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Author: Steve Emms

Roguelike Games

Cataclysm: Bright Nights is a roguelike with sci-fi elements

June 15, 2025 Steve Emms Games

Cataclysm: Bright Nights is a roguelike with sci-fi elements set in a post-apocalyptic world.

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lule is a bash(y) alternative to pywal

June 15, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

lule is a bash(y) alternative to pywal by mostly using pastel to generate the full 255 colors from an image.

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Security

John the Ripper is an advanced offline password cracker

June 14, 2025 Steve Emms Security

John the Ripper is a password security auditing and password recovery tool available for many operating systems.

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Chess

Weiss is a UCI chess engine

June 14, 2025 Steve Emms Games

This is a chess engine written in C.

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Network Security

Collision checks hashes for your files

June 14, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Collision comes with a simple and clean UI to generate, compare and verify MD5, SHA-256, SHA-512, SHA-1, Blake3, CRC32 and Adler32 hashes.

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Raspberry Pi 5 Desktop Mini PC

June 14, 2025 Steve Emms Hardware, Mini PC

This is a series of articles on the Raspberry Pi 5 focusing on using this single board computer as a desktop PC.

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CHIRP – program and manage amateur radios

June 14, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Other

CHIRP is a radio programming application supporting many amateur radios, memory editing, cloning, imports, and reusable channel data.

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Dungeon

Mudlet – immersive, multiplayer, pure-text game

June 14, 2025 Steve Emms Graphics

Mudlet is a platform for gaming and enhancing game-play primarily with MUDs.

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Bomb

Mines is a puzzle game where you locate mines

June 13, 2025 Steve Emms Games, GUI

Mines (previously gnomine) is a puzzle game where you locate mines floating in an ocean using only your brain and a little bit of luck.

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BMI Calculator is a body mass index calculator

June 13, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Scientific

BMI Calculator is a body mass index calculator built with GTK4 and LibAdwaita.

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Essential Utilities to Boost Producitivity

D-Spy – explore the D-Bus

June 13, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

D-Spy is a simple tool to explore D-Bus connections.

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Ham radio

HamClock – clock and world map with extra features for amateur radio

June 13, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Other

HamClock is a kiosk-style application that provides real time space weather, radio propagation models, operating events and other information.

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Linux Candy

Linux Candy: WSelector – wallpaper selector manager

June 13, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Reviews, Utilities

WSelector is a modern GTK4/Adwaita application for browsing, downloading, and setting wallpapers. It’s written in Python.

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Password Managers

LaZagne – credentials recovery project

June 13, 2025 Steve Emms Security

LaZagne is an application used to retrieve lots of passwords stored on a local computer.

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Bomb

mynes – rolling minesweeper with islands and sonars

June 12, 2025 Steve Emms Games

mynes is a rolling minesweeper with islands and sonars. Play the classic minesweeper with many sizes and a scrolling variant with lives.

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Chess

Ethereal is a UCI chess engine

June 12, 2025 Steve Emms Games

Ethereal is a UCI-compliant chess engine operating under the alpha-beta framework, paired with a Neural Network for positional evaluations.

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Raspberry Pi 5 Desktop Mini PC: Avoid snap pollution

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

Declutter the output from df when the Pi 5 has snaps installed. Better yet, use an alternative to df for even nicer output.

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Coding

Sysprof – profile an application or entire system

June 12, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, Programming

Sysprof is a sampling profiler that uses a kernel module to generate stacktraces which are then interpreted by the userspace program “sysprof”.

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Internet Radio

PyQSO – contact logging tool for amateur radio operators

June 12, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

The graphical user interface has been developed using the GTK+ library through the PyGObject bindings.

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Schemes – create syntax highlighting schemes

June 12, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Schemes allow you to create syntax highlighting style-schemes for GtkSourceView-based applications such as Builder or Text Editor.

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