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ncgopher is a gopher, gemini and finger client

June 2, 2025 Steve Emms Internet, TUI

ncgopher is a gopher, gemini and finger client for the modern internet. It’s written in the Rust language.

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Video-Emulators

dgb-n64 is an experimental low-level N64 emulator

June 2, 2025 Steve Emms Emulators, Games

dgb-n64 is a experimental low-level N64 emulator written in C and a bit of C++. It’s under heavy development and not ready for prime time.

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Antigen is a plugin manager for zsh

June 1, 2025 Steve Emms Utilities

Antigen is a small set of functions that help you easily manage your shell (zsh) plugins, called bundles.

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Bouncer chooses the correct firewall zone for wireless connections

June 1, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Internet, Security

When you connect to a new network, Bouncer will open a window prompting you for what kind of network (e.g. home, public, work) it is.

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Stream Overlay provides browser overlays on your screen

June 1, 2025 Steve Emms Utilities

Stream Overlay provides borderless, transparent, click-through browser windows for streaming.

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Photobooth is photobooth software for the Raspberry Pi and PC

June 1, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Photobooth is software is intended to run on a Raspberry Pi 2 and upwards, but it can run on any Linux PC.

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Role-Play Games

FaFa Runner is a RPG game with a seamless gaming experience

June 1, 2025 Steve Emms Games

Developed using Flutter and the Flame engine, this RPG delivers a seamless gaming experience with stunning visual effects.

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Best Free and Open Source Software: May 2025 Updates

June 1, 2025 Steve Emms Roundup, Software

May 2025 updates to the largest compilation of recommended free and open source software available for Linux.

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Automation

Compress is text compression for generating keyboard expansions

May 31, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

Compress is a tool for automatically creating typing shortcuts from a corpus of your own writing.

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Video-Emulators

Supermodel emulates Sega’s Model 3 arcade platform

May 31, 2025 Steve Emms Emulators, Games

Supermodel emulates Sega’s Model 3 arcade platform, allowing you to play a number of ground-breaking arcade classics on your PC.

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Automation

espansoGUI is a GUI for espanso

May 31, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

espansoGUI is a GUI for espanso created with Rust and Iced.

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Writing Tools

Writernote takes notes in an intelligent way

May 31, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

Writernote allows you to take notes in an intelligent way. Record audio as you write, and listen to it again seeing what you have written.

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Font Tools

6 Best Free and Open Source Font Editors

May 31, 2025 Steve Emms Roundup, Utilities

This article focuses on the finest font editors. Linux users may not have a plethora of fonts, but there are many lovely and usable fonts.

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Shell prompt

slimzsh is a small, usable configuration for Zsh

May 31, 2025 Steve Emms Utilities

slimzsh is a small, usable configuration for Zsh. It enables all the awesomeness of Zsh with a small and tidy config.

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Shell prompt

Oh My Posh is a prompt theme engine for any shell

May 30, 2025 Steve Emms Utilities

Oh My Posh is a custom prompt engine for any shell that has the ability to adjust the prompt string with a function or variable.

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Manage creative assets

Gradia lets you quickly edit images for social media

May 30, 2025 Steve Emms Graphics

Gradia allows you to quickly modify screenshots of application windows to put them better in context.

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Network

Elpher is a gopher and gemini client for Emacs

May 30, 2025 Steve Emms Internet, TUI

Elpher is an Emacs-based gopher client with the goal of providing an intuitive and pleasant way for Emacs users

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Photo collection

Tropy – explore your research photos

May 30, 2025 Steve Emms Graphics

Tropy is a a tool that shortens the path from finding archival sources to writing about them.

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Raspberry Pi 5 Desktop Mini PC: Increase Swap Memory Size

May 30, 2025 Steve Emms Hardware, Reviews, Tutorials

In this article I explain how to increase the swap file. This helps performance on a Raspberry Pi 5 with 4GB of RAM or less.

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GCompris

Flood It is a simple puzzle game

May 30, 2025 Steve Emms Games

Flood It is a game with the simple premise of flooding the entire board with one color in the least amount of moves possible.

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