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Folo – AI-powered news aggregator

December 2, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Internet

Folo organizes content into one timeline, keeping you updated on what matters, noise free.

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Minisforum UM890 Pro Mini PC Running Linux: cTDP

December 2, 2025 Steve Emms Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

Delving into the UM890 Pro’s BIOS reveals an option not available in the other mini PC’s I’ve been writing about. The BIOS setting lets you set the AMD Configurable TDP (cTDP).

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PDF

tdf – TUI-based PDF viewer

December 2, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, TUI

tdf is a terminal-based PDF viewer. Designed to be performant, very responsive, and work well with even very large PDFs.

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Files

Alternatives to popular CLI tools: rename

December 2, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Software

This article spotlights alternative tools to rename which renames the specified files by replacing the first occurrence of expression in their name by replacement.

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Files

regname – mass renamer TUI

December 2, 2025 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

regname is a mass renamer utility with a text user-interface.

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Password Managers

OneKeePass – password manager

December 2, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

OneKeePass is a cross-platform,open source and secure password manager. It supports the KeePass-compatible database (Kdbx 4.x).

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process

yadm – yet another dotfiles manager

December 2, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

yadm is like having a version of Git, that only operates on your dotfiles. If you know how to use Git, you already know how to use yadm.

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cljstyle – tool for formatting Clojure code

December 2, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

cljstyle is a tool for formatting Clojure code. The cljstyle tool supports several different commands for checking source files.

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Audio Programming

Pd-L2Ork – fork of Pure Data

December 2, 2025 Steve Emms Multimedia, Programming

Pd-L2Ork is a fork of Pure Data. a visual programming language. That means you can use it to create software graphically by drawing diagrams.

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process

Rustow – modern Stow implementation

December 1, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Rustow is Stow rewritten in Rust. While writing Rustow, Stow only used as a starting idea not as an objective.

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RSS Feeds

liveboat – static page generator for Newsboat feeds

December 1, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

Liveboat is a static page generator which turns Newsboat RSS reader feed data into beautiful static websites.

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lvsk-calendar – terminal-based calendar application

December 1, 2025 Steve Emms Productivity, TUI

lvsk-calendar is a terminal-based calendar application with minimalist design and monochromatic pastel aesthetics.

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Find Duplicates

osgrep – natural-language search that works like grep

December 1, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

osgrep is a tool for natural-language search that works like grep. Fast, local, and built for coding agents.

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Monitor System

Xosview2 – X11 system monitor

December 1, 2025 Steve Emms GUI

Xosview2 is a lightweight program that gathers information from your operating system and displays it in graphical form.

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Keyboard

CrossMacro – modern mouse macro recording and playback

December 1, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

CrossMacro is a modern mouse macro recording and playback application for Linux Wayland compositors.

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Compression

rapidgzip – parallelized decompression of gzip files

December 1, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

rapidgzip can be used for parallel decompression of almost any gzip file.

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YouTube

ytsurf – YouTube in your terminal

December 1, 2025 Steve Emms Multimedia, TUI

ytsurf lets you watch YouTube in your terminal. Clean and distraction-free.

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Data Science

binjr – time series browser

December 1, 2025 Steve Emms Scientific

binjr is a time series browser; it renders time series data produced by other applications as dynamically editable representations

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SQL

DoltgreSQL – Postgres-compatible version of Dolt

December 1, 2025 Steve Emms Database

DoltgreSQL, or Doltgres for short, is a Postgres-compatible version of Dolt.

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File Managers

e2ecp – transfer files

December 1, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

e2ecp lets you transfer files between machines through the web, through a CLI, or both.

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