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Author: Steve Emms

ASROCK NUC BOX-255H Running Linux

Benchmarking the ASRock Industrial NUC BOX-255H

August 13, 2025 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

In this article I’ll benchmark the machine. The tests are run using the Phoronix Test Suite, unless otherwise stated.

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Machine Learning

Aeternum – minimal Rust image upscaler

August 13, 2025 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI, Scientific

Aeternum is a minimal Rust image upscaler using Upscayl-NCNN, with selectable models, output formats, compression and drag-and-drop input.

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Music player

mpris-ctl – control music players

August 12, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

mpris-ctl is a lightweight command-line utility for controlling MPRIS media players and displaying detailed playback metadata.

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Controller illustration

Input Remapper – change the behaviour of input devices

August 12, 2025 Steve Emms Games, GUI, Utilities

Input Remapper is an easy to use tool for Linux to change the behaviour of your input devices.

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Files

Vivify – brings your files to life in the browser

August 12, 2025 Steve Emms Documents

Vivify brings your files to life in the browser. Vivify is primarily made to render Markdown and Jupyter Notebooks.

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Radxa Rock 5T

Benchmarking the Radxa ROCK 5T Single Board Computer

August 12, 2025 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

In this article I run a series of benchmarks on the Radxa ROCK 5T single board computer and compare it to its peers.

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MMapper – play MUME

August 12, 2025 Steve Emms Games

MMapper is a graphical mapping tool that enhances the MUME (Multi-Users in Middle Earth) experience.

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Git Clients

gita – manage multiple Git repositories

August 12, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

gita manages multiple Git repositories from the terminal, showing status across projects and running Git or shell commands in batches.

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Sonar – modern desktop webhook inspector for developers

August 11, 2025 Steve Emms Programming

Sonar is a native GTK4 application that provides an intuitive interface for capturing and inspecting webhook requests during development.

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Essential System Utils

psrecord – record the CPU and memory activity of a process

August 11, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

psrecord monitors process CPU and memory usage, recording time-series data, CSV logs and plots, with optional child-process tracking.

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Game Tools

TwintailLauncher – multi-platform launcher

August 11, 2025 Steve Emms Games, GUI

Twintaillauncher is a multi-platform launcher that brings mod support, quality-of-life improvements, and advanced features to a variety of anime-styled games.

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Musical instruments

Maloja – simple self-hosted music scrobble database

August 11, 2025 Steve Emms Multimedia

Maloja is a simple self-hosted music scrobble database to create personal listening statistics.

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ASROCK NUC BOX-255H Running Linux

ASRock Industrial NUC BOX-255H Running Linux: Introduction to the series

August 11, 2025 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

This is a series of articles looking at the ASRock Industrial NUC BOX-255H. In this series, I examine every aspect of this Mini PC in detail.

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System administration

ctrld – configurable DNS forwarding proxy

August 10, 2025 Steve Emms Internet

ctrld is a highly configurable DNS forwarding proxy. All DNS protocols are supported.

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myMPD

Koito – ListenBrainz-compatible scrobbler

August 10, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Koito is a modern, themeable ListenBrainz-compatible scrobbler for self-hosters who want control over their data and insights

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PikaOS desktop (KDE)

Save Desktop – saves your Linux desktop environment configuration

August 10, 2025 Steve Emms Utilities

Save Desktop lets you save your current configuration (themes, icons, wallpapers, desktop environment settings, extensions.) with one click.

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Program code

Flogo – programming language

August 9, 2025 Steve Emms Programming

Flogo is a programming language for beginners, designed for learning programming basics within a friendly environment using flow charts.

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Selection of utilities

vet – curl sanity checker

August 9, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

vet is a command-line tool that acts as a safety net for the common but risky curl | bash pattern.

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Essential Utilities to Boost Producitivity

cxt – extract and aggregate project context

August 9, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, TUI, Utilities

cxt is a command-line tool that aggregates file and directory contents into your clipboard.

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Monitoring

tree++ – tree command with icons

August 9, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Tree is a recursive directory listing program that produces a depth indented listing of files. tree++ adds icons.

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