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Category: Utilities

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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