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Category: Utilities

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wger is a fitness and nutrition manager

June 8, 2025 Steve Emms Scientific, Utilities, Web Apps

wger is a fitness and nutrition manager, with a comprehensive list of exercises and ingredients.It can be self-hosted.

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chezmoi manages your dotfiles across multiple machines

June 7, 2025 Steve Emms Utilities

chezmoi helps you manage your personal configuration files (dotfiles, like ~/.gitconfig) across multiple machines.

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Compositing Window Managers

Waycheck shows Wayland compositor details

June 6, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Waycheck is a simple Qt6 application that displays all of the Wayland protocols that your compositor supports and doesn’t support.

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Antidote is a Zsh implementation of the legacy Antibody plugin manager

June 5, 2025 Steve Emms Utilities

Antidote is a feature-complete Zsh implementation of the legacy Antibody plugin manager, which in turn was derived from Antigen.

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zgenom – lightweight and fast plugin manager for Zsh

June 4, 2025 Steve Emms Utilities

Zgenom provides you simple commands for managing plugins. It installs your plugins and generates a static init script that will source them

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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft Process Explorer

June 4, 2025 Steve Emms System Software, Utilities

Process Explorer is a task manager and system monitor It provides the functionality of Windows Task Manager along with additional features.

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Best Free GUI Diff Tools

jdDiff is a graphical cross platform diff viewer

June 4, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

jdDiff shows the difference between two files or two directories.

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zplug is a next-generation plugin manager for zsh

June 3, 2025 Steve Emms Utilities

zplug has a good feature set including lazy loading, branch/tag/commit support, and many more.

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Shell prompt

ZSH Quickstart Kit

June 2, 2025 Steve Emms Utilities

ZSH Quickstart Kit is a simple ZSH quickstart for using ZSH, zgenom, oh-my-zsh and a curated list of extra plugins.

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Pins creates and edits app shortcuts

June 2, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Pins allows you to customize your app menu by editing .desktop files. It’s written in C.

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Shell prompt

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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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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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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Notes

Plover is a stenography engine

May 29, 2025 Steve Emms Utilities

Plover is software intended to bring realtime stenographic technology not just to stenographers.

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Screen Capture

Kasasa snips and pins useful information

May 27, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Clip and pin what’s important to a small floating window, so you don’t have to switch between windows or workspaces repeatedly.

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Font Tools

Ygt is a graphical TypeType hinting program

May 25, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Ygt is a Python app for hinting TrueType fonts. It is built to be fast, flexible, and open source.

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Art

28 Delightful Free and Open Source ASCII Art Tools

May 24, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics, Roundup, Utilities

ASCII art is a graphic design technique that relies primarily on computers for presentation and consists of pictures.

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Dot Matrix creates glyphs

May 24, 2025 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI, Utilities

Dot Matrix is a GUI tool which acts as glyph playground of creativity from simple lines.

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