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Subtitle Forge – desktop application for working with subtitles across the full workflow

March 19, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Subtitle Forge is a desktop application for working with subtitles across the full workflow: extract, insert, convert, OCR, translate, and transcribe

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Beaver Notes – notes app that respects your privacy

March 19, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

Beaver Notes is a privacy-first note-taking application that helps users capture ideas, organise knowledge, and connect related notes.

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Backup software

Zerobyte – backup automation for your remote storage

March 19, 2026 Steve Emms System Software, Web Apps

Zerobyte is a self-hosted backup automation application built on top of Restic.

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Sports Games

NetStats Baseball – simulation of Major League Baseball

March 19, 2026 Steve Emms Games

NSB is a simulation of Major League Baseball. It is a client/server application written in C.

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myMPD

inori – terminal-based client for the Music Player Daemon

March 19, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia, TUI

inori provides a text user interface focused on efficient music library browsing and playback control

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Essential Utilities to Boost Producitivity

Hobbits – bit-based analysis, processing, and visualization

March 19, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Scientific

Hobbits is a multi-platform GUI application for analyzing, processing, and visualizing bitstreams.

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Proprietary App of the Week

Warp – modern terminal with an IDE-like interface and AI assistance

March 19, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity, Reviews, Utilities

Warp is a Rust-based terminal for developers and teams. It’s proprietary software.

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Console MPD Clients

Zarumet – Rust mpd client

March 19, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia, TUI

Zarumet aims to offers a polished text user interface for browsing and controlling music playback. It’s a console client for MPD.

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Podcast

16 Best Free and Open Source Graphical Podcast Tools

March 19, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia, Roundup, Utilities

To provide an insight into the quality of software that is available, we have compiled a list of 16 high quality open source GUI podcast tools. They offer an excellent way to manage and download podcasts.

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Selection of utilities

rgx – terminal regex tester

March 19, 2026 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

rgx is a terminal application for building, testing, and debugging regular expressions.

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Learning with Linux

hashcards – plain text-based spaced repetition system for flashcards

March 19, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Education, Web Apps

Hashcards is a plain-text spaced repetition flashcard application designed for users who prefer a lightweight, flexible study workflow

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Accountancy

15 Best Free and Open Source Accountancy Software

March 19, 2026 Steve Emms Financial, Roundup

Accountancy is the measurement, processing, and communication of financial and non financial information about economic entities.

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Selection of utilities

t2sz – compresses a file into a seekable zstd

March 19, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

t2sz compresses a file into a seekable zstd, splitting the file into multiple frames.

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m5rcode – modern programming language

March 19, 2026 Steve Emms Programming

m5rcode (pronounced “em-five-er-code”) is a modern programming language combining the best features of Python, C, Java, HolyC, Rust, and Ruby.

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Git Clients

keifu – TUI that visualizes Git commit graphs

March 18, 2026 Steve Emms Programming, TUI

keifu shows a colored commit graph, commit details, and a summary of changed files.

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Bluetooth

btlescan – terminal UI for scanning Bluetooth Low Energy devices

March 18, 2026 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

btlescan is a cross-platform terminal UI for scanning Bluetooth Low Energy devices, inspecting GATT services and characteristics.

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Network

Pinchtab – lightweight browser control system designed for AI agents

March 18, 2026 Steve Emms Programming

Pinchtab is a lightweight browser control system designed for AI agents. Implemented as a small Go binary.

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Bioinformatics

28 Best Free and Open Source Linux Bioinformatics Tools

March 18, 2026 Steve Emms Roundup, Scientific

This article identifies our favourite tools which are extremely useful for anyone interested in sequence analysis, molecular modelling, molecular dynamics, phylogenetic analysis and more.

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TAYGA – out-of-kernel stateless NAT64 implementation

March 18, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

TAYGA is a stateless NAT64 implementation designed to provide IPv6 connectivity to IPv4-only hosts and services.

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Selection of utilities

RepoRover – universal Linux package updater

March 18, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, System Software

RepoRover is a graphical Linux system update utility written in Go.

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