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System administration

octoDNS – manage DNS across multiple providers

July 23, 2025 Steve Emms Internet

octoDNS provides a set of tools and patterns that make it easy to manage your DNS records across multiple providers.

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Game Tools

Hurry Curry! – multiplayer co-op cooking game

July 23, 2025 Steve Emms Games

Hurry Curry! is a cooperative multiplayer game. You work at a restaurant accepting orders, cooking various dishes and serving meals.

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Raspberry Pi 5 Desktop Mini PC: Good value compared to an Intel N100 Mini PC?

July 23, 2025 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

A question I get asked a fair bit is whether the Raspberry Pi 5 represents good value to purchase as a desktop PC.

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Musical instruments

Tempo – metronome for musicians

July 23, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Tempo is a reliable metronome application designed for musicians of all levels. Built with modern GTK4 and Libadwaita

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Photo Management

10 Best Free and Open Source Linux Photo Management Software

July 23, 2025 Steve Emms Graphics, Roundup

Photo management software is a type of computer application that helps users to organize their digital image collection.

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Video Editing

mpv-mpris – plugin for mpv

July 22, 2025 Steve Emms Multimedia

mpv-mpris is a plugin for mpv which allows control of the player using standard media keys.

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OpenCommit – auto-generate meaningful commits in a second

July 22, 2025 Steve Emms Programming, Scientific

OpenCommit lets you auto-generate meaningful commits.There are multiple optional flags that can be used with the oco command.

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fancy-cat – PDF reader for terminal emulators

July 22, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, TUI

fancy-cat is a PDF reader for terminal emulators using the Kitty image protocol.

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5 Useful Free and Open Source Linux Service Discovery Tools

July 22, 2025 Steve Emms Internet, Roundup

Service discovery is the process of automatically finding devices and services on a computer network.

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System

µgRD – generate a custom initramfs environment

July 21, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

µgRD is designed to generate a custom initramfs environment to boot the system which built it.

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System

psfu – do stuff with processes

July 21, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

psfu currently has one major command called tree which is used to show or modify all processes in that process tree.

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Firefly AIBOX 3588S

Firefly AIBOX-3588S Embedded Fanless PC Running Linux – Introduction

July 21, 2025 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

This is the first in a series of articles looking at the Firefly AIBOX 3588S embedded fanless ARM-based mini PC.

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Security

TruffleHog – discovery, classification, validation, and analysis tool

July 21, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Security

TruffleHog is a secret scanning engine that detects and helps resolve exposed secrets across your entire tech stack.

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Character Map

Runemaster – character map app for GNOME

July 20, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Unleash the magic of Unicode characters with Runemaster.

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Machine Learning

BrickGPT – generates a toy brick structure

July 20, 2025 Steve Emms Scientific

BrickGPT generates a toy brick structure from a user-provided text prompt in an end-to-end manner.

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Git Clients

Forge Sparks – get Git forges notifications

July 20, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Programming

Forge Sparks is a simple notifier app with support for Github, GitLab, Gitea and Forgejo.

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YouTube

ytcc – keep track of your favorite playlists on YouTube

July 20, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

ytcc is a command line tool to keep track of your favorite playlists on YouTube and many other places.

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System administration

Designate – multi-tenant DNSaaS service

July 20, 2025 Steve Emms Internet

Designate is a multi-tenant DNSaaS service for OpenStack. It provides a REST API with integrated Keystone authentication.

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Essential Utilities to Boost Producitivity

Reminduck – simple reminder app

July 19, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

Reminduck is a simple reminder app made to be quick and easy. Reminduck focuses on simple or recurrent reminders

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DomainMOD – manage your domains and other internet assets in a central location

July 19, 2025 Steve Emms Internet

DomainMOD is a self-hosted open source application used to manage your domains and other Internet assets in a central location

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