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Personal Finance

ezBookkeeping – self-hosted personal finance application

June 11, 2026 Steve Emms Financial

ezBookkeeping is a self-hosted personal finance application that helps users record everyday income and expenses.

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Art

32 Delightful Free and Open Source ASCII Art Tools

June 11, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics, Roundup, Utilities

ASCII art is a graphic design technique that relies primarily on computers for presentation and consists of pictures.

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Security

mquire – Linux memory forensics and analysis tool

June 11, 2026 Steve Emms Security

mquire is a Linux memory forensics and analysis tool for querying kernel memory dumps using SQL.

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Coding

PY4WEB – Python web framework

June 11, 2026 Steve Emms Programming

PY4WEB is a Python web framework designed for building database driven web applications with less boilerplate.

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Cloud

KDash – terminal-based Kubernetes dashboard

June 11, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, TUI

KDash is a terminal-based Kubernetes dashboard. Inspect cluster resources, view logs, follow metrics, switch contexts, and more.

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Personal Finance

Sure – personal finance app

June 10, 2026 Steve Emms Financial

Sure is a community-maintained personal finance and wealth management application

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Frappe – web application framework

June 10, 2026 Steve Emms Programming

Frappe Framework is a low-code, metadata-driven web application framework for building database-backed business applications.

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Cloud

Headlamp – web interface for Kubernetes

June 10, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, Web Apps

Headlamp is a web interface for Kubernetes that helps you inspect, manage, and troubleshoot clusters from a graphical dashboard.

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Robyn – Python web framework designed for high performance

June 10, 2026 Steve Emms Programming

Robyn is a Python web framework designed for high performance, combining an async Python API with a Rust runtime.

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Coding

7 Best Free and Open Source Java Linter Tools

June 10, 2026 Steve Emms Programming, Roundup

This article picks some useful tools to help you fix Java code.

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PELADN-WO4

PELADN WO4 5600H Mini PC: Fan Noise

June 10, 2026 Steve Emms Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

PELADN WO4 5600H noise tested under Linux. Idle operation is excellent, but rapid fan ramping and heavy-load noise make acoustics a clear compromise.

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Selection of utilities

DigiSurf – TUI signal waveform viewer

June 10, 2026 Steve Emms Scientific, TUI

DigiSurf is designed for viewing and analyzing digital signal waveforms from Value Change Dump files, with interactive navigation.

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Selection of utilities

Fnf – interactive fuzzy finder for the terminal

June 10, 2026 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

Fnf is a fork of fzy, adding features such as 256 and 24-bit color support, configurable padding, and multi-selection.

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Image Viewers

45 Best Free and Open Source Graphical Image Viewers

June 10, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, Roundup, Utilities

Images are part of every day internet usage. We recommend the finest free and open source graphical image viewers available for Linux.

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Selection of utilities

csvlens – command-line CSV file viewer

June 10, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, TUI, Utilities

csvlens is a command-line CSV file viewer that works like less, but is designed specifically for tabular data.

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DJ

12 Best Free and Open Source Linux Software for DJs

June 10, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia, Roundup

If you’re starting out as a DJ, you’ll probably want to try free software, as proprietary solutions can be very expensive. Fortunately, Linux has useful software for DJs.

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Finance

Econumo – self-hostable personal and family finance application

June 10, 2026 Steve Emms Financial, Web Apps

Econumo is a self-hostable personal and family finance application for tracking money across accounts, currencies, and budgets.

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Dashboard

Apache HertzBeat – observability platform

June 10, 2026 Steve Emms System Software

HertzBeat is an observability platform that brings monitoring, log collection, alerting, notification delivery, and status page creation.

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Chat

13 Best Free and Open Source Linux Usenet Tools

June 9, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, Roundup

Usenet is a worldwide distributed Internet discussion system. We recommend the best free and open source Usenet tools.

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Dashboard

Yet Another Status Page – self-hosted status page application

June 9, 2026 Steve Emms System Software

Yet Another Status Page is a self-hosted status page application built with Next.js and Payload CMS.

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