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Author: Steve Emms

Fractals

Fractalshades – create static and interactive fractal visualisations

May 24, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

Fractalshades creates detailed Mandelbrot and Burning Ship visualisations with arbitrary-precision deep zooming, shading and animation.

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Mixer

pavucontrol-qt – Pulseaudio mixer in Qt

May 24, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

pavucontrol-qt is a Qt port of pavucontrol, the PulseAudio volume control utility.

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LAN

UpSnap – self-hosted wake-on-LAN web application

May 24, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, Web Apps

UpSnap is a self-hosted Wake-on-LAN web app with scheduling, device discovery, status monitoring, IP tracking and user controls.

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CNC Software

bCNC – cross-platform Python application for CNC machines

May 24, 2026 Steve Emms Scientific

bCNC is a cross-platform Python application for CNC machines that use grblHAL and GRBL-compatible firmware.

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cut command

xcut – extends the traditional Unix cut tool

May 23, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

xcut extends the traditional Unix cut tool with more flexible ways to extract and filter fields from structured text.

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Emacs

Crafted Emacs is a modular starter configuration for Emacs

May 23, 2026 Steve Emms Documents

Crafted Emacs is a modular starter configuration for Emacs aimed at people who want to build and understand their own setup

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Clipboard

Clapboard – clipboard manager for Wayland

May 23, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity

Clapboard is a Wayland clipboard manager with configurable selection menus, favourite snippets, history limits and cache syncing.

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Fractals

rsfrac – terminal-based fractal explorer

May 23, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, TUI

rsfrac is a terminal-based fractal explorer for Mandelbrot, Julia and Burning Ship sets, with precise zooming and custom rendering.

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Email

Mailu – self-hosted mail server stack

May 23, 2026 Steve Emms Internet

Mailu is a self-hosted mail server stack offering SMTP, IMAP, webmail, account administration, spam filtering, and email security tools.

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Saving Money with Linux

LACT – Linux GPU Control Application

May 23, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, System Software

LACT provides graphical GPU monitoring and control for AMD, NVIDIA and Intel hardware, including clocks, power, fans and profiles.

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CNC Software

CAMotics – 3-axis CNC GCode simulator

May 23, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, Scientific

CAMotics is a CNC simulation and computer-aided machining application that lets you load 3-axis GCode programs.

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SQL

usql – command-line database client

May 23, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Database, Documents

usql is a command-line database client that gives a single, consistent interface for working with many different database systems.

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Emacs

minimal-emacs.d – minimal Emacs starter kit

May 23, 2026 Steve Emms Documents

minimal-emacs.d is a minimal Emacs starter kit that provides a ready-made early-init.el and init.el for users.

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SQL

Skeema – declarative schema management for MySQL and MariaDB

May 22, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Database, Documents

Skeema manages MySQL and MariaDB schemas using SQL files, environment-aware changes, schema linting and automated DDL generation.

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Email

Nextcloud Mail – integrated email client for Nextcloud

May 22, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, Web Apps

Nextcloud Mail combines multiple IMAP accounts with scheduling, snoozing, filters, delegated access, shared files and contacts.

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VoIP

continuwuity – community-driven Matrix homeserver

May 22, 2026 Steve Emms Internet

Continuwuity is a community-driven Matrix homeserver written in Rust.

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Keyboard

HHKB Professional HYBRID Type-S Keyboard Review

May 22, 2026 Steve Emms Accessories, Hardware, Reviews

The HHKB Professional Hybrid is a compact 60-key keyboard with a very particular audience in mind. Here’s my review.

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cut command

cuts – Perl command-line utility

May 22, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

cuts is a Perl command-line utility that enhances the traditional Unix/POSIX cut tool for extracting columns from text files.

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Biwin Black Opal NV7400 1TB M.2 PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD Review

May 22, 2026 Steve Emms Hardware, Reviews

Biwin Black Opal NV7400 1TB review: Linux benchmarks, real-world file tests, thermals, and sustained write performance.

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Git Clients

wrkflw – validate and run CI workflows locally

May 22, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming, TUI

wrkflw validates and runs GitHub Actions locally, with Kubernetes execution, GitLab and Gitea workflows, matrix builds and live diagnostics.

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