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xt7-player-mpv – mpv GUI

January 18, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

xt7-player-mpv aims to be an (in)complete graphical interface to mpv, focused on usability.

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termui – Golang terminal dashboard

January 18, 2026 Steve Emms Programming, TUI

termui is a cross-platform and fully-customizable terminal dashboard and widget library built on top of termbox-go.

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uosc – minimalist proximity-based UI for mpv

January 18, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia

uosc is a feature-rich minimalist proximity-based UI for mpv.

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tview – terminal UI library with rich, interactive widgets

January 18, 2026 Steve Emms Programming, TUI

tview is a Go package provides commonly used components for terminal based user interfaces.

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3 Best Free and Open Source R Static Site Generators

January 18, 2026 Eilidih Parris Internet, Roundup, Web Apps

To provide an insight into the quality of software that is available, we have compiled a list of 3 best R static site generators.

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Coding

RQ – simple Python library

January 18, 2026 Steve Emms Programming

RQ (Redis Queue) is a simple Python library for queueing jobs and processing them in the background with workers.

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Application Launchers

zlaunch – application launcher and window switcher

January 18, 2026 Steve Emms Desktop

zlaunch is a fast application launcher and window switcher for Linux Wayland, built with GPUI.

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Git Clients

diffnav – Git diff pager

January 18, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

diffnav is a git diff pager based on delta but with a file tree, à la GitHub.

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fpm – Fortran Package Manager

January 17, 2026 Steve Emms Programming, Utilities

Fortran Package Manager is a package manager and build system for Fortran. It aims to improve the user experience of Fortran programmers.

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CPU

Brrtfetch – animated system information fetcher

January 17, 2026 Steve Emms CLI

Brrtfetch displays the user specified GIF rendered as animated ASCII art alongside the system information from your favourite fetcher.

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CSS

Bubble Tea – build terminal apps

January 17, 2026 Steve Emms Programming, TUI

Bubble Tea offers a fun, functional and stateful way to build terminal apps.

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4 Useful Free and Open Source Kotlin Linters

January 17, 2026 Steve Emms Programming, Roundup

This article picks some useful tools to help you fix Kotlin code. Only free and open source software is eligible for inclusion.

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Screen Capture

HyprSnipper – snipping tool for Hyprland

January 17, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

HyprSnipper is a Qt-based screenshot tool designed specifically for Hyprland. It’s written in Python.

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YouTube

yt-x – browse YouTube from the terminal

January 17, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia, TUI

yt-x lets you browse YouTube from your terminal. Plus other sites yt-dlp supports.

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Network

Karing – proxy utility

January 17, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Internet

Karing is billed as a simple and powerful proxy utility. It’s written in Dart.

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Backup

11 Best Free and Open Source Linux Simple Backup Software

January 17, 2026 Steve Emms Roundup, System Software, Utilities

We recommend home users install software that hides the complexity of doing backups. Here’s our verdict on open source solutions.

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data analytics

Yōzefu – explore data of a Kafka cluster

January 17, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Internet, TUI

Yōzefu is an interactive terminal user interface (TUI) application for exploring data of a kafka cluster.

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Text Editor

aretext – minimalist text editor

January 17, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, TUI

aretext is a minimalist text editor with vim-compatible key bindings.

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Password manager

passcualito – command-line password manager

January 17, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

passcualito is a simple command-line password manager for Linux that’s written in the Go programming language.

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Documentation

rip – fuzzy find and kill processes

January 17, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, TUI, Utilities

rip is a utility that lets you fuzzy find and kill processes from your terminal.

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