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9 Best Free and Open Source Survey Tools

February 8, 2026 Steve Emms Roundup, Web Apps

The software featured here lets you build fully-customizable surveys, forms and quizzes.

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Technology

Rooks – steganographic tool

February 8, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Security

Rook Stego is a steganographic tool that implements some of the most advanced hiding methods.

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Selection of utilities

Celerator – TUI to debug and monitor Celery tasks

February 8, 2026 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

Celerator is a TUI (Text User Interface) application for debugging and monitoring Celery tasks in real time.

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Notes

FuzPad – minimalistic note management solution

February 7, 2026 Steve Emms Productivity, TUI

FuzPad is a minimalistic note management solution. It’s powered by fzf.

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Log Analyzers

goxe – log reduction tool

February 7, 2026 Steve Emms System Software

goxe is a high-performance log reduction tool. It ingests logs (currently via syslog/udp), normalizes and filters them

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Formbricks – open source Qualtrics alternative

February 7, 2026 Steve Emms Web Apps

Formbricks provides a surveying platform. Gather feedback at every point in the user journey with beautiful in-app, website, link and email surveys.

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Music

7 Best Free and Open Source UPnP Media Servers

February 7, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, Multimedia, Roundup, System Software

A music streamer lets you share your music, photos and videos with your network. Here’s the best free and open source music streamers.

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Documentation

Alternatives to popular CLI tools: cat

February 7, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Software, Utilities

cat derives its name from concatenation and provides other nifty options too. This article spotlights alternative tools to cat.

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Network

6 Best Free and Open Source Graphical Gemini Clients

February 7, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, Roundup

Gemini is a group of technologies similar to the ones that lie behind your familiar web browser. We recommend the best graphical Gemini clients.

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YouTube

xytz – TUI frontend for yt-dlp

February 7, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia, TUI

xytz is a TUI app for searching and downloading YouTube videos, built with Go and Bubble Tea. It uses yt-dlp.

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6 Best Free and Open Source OCR Screen Capture Tools

February 7, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, Roundup, Utilities

This article highlights OCR powered screen-capture tools to capture information instead of images.

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Selection of utilities

dekl – declarative package and dotfile management for Arch Linux

February 7, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

dekl allows you to define your system’s packages and configuration in YAML files, making your setup reproducible and version-controllable.

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Encrypted Files

5 Best Free and Open Source Encrypted FUSE-Based File Systems

February 7, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, Roundup, System Software

Here’s our verdict on the popular encrypted FUSE-based file systems.

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DailyDash – head-up display for developers

February 7, 2026 Steve Emms Programming, TUI

DailyDash is a terminal-based “Head-Up Display” (HUD) designed for focus-driven developers.

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Bookmark manager

Libro – terminal based book tracking tool

February 7, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Documents, TUI

Libro is a terminal-based tool to track your reading history, with your data stored locally in a SQLite database.

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Messaging

marchat – terminal chat

February 7, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, TUI

marchat is a lightweight terminal chat with real-time messaging over WebSockets, optional E2E encryption, and a flexible plugin ecosystem.

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Chess

Fastchess – manage chess games with engines

February 6, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Games

Fastchess is a command-line tool designed to manage and orchestrate chess games between engines.

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Notes

Basalt – TUI program to manage Obsidian notes

February 6, 2026 Steve Emms Productivity, TUI

Basalt is a TUI application to manage Obsidian vaults and notes directly from the terminal.

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Text Editor

Frogmouth – Markdown browser for the terminal

February 6, 2026 Steve Emms Productivity, TUI

Frogmouth is a Markdown viewer / browser for your terminal, built with Textual.

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Diff Tools

riff – wrapper around diff

February 6, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Riff is a wrapper around diff that highlights which parts of lines have changed.

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