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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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Sports Games

99Managers Futsal Edition – futsal team-management game

August 20, 2025 Steve Emms Games

99Managers Futsal Edition is an open-source sports management game, where you control every aspect of a Futsal team

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Files

render – command line reader offering better readability of web pages

August 19, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Documents

reader is a lightweight tool offering better readability of web pages on the CLI. It’s written in the Go language.

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Pomolin – minimalist Pomodoro timer

August 19, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

Pomolin is billed as a simple, beautiful, and minimalist Pomodoro timer for your desktop.

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Selection of utilities

kplay – inspect messages in a Kafka topic

August 19, 2025 Steve Emms Utilities

kplay (short for “kafka-playground”) lets you inspect messages in a Kafka topic in a simple and deliberate manner.

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Selection of utilities

Moulti – assign visual collapsible blocks

August 19, 2025 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

Moulti enables you to assign the numerous lines emitted by your scripts to “steps”, i.e. visual, collapsible blocks

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Files

nbpreview – terminal viewer for Jupyter notebooks

August 19, 2025 Steve Emms Documents

nbpreview is a terminal viewer for Jupyter notebooks. It’s like cat for ipynb files. It’s written in Python.

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ASROCK NUC BOX-255H Running Linux

ASRock Industrial NUC BOX-255H Running Linux: Stable Diffusion

August 18, 2025 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

In the series I’m going to explore the GPU capabilities of the machine covering AI and gaming. Let’s start with deep learning.

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cambd – Cambridge dictionary CLI app

August 18, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

cambd is a Cambridge dictionary cli app which can automatically suggests related words when a typo is detected.

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Files

DF-SHOW – Directory File Show

August 18, 2025 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

DF-SHOW (Directory File Show) is a Unix-like rewrite of some of the applications from Larry Kroeker’s DF-EDIT

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DNA

9 Best Free and Open Source Linux Desktop Genome Browsers

August 18, 2025 Steve Emms Roundup, Scientific

There are numerous tools to browse genomes. While there’s considerable overlap in functionality, each software offers unique features or data.

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Comic Books

ACBR – comic book reader and converter

August 18, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Other

ACBR is a cross-platform comic book reader and converter.

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Role-Play Games

Threadbare – story-drive collaborative game

August 17, 2025 Steve Emms Games

Threadbare is a story-driven, collaborative game where players don’t just explore a world—they co-create it.

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Sudoku

Sudoku – solve Sudoku puzzles

August 17, 2025 Steve Emms Games, GUI

Sudoku is a modern Sudoku app focused on delivering a clean, distraction-free experience. Designed with simplicity and comfort in mind.

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Task Manager

KomoDo is a todo manager

August 17, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

KomoDo is a todo manager that uses todo.txt specification. It parses any compliant todo.txt files.

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