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Author: Steve Emms

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waifu2x-ncnn-vulkan – image upscaler and denoiser

May 12, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

waifu2x-ncnn-vulkan upscales and denoises images on Vulkan GPUs, with model selection, batch processing, tiling and test-time augmentation.

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Pixed – touch-friendly pixel art editor

May 12, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

Pixed is a touch-oriented pixel art editor for Linux with project import, palettes, PNG and SVG support, and an Avalonia interface.

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Bosgame M7 Mini PC

Bosgame M7 Core Ultra 9 285H running Linux – Benchmarking

May 12, 2026 Steve Emms Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

The BOSGAME M7 is a very powerful mini PC based on the Intel Core Ultra 9 285H processor with integrated Intel Arc 140T graphics.

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PixlPunkt – pixel art and animation editor

May 12, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

PixlPunkt is a pixel art editor with animation timelines, tile editing, non-destructive layer effects, palettes and plugin support.

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Git Clients

git-open – small command-line helper

May 12, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

git-open is a small command-line helper that adds a handy git open command to Git.

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Machine Learning

chaiNNer – node-based image processing workflows

May 12, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

chaiNNer builds image processing pipelines with AI upscaling, batch jobs, video nodes and support for PyTorch, NCNN, ONNX and TensorRT.

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pydoclint – Python docstring linter

May 12, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

pydoclint is a Python docstring linter intended for developers who want stricter, more reliable docstring validation in Python projects.

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Git Clients

git-when-merged – command-line tool

May 12, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

git-when-merged is a command-line tool that helps you find the merge commit that first brought a specific commit into a branch.

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Documentation

advcpmv – patch for cp

May 12, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

advcpmv is a maintained patch set for Core Utilities that extends cp and mv with progress-aware transfer output.

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Documentation

cpx – modern replacement for the traditional cp command

May 11, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

cpx is a command-line utility for Linux that rethinks the classic cp command with an emphasis on speed, resilience.

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Git Clients

git-fixup – command-line helper for Git users

May 11, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

git-fixup is a command-line helper for Git users who rely on interactive rebase and autosquash.

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Refurb – modernize Python codebases

May 11, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

Refurb is a command-line utility that helps developers modernize Python codebases

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Git Clients

git-autofixup – Git helper that creates fixup commits for topic branches

May 11, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

git-autofixup is a Git helper that creates fixup commits for topic branches.

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Minisforum AI X1 Pro

Minisforum AI X1 Pro: Easy Diffusion

May 11, 2026 Steve Emms Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews, Scientific

Easy Diffusion’s newer v4 engine can use the Ryzen AI 9 HX 370’s Radeon 890M GPU for image generation. It makes a big difference.

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neostandard – successor to the standardjs javascript style guide

May 11, 2026 Steve Emms Programming

neostandard is an ESLint shareable configuration and helper designed as a modern successor to the standardjs style guide.

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OpenAPI Validator – configurable and extensible validator/linter

May 11, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

OpenAPI Validator is a configurable validator and linter for OpenAPI documents.

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Encrypted Files

Picocrypt NG – lightweight file encryption tool

May 11, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Security

Picocrypt NG encrypts files with XChaCha20 and Argon2id. Explore its GUI, password-based volumes, error correction and recovery features.

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deptry – check for dependency issues

May 11, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

deptry is a command line utility for Python projects that checks declared dependencies against the modules actually imported by the codebase.

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Git Clients

git-revise – Git subcommand and Python library

May 11, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

git revise is a Git subcommand and Python library for efficiently updating, splitting, and rearranging commits.

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Static Site Generator

CoWeM – static site generator for course websites

May 11, 2026 Steve Emms Web Apps

CoWeM generates course websites, lecture notes and slides from Markdown, with conditional content, LaTeX maths and SCORM exports.

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