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Security

Exosphere – aggregated patch and security update reporting

February 24, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Security, TUI

Exosphere is a CLI and Text UI driven application that offers aggregated patch and security update reporting.

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GCLI – interact with GitHub and more

February 23, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

GCLI is a portable CLI tool for interacting with Git(Hub|Lab|Tea), Forgejo and Bugzilla from the command line.

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Audio

Tanin – ambient noise generator

February 23, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia, TUI

Tanin is a simple, focused TUI ambient noise generator. Focus, relax, or sleep with your favorite background sounds

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Photo collection

Annotator – image annotation tool

February 23, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

Annotator lets you annotate your images and let a picture say 1000 words.

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Text Editor

MerMark Editor – Markdown editor with Mermaid diagram support

February 23, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, GUI

MerMark Editor combines the simplicity of Markdown with the power of Mermaid diagrams in a beautiful, native desktop application.

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Chuwi CoreBook Air Plus

Chuwi CoreBook Air Plus running Linux: Hardware Review

February 23, 2026 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Laptops, Reviews

The Chuwi CoreBook Air Plus positions itself as a lightweight, mid-range productivity machine that blends premium materials with good performance.

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Accountancy

cashd – TUI for personal finance management

February 23, 2026 Steve Emms Financial, TUI

cashd is billed as a fast and cozy interactive TUI for personal finance management. It allows you to track, analyze, and gain insights into your financial transactions directly from your terminal. cashd currently supports ledger/hledger and CSV as data sources.

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Documentation

Alternatives to popular CLI tools: more

February 23, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Software, Utilities

This article spotlights alternative tools to more.

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GUI Prototyping

6 Best Free and Open Source GUI Prototyping Tools

February 23, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, Programming, Roundup

Whether it is by pure experimentation or transforming a vision into something tangible, prototypes help assist in testing and building while preserving overall design consistency.

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Documentation

Alternatives to popular CLI tools: less

February 23, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Software

This article spotlights alternative tools to less. All of the tools are free and open source and sport a command-line interface.

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Documentation

lore – less-like terminal pager

February 23, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

lore is a very basic less-like terminal pager.

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Selection of utilities

TrackAudio – Audio-For-VSTSIM ATC client

February 23, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Scientific

TrackAudio is a specialized Audio-for-VATSIM (AFV) client application designed for air traffic controllers (ATCs) on the VATSIM network

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Server

9 Best Free and Open Source Single Sign-On Software

February 23, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, Roundup

Single Sign-On is an authentication process that allows users to log in to multiple independent applications with a single set of credentials.

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Data Science

MBDyn – multibody dynamics analysis

February 23, 2026 Steve Emms Scientific

MBDyn is a general purpose Multibody Dynamics analysis software.

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CNC Software

OpenBuilds CONTROL – connect and control your CNC, Laser, Plasma or Dragknife machine

February 23, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Scientific

OpenBuilds CONTROL is a Grbl Host / Interface for all CNC style machines running Grbl.

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Security

cariddi – scanning tool

February 23, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Security

Take a list of domains, crawl urls and scan for endpoints, secrets, api keys, file extensions, tokens and more.

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Juliaup – Julia version manager

February 22, 2026 Steve Emms Programming

Juliaup is a cross-platform installer for the Julia programming language.

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Search

8 Best Free and Open Source Linux Desktop Search Engines

February 22, 2026 Steve Emms Desktop, Roundup, Utilities

Desktop search is a software application which searches the contents of computer files, rather than searching the internet.

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SQL

GizmoSQL – high-performance SQL server

February 22, 2026 Steve Emms Database

GizmoSQL is a powerful open-source SQL database engine and server powered by DuckDB and Apache Arrow Flight SQL.

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Selection of utilities

swaptop – real-time swap usage monitor

February 22, 2026 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

swaptop is a real-time swap usage monitor for Linux and Windows systems with a TUI interface.

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