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Author: Steve Emms

System Cleaning

CrunchyCleaner – terminal-based application cache cleaner

June 4, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, TUI, Utilities

CrunchyCleaner removes application caches and temporary files through a terminal interface, with dry-run and automated cleaning modes.

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Finance

Cashlytics – personal finance and budget planning

June 4, 2026 Steve Emms Financial, Web Apps

Cashlytics is a self-hosted personal finance app with account tracking, transfers, budgeting forecasts, CSV reconciliation and analytics.

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Office

Collabora Office – desktop office suite with modern interface

June 4, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, GUI, Office

Collabora Office brings document, spreadsheet, presentation and drawing editors to the desktop with offline editing and PDF export.

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Hypervisors

Firecracker – lightweight virtualization technology

June 4, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, System Software

Firecracker runs lightweight KVM-based microVMs with REST API controls, network and storage isolation, snapshots and security hardening.

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Personal Finance

Ledge – terminal-based personal finance tracker

June 4, 2026 Steve Emms Financial, TUI

Ledge is a keyboard-driven personal finance tracker with monthly budgets, transaction filters, spending summaries and CSV data exchange.

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Finance

YAFFA – personal finance application

June 3, 2026 Steve Emms Financial, Web Apps

YAFFA is a self-hosted personal finance application with bank accounts, split transactions, recurring payments, budgets and investments.

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Finance

moneyflow – personal finance transaction manager

June 3, 2026 Steve Emms Financial, TUI

moneyflow manages personal finance transactions across Monarch Money, YNAB and imported statements with terminal and browser interfaces.

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Manga

ani-l – terminal-based anime library and streamer

June 3, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Other, TUI

ani-l lets users browse, search, and stream anime directly from the terminal, with a TUI or command-line options.

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Minisforum M2

MINISFORUM M2 Intel Panther Lake Mini PC Running Linux: BIOS

June 3, 2026 Steve Emms Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

BIOS, or Basic Input/Output System, remains one of the most important pieces of low-level software in any computer. Here’s a look at the M2’s BIOS.

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Finance

Savvy – personal finance and expense tracker

June 3, 2026 Steve Emms Financial, Web Apps

Savvy is a self-hosted finance tracker with multi-currency accounts, debt management, transaction rules, CSV imports and spending reports.

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Web

Souin – configurable HTTP caching system

June 3, 2026 Steve Emms Web Apps

Souin provides standards-aware HTTP response caching, configurable storage, invalidation, monitoring and reverse proxy integration.

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Microdot – lightweight web framework for Python and MicroPython

June 3, 2026 Steve Emms Programming

Microdot is a minimal web framework for Python and MicroPython with routes, cookies, sessions, WebSockets and ASGI or WSGI integration.

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Accountancy

WYGIWYH – self-hosted finance tracker

June 3, 2026 Steve Emms Financial, Web Apps

WYGIWYH is a self-hosted financial tracker for cash flow, accounts, investments, custom currencies, recurring payments and automation.

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Finance

SmartWallet – terminal-based personal finance manager

June 3, 2026 Steve Emms Financial, TUI

SmartWallet is an offline terminal finance manager with nested budget categories, signed transactions and recursive balance calculations.

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Personal Finance

OpenBudgeteer – bucket budgeting application

June 2, 2026 Steve Emms Financial, Web Apps

OpenBudgeteer is a self-hosted budgeting app with buckets, scheduled expenses, transaction imports, spending reports and account tracking.

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Finance

Rex – terminal application for tracking income and expenses

June 2, 2026 Steve Emms Financial, TUI

Rex tracks income, expenses and recurring transactions in a keyboard-driven terminal interface with balance charts and local storage.

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YouTube

GopherTube – terminal YouTube browser and downloader

June 2, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia, TUI

GopherTube searches YouTube from the terminal, with mpv playback, video downloads, quality selection, and a local downloads browser.

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Finance

Ocular – personal budgeting application

June 2, 2026 Steve Emms Financial, Web Apps

Ocular is a self-hosted budgeting application with multi-year budgets, custom financial years, dashboard charts and data import and export.

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Bosgame M7 Mini PC

Bosgame M7 Core Ultra 9 285H running Linux – Cores

June 2, 2026 Steve Emms Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

Benchmarking the Bosgame M7’s Core Ultra 9 285H on Linux, comparing P-cores, E-cores and LP E-cores with Crafty, Coremark and smallpt.

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Website

Envoy – cloud-native edge and service proxy

June 2, 2026 Steve Emms Web Apps

Envoy is a cloud-native network proxy with dynamic routing, service discovery, traffic management, tracing and HTTP response caching.

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