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LXMusic

LXMusic – music player designed for the minimalist

January 20, 2020 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews, Software

LXMusic is a music player designed for the minimalist. It’s written in the C programming language, and uses GTK+.

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musical-notes

Melody – music player written in Vala

January 13, 2020 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews, Software

Melody is a music player designed for elementary OS but runs on other Linux distributions. Luke puts Melody under the microscope.

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conrad – conferences and meetups on your terminal

January 6, 2020 Steve Emms CLI, Education, Reviews

conrad is a free and open source command-line tool designed to help you track conferences and meetups. The tool is written in Python.

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Utilities

Excellent Utilities: exa – replacement for ls

December 30, 2019 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software, Utilities

exa is a replacement for the venerable ls command. exa sports more features and arguably better defaults than ls.

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Linux Candy: nyancat – Terminal-based Pop Tart Cat Animation

December 16, 2019 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews

nyancat is an animated, color, ANSI-text program that renders a loop of the classic Nyan Cat animation. It’s free and open source candy.

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Golly – exploring cellular automata like the Game of Life

December 13, 2019 Steve Emms Reviews, Scientific, Software

Golly is a free and open source cross-platform application for exploring Conway’s Game of Life and many other types of cellular automata.

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gorss

gorss – simple RSS/Atom reader written in Golang

December 9, 2019 Steve Emms Internet, Reviews, Utilities

gorss is a simple free and open source RSS/Atom reader. It’s written in the Golang language. The program offers support for highlighting specific words.

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Gemini

Gemini – audio player with wallpaper changer

December 2, 2019 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews

Gemini is a simple audio player that sports an integrated wallpaper changer.

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Utilities

Excellent Utilities: ripgrep – recursively search directories for a regex pattern

November 25, 2019 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software, Utilities

ripgrep is a line-oriented search tool that recursively searches your current directory for a regex pattern. It’s free and open source software.

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Linux Candy

Linux Candy: CMatrix – terminal based “The Matrix”

November 22, 2019 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software

CMatrix is an ncurses program that simulates the display from “The Matrix”, and is based on the screensaver from the movie’s website.

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