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Author: Steve Emms

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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Image of the Raspberry Pi 5

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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FICS Internet Chess Clients

OChess – chess game analysis software

June 11, 2025 Steve Emms Games, GUI

OChess is a chess game analysis software which is in an early stage of development.

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Bomb

xdémineur is a minesweeper game

June 11, 2025 Steve Emms Games

xdémineur is a minesweeper game for the X Window System.

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Utility Software

Iconic adds images on top of a folder icon

June 11, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Iconic is an application made for GNOME written in Rust to easily add images on top of folders.

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OrangePi SBC - RISC-V

Orange Pi RV2 Single Board Computer Running Linux: Introduction

June 11, 2025 Steve Emms Hardware, Reviews

The Orange Pi RV2 is a low cost RISC-V single board computer designed to be an affordable option to explore RISC-V technology.

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Typing

16 Best Free and Open Source Linux Typing Tutors

June 11, 2025 Steve Emms Education, Office, Productivity, Roundup

Typing tutor software teaches fast and accurate typing through a system of informative lessons and progress tracking.

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OrangePi SBC ARM

Orange Pi 5 Ultra and Max Single Board Computers Running Linux: Introduction

June 11, 2025 Steve Emms Hardware, Reviews

In this series, I’m exploring two ARM-based single board computers produced by Orange Pi.

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Sums is a postfix calculator designed for quick calculations

June 11, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

Sums is a postfix calculator designed for quick calculations and focused on simplicity.

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Bomb

XBomb is a minesweeper game

June 10, 2025 Steve Emms Games, GUI

XBomb is a minesweeper game where you play on a hexagonal grid or for a challenge on a triangular grid.

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Chess Engines

SlugChess – chess with Fog-of-War and shuffled officers

June 10, 2025 Steve Emms Games, GUI

SlugChess is an online digital chess variant with fog-of-war and double shuffled officers. It is both a rule set and an application.

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File Managers

20 Best Free and Open Source File Sharing Tools

June 10, 2025 Steve Emms Internet, Roundup

Many of the tools in this roundup are good replacements for AirDrop, letting you wirelessly send files to a nearby device.

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Wifi

Wifite is a Python script for auditing wireless networks

June 10, 2025 Steve Emms Security

Wifite runs existing wireless-auditing tools for you. Stop memorizing command arguments & switches.

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Pigment extracts color palettes from your images

June 10, 2025 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

Pigment extracts a palette of colors from images offline. Select the speed and accuracy by modifying the number and quality of colors.

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UPERFECT Unify B5 Portable Monitor 1080P Display Review

June 10, 2025 Steve Emms Hardware, Reviews

My findings on the UPERFECT 15.6″ VESA portable monitor 1080P display.

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10 Best Free and Open Source Web-Based Bookmark Managers

June 9, 2025 Steve Emms Internet, Roundup, Web Apps

We focus on open source web-based bookmark managers. The featured software lets you effectively manage your bookmarks for websites.

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