

MCP Probe – MCP protocol debugger and interactive client

March 2, 2026 Steve Emms Programming, TUI

MCP Probe is a powerful Terminal User Interface (TUI) for debugging, testing, and interacting with Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers.

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Task Manager

WHPH – productivity app

March 2, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

WHPH is billed as a comprehensive productivity app designed to help you manage tasks, develop new habits, and optimize your time.

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Essential Utilities to Boost Producitivity

fre – track your most-used directories and files

March 2, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

fre is a CLI tool for tracking your most-used directories and files.

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Mastodon

Perch – terminal social client for Mastodon and Bluesky

March 2, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, TUI

Perch is billed as a beautiful terminal social client for Mastodon and Bluesky.

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Chuwi CoreBook Air Plus

Chuwi CoreBook Air Plus running Linux: BIOS

March 2, 2026 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Laptops, Reviews

This is a new series looking at the Chuwi CoreBook Air Plus running Linux. I take a look at the laptop’s BIOS.

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Task Manager

Mindwtr – Getting Things Done (GTD) productivity system

March 2, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

Mindwtr (Mind Like Water) is a complete Getting Things Done (GTD) productivity system for desktop and mobile.

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Network

Alternatives to popular CLI tools: ping

March 2, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Software, Utilities

This article spotlights alternative tools to ping. All software featured here is free and open source goodness.

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Satellite Tool

TLEscope – satellite visualization tool

March 2, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Scientific

​TLEscope is a satellite visualization tool designed to transform Two-Line Element (TLE) sets into intuitive, interactive data.

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Shutdown

4 Best Free and Open Source Shutdown Timers

March 2, 2026 Steve Emms Roundup, Utilities

Linux is blessed with an abundance of useful utilities. We feature interesting shutdown timers. Open source goodness as you’d expect.

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Documentation

ring – ping rewritten in Rust

March 2, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

ring is a simple ping too that’s been written in Rust.

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Wi-Fi Internet

nmsurf – minimal NetworkManager frontend

March 2, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Internet

nmsurf provides a simple interface to manage networks using NetworkManager, with support for launcher-based menus such as wofi.

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Web Content Management Systems

10 Best Free and Open Source Flat File Content Management Systems

March 2, 2026 Steve Emms Blog, Roundup, Web Apps

A flat file CMS stores content as flat files, instead of storing in a database. We capture our recommendations.

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