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BudgetBee – personal finance manager

June 1, 2026 Steve Emms Financial, Web Apps

BudgetBee is a self-hosted personal finance manager with account tracking, loan management, transaction categorisation and spending charts.

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Family History

Fussel – static photo gallery generator

June 1, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, Web Apps

Fussel is a static photo gallery generator with nested albums, EXIF details, XMP people galleries, face overlays and watermarks.

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Finance

ExpenseOwl – self-hosted expense tracker

June 1, 2026 Steve Emms Financial, Web Apps

ExpenseOwl records household income and expenses through a self-hosted dashboard with monthly category charts and CSV import and export.

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Mixer

alsamixer – terminal-based mixer for the ALSA sound system

June 1, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia, TUI

alsamixer is an ncurses mixer for ALSA with keyboard-driven playback and capture controls, multiple sound cards, and customisable keys.

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MS-02 Ultra

Minisforum MS-02 Ultra 285HX running Linux – Dual-channel memory

June 1, 2026 Steve Emms Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

Looking at the benefits of running dual-channel memory on the Minisforum MS-02 Ultra 285HX Mini Workstation.

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SextantOS – Arch-based Linux distribution

June 1, 2026 Erik Karlsson Distro

SextantOS is an Arch-based Linux distribution built around keyboard navigation, a minimal aesthetic, and a lightweight Wayland desktop.

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Litestar – flexible ASGI web application framework

June 1, 2026 Steve Emms Programming

Litestar is an ASGI web framework with dependency injection, OpenAPI docs, controllers, validation, caching, middleware and WebSockets.

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19 Best Free and Open Source Terminal-Based SSH Frontends

June 1, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Internet, Roundup, TUI

This roundup focuses on terminal-based apps that help you manage and create SSH connections.

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Photo Gallery

Ente Photos – encrypted photo backup and gallery

June 1, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, Web Apps

Ente Photos is an encrypted photo backup and gallery service with private albums, sharing, on-device search and cross-platform clients.

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Finance

Budget Tracker TUI – terminal-based personal budget manager

June 1, 2026 Steve Emms Financial, TUI

Budget Tracker TUI helps track spending, investments, debts and monthly budgets with interactive charts and local SQLite storage.

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Linux software

Best Free and Open Source Software: May 2026 Updates

May 31, 2026 Steve Emms Software

May 2026 updates to the largest compilation of recommended free and open source software available for Linux.

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Security

Commix – Python-based penetration testing tool

May 31, 2026 Steve Emms Security

Commix investigates OS command injection flaws in web applications, using several detection techniques and configurable HTTP test requests.

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Photo Gallery

Memories – photo management for Nextcloud

May 31, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, Web Apps

Memories is a Nextcloud photo manager with timelines, albums, metadata editing, maps, video playback and optional face recognition.

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Family History

PiGallery2 – self-hosted photo gallery

May 31, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, Web Apps

PiGallery2 is a self-hosted, directory-based photo gallery with boolean search, map views, saved searches, sharing and video playback.

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Security

Dalfox – command-line security tool

May 31, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Security

Dalfox tests web applications for cross-site scripting, with parameter discovery, XSS verification, WAF detection and scan reports.

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Linux Distributions

SystemRescue – Linux system rescue toolkit

May 31, 2026 Erik Karlsson Distro

SystemRescue, formerly known as SystemRescueCd, is a Linux system rescue toolkit that runs from a bootable medium.

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Stock Market Investment Tools

StakTrakr – browser-based precious metals portfolio tracker

May 31, 2026 Steve Emms Financial, Web Apps

StakTrakr is a browser-based precious metals portfolio tracker for managing a personal stack of coins, bars, Goldbacks, Silverbacks, and more.

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Finance

Bagels – terminal-based expense tracker

May 31, 2026 Steve Emms Financial, TUI

Bagels is a terminal expense tracker with accounts, transfers, recurring transaction templates, budgets, charts and keyboard navigation.

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Pwndbg – Python-based debugger enhancement for GDB and LLDB

May 31, 2026 Steve Emms Programming

Pwndbg is a Python-based debugger enhancement for GDB and LLDB aimed at low-level software developers, reverse engineers, hardware hackers

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Personal Finance

rotki – privacy-focused cryptocurrency portfolio tracker

May 31, 2026 Steve Emms Financial

rotki is a privacy-focused cryptocurrency portfolio tracker with local encrypted storage, transaction decoding and tax accounting.

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