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Google Firebase

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Google Firebase

June 28, 2025 Steve Emms Programming, Software

Google Firebase is a platform developed by Google for creating mobile and web applications. What are the best free and open source alternatives?

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Bomb

terminal-mines is a minesweeper game for terminals

June 28, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Games

terminal-mines is an implementation of Minesweeper with an adventure mode. It is played using the keyboard instead of a mouse.

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Keyboard

openterfaceQT – app control openterface-Mini-KVM

June 27, 2025 Steve Emms System Software

openterfaceQT serves as a comprehensive control interface for openterface-Mini-KVM devices.

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JS8Call – software using the JS8 digital mode

June 27, 2025 Steve Emms Other

JS8Call is software using the JS8 Digital Mode providing weak signal keyboard to keyboard messaging to Amateur Radio Operators.

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Web Design

rwasa is a full-featured high performance web server

June 27, 2025 Steve Emms Web Apps

rwasa is billed as a full-featured, high performance, scalable web server designed to compete with the likes of nginx.

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Anti-Malware Tools

Kapitano – modern, user-friendly malware scanner

June 27, 2025 Steve Emms Security

Kapitano is a modern, user-friendly malware scanner for Linux. It’s a frontend to ClamAV.

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Chess

Fruit – chess engine

June 27, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Games

Fruit is a cross-platform UCI chess engine.

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Machine Learning

Elelem – versatile LLM client

June 26, 2025 Steve Emms Scientific

Elelem is a simple LLM client that connects seamlessly with OpenAI API compatible services.

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Xlog is a logging program for amateur radio operators

June 26, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Other

Xlog can be used for daily logging and contest. Logs are stored into a text file.

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Password manager

SpicyPass is a lightweight password manager

June 26, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, Utilities

SpicyPass is a lightweight password manager that uses state of the art cryptography and minimalist design principles.

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Ethernet

Raspberry Pi 5 Desktop Mini PC: 2.5Gbps Networking

June 26, 2025 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

In this article I explore a simple upgrade to improve the Raspberry Pi 5’s network speed.

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Web Design

H2O – optimized HTTP/1.x, HTTP/2, HTTP/3 server

June 26, 2025 Steve Emms Web Apps

H2O is a new generation HTTP server that provides quicker response to users with less CPU, memory bandwidth utilization.

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Game Tools

Faugus Launcher is a simple and lightweight app for running games using UMU-Launcher

June 26, 2025 Steve Emms Games

Faugus Launcher lets you play native Linux games, play Windows games using Proton, and use lots of useful game tools.

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Password manager

pa is a simple password manager

June 25, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

pa is a simple password manager. Encryption support is provided via age. It’s written in portable posix shell.

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Bomb

Freesweep is a console minesweeper-style game

June 25, 2025 Steve Emms Games, TUI

Freesweep is a console minesweeper-style game for Unix-like systems. The ncurses library is preferred.

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Intehill 16″ 3K Touchscreen U16ZT Portable Monitor Review

June 25, 2025 Steve Emms Hardware, Reviews

I’ve been evaluating the Intehill 16″ 3K Touchscreen Portable Monitor U16ZT with a variety of Linux devices. Here are my findings.

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Fldigi – modem program for most of the digital modes used by radio amateurs

June 25, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Other

Fldigi is a modem program for most digital modes used by radio amateurs: CW, PSK, MFSK, RTTY, Hell, DominoEX, Olivia, and more.

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Web Design

Lwan is an experimental, scalable, high performance HTTP server

June 25, 2025 Steve Emms Web Apps

Lwan is a lightweight asynchronous multi-threaded event-based web server.

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Web Design

devd is a local web server for developers

June 25, 2025 Steve Emms Web Apps

devd is a single statically compiled binary with no external dependencies, and is released for Linux, macOS and Windows.

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IDE

roobuilder – Vala and JavaScript IDE

June 24, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Programming

It’s used to build Vala Desktop applications and JavaScript UI’s using the roojs libraries (for bootstrap and classic).

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