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Author: Steve Emms

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dateutils – collection of command line utilities

May 25, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

dateutils is a collection of command line utilities for working with dates, times, and date-time values in the shell.

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LAN

UPSWake – automate Wake-on-LAN using UPS status

May 24, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

UPSWake monitors NUT UPS servers and sends Wake-on-LAN packets using Rego policies, with flexible wake intervals, CLI commands and an API.

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Fractals

Fractals Explorer – real-time GPU-accelerated fractal explorer

May 24, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

Fractals Explorer renders Mandelbrot, Julia, Burning Ship and Newton fractals in real time with GPU acceleration and deep zooming.

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Git Clients

git-flow-next – manage Git-flow branching workflows

May 24, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

git-flow-next manages Git-flow feature, release, hotfix and support branches with configurable rules, shorthand commands and improved merges.

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Email

Mail-in-a-Box – self-hosted email server solution

May 24, 2026 Steve Emms Internet

Mail-in-a-Box automates self-hosted email with webmail, SMTP, IMAP, calendar and contact syncing, DNS management, and backups.

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Clipboard

Ortu – local-first clipboard manager

May 24, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

Ortu is a local-first clipboard manager built with Tauri, Rust, and SvelteKit.

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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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