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goscrobble – simple music scrobbler daemon

August 22, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

goscrobble is a simple music scrobbler daemon for MPRIS-based music players (e.g. Spotify or tidal-hifi).

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Documentation

peep – CLI text viewer tool

August 22, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

peep is the CLI text viewer tool which runs on Linux and macOS. This tool works interactively like the less command.

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Encrypted Files

Xecrets Cli – AxCrypt compatible encryption tool

August 22, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Security

Xecrets Cli is a command line file (Cli) file encryption toolbox, runs on Linux, macOS and Windows

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process

Alternatives to popular CLI tools: ps

August 22, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Software

We explore free and open source alternatives to ps, a command that reports a snapshot of the current processes.

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Documentation Generators

ls-lint – fast file and directory name linter

August 22, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

ls-lint is an extremely fast directory and filename linter. Bring some structure to your project filesystem.

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Files

doxx – terminal-native document viewer for Word files

August 22, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, TUI

doxx is a fast, terminal-native document viewer for Word files. View, search, and export .docx documents without leaving your command line.

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CAD

17 Best Free and Open Source Linux CAD Software

August 22, 2025 Steve Emms Graphics, Roundup

Computer-aided design (CAD) is the use of computer technology for the design of objects, real or virtual.

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Security

Kingfisher – secret‑scanning and live validation tool

August 21, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Security

Kingfisher is a secret‑scanning and live validation tool combining Hyperscan regex engine with language‑aware parsing.

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dnsperf – measure performance of authoritative domain name services

August 21, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

dnsperf and resperf are tools that make it simple to gather accurate latency and throughput metrics for Domain Name Service (DNS).

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Tatuin – task aggregation tool

August 21, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity, TUI

Tatuin is a task aggregation tool that allows you to manage and track your tasks from various providers in one convenient place.

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Password Managers

FMP – password manager written in memory-safe Rust

August 21, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Forgot My Password (FMP) is a password manager that safely allows you to generate, store, and manage your passwords in encrypted vaults.

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Music player

multi-scrobbler – scrobble music

August 21, 2025 Steve Emms Multimedia

multi-scrobble is a JavaScript app to scrobble music you listened to, to Maloja, Last.fm, and ListenBrainz.

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ASROCK NUC BOX-255H Running Linux

ASRock Industrial NUC BOX-255H Running Linux: OpenVINO AI Plugins for Audacity

August 21, 2025 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Mini PC, Multimedia, Reviews

The plugins provide AI-enabled effects, generators and analyzers. I can run them on the NUC Box-255H with no internet connection needed.

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Painting tools

Top 22 Free and Open Source Linux Painting Tools

August 21, 2025 Steve Emms Graphics, Roundup

We have the selected the finest painting tools for Linux.

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Dictionary Tools

rdict – offline CLI dictionary

August 20, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

rdict is an offline CLI dictionary using data from wiktionary. It’s written in the Rust programming language.

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Sessions – focus with timed work intervals

August 20, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

Sessions is a simple visual timer application for the Pomodoro technique, helping you stay productive by breaking work into focused sessions

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Documentation

Krafna – Obsidion dataview plugin-like tool for command line

August 20, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Documents

Krafna is a terminal-based alternative to Obsidian’s Dataview plugin, allowing you to query your Markdown files using standard SQL syntax.

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Music

rescrobbled – music scrobbler daemon

August 20, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

rescrobbled is a music scrobbler daemon. It detects active media players running on D-Bus using MPRIS

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K100

Aiffro K100 All-SSD NAS running Linux: Introduction to the Series

August 20, 2025 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Mini PC, NAS, Reviews

The Aiffro K100 is an All-SSD NAS with an Intel N100 processor, 8GB of RAM, and 4 M.2 2280 NVMe slots. The machine retails for around £227.

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Foreign Languages

15 Useful Free and Open Source Linux Foreign Language Tools

August 20, 2025 Steve Emms Education, Roundup

We have identified the best of breed free and open source Linux foreign language tools. Learn a new language.

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