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Author: Steve Emms

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LinNote – keyboard-driven scratchpad

January 27, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

LinNote is a fast, keyboard-driven scratchpad for Linux. It’s built for KDE Plasma with Qt6.

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Arsse – Advanced RSS Environment

January 27, 2026 Steve Emms Internet

The Arsse is a news aggregator server, written in PHP, which implements multiple synchronization protocols.

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Stopwatch

pomoru – minimalist Pomodoro TUI

January 27, 2026 Steve Emms Productivity, TUI

pomoru is a keyboard-driven TUI application for focused work. It’s written in Rust.

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Wiki Engines

Wiki-Go – flat-file wiki platform

January 26, 2026 Steve Emms Web Apps

Wiki-Go is a modern, feature-rich, databaseless flat-file wiki platform built with Go.

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CPU

pfetch – system information tool

January 26, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

pfetch is a pretty system information tool written in POSIX sh.

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Bookmark manager

bkmr – CLI knowledge management system

January 26, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity, Utilities

bkmr is a fast, feature-rich command-line tool that extends bookmark management, snippet handling, markdown rendering, script execution and more.

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tcpulse – load generator

January 26, 2026 Steve Emms Internet

tcpulse is a concurrent TCP/UDP load generator with fine-grained, flow-level control over connection establishment and data transfer.

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Stopwatch

Tomat – Pomodoro timer

January 26, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity

Tomat is a Pomodoro timer for Linux, designed for seamless integration with waybar and other status bars.

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Audio Analyzers

Soundscope – analyzing audio data

January 26, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia, TUI

Soundscope is a cross-platform CLI tool for analyzing audio files. It has a TUI interface.

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Kafka – distributed event streaming platform

January 26, 2026 Steve Emms Internet

Apache Kafka is a distributed event streaming platform for high-performance data pipelines, streaming analytics, data integration.

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Database

12 Best Free and Open Source Linux Graph Databases

January 26, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, Roundup

A graph database stores nodes and relationships instead of tables, or documents. We recommend the best graph databases.

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Coding

BugStalker – Rust debugger

January 26, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

BugStalker is a modern debugger for Linux x86-64. Written in Rust for Rust programs.

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Network

AWSM – AWS manager

January 26, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

AWSM is billed as a powerful CLI tool to simplify working with AWS profiles, credentials, and sessions.

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Education

Relational – educational tool for relational algebra

January 26, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Education, GUI

Relational is an educational tool to provide a workspace for experimenting with relational algebra, an offshoot of first-order logic.

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whatstyle – find a code format style

January 25, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

whatstyle finds a code format style that fits given source files.

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Video Editing

VideoCut – lossless video cutter

January 25, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

VideoCut is a MP2/MP4 Cutter for Linux on base of mpv and ffmpeg. Cutting is lossless, the target file will not be reencoded.

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Chat

Frolic – modified F-Chat client

January 25, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Internet

Frolic is an F-Chat client developed for simplicity and stability. It’s based on the feature set of the legacy client Rising

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Magical Potions

Vipster – powerful editor for molecular structures

January 25, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Scientific

VIsual Periodic STructure EditoR (Vipster) is a fast and easy to use graphical editor for periodic atomistic simulations.

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Data Science

DAMASK – Düsseldorf Advanced Material Simulation Kit

January 25, 2026 Steve Emms Scientific

DAMASK is a unified multiphysics crystal plasticity simulation package.

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Goofys – Amazon S3 backend filey-system interface

January 25, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

Goofys allows you to mount an S3 bucket as a filey system.

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