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Wallpaper Setter

Hyprpaper – wallpaper utility designed for Hyprland

May 7, 2026 Steve Emms Utilities

hyprpaper sets wallpapers on individual Hyprland monitors, with IPC switching, image scaling and automatic rotation from wallpaper folders.

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godot – linter tool

May 6, 2026 Steve Emms Programming

godot is a Go linter that helps keep source code comments consistent by checking whether comments end with a period when needed.

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Game Tools

Dolm – Lights Out like puzzle game

May 6, 2026 Steve Emms Games, GUI

Dolm is a Lights Out-style puzzle game written in the OCaml language.

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Alaska

TermVisage – browse and view images in the terminal

May 6, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics, TUI

TermVisage is a terminal image browser offering recursive navigation, configurable grids, image animations and Kitty/iTerm2 rendering.

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Wallpaper Setter

awww – wallpaper daemon for Wayland

May 6, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

awww is a wallpaper daemon for Wayland that lets you change wallpapers at runtime without restarting the daemon.

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go-ruleguard – analysis-based Go linter that runs dynamically loaded rules

May 6, 2026 Steve Emms Programming

go-ruleguard is a Go static analysis tool that helps developers define project-specific linting checks and run them against Go code.

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Bosgame M7 Mini PC

Bosgame M7 Core Ultra 9 285H running Linux – Introduction to the Series

May 6, 2026 Steve Emms Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

This is a new series looking at the Bosgame M7 Core Ultra 9 285H mini PC running Linux.

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Linux Distributions

fomeOS – Debian-based Linux distribution designed for kiosk systems

May 6, 2026 Erik Karlsson Distro

fomeOS is a Debian-based Linux distribution designed for kiosk systems.

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Cloud storage

Kodbox – self-hosted document management and collaboration platform

May 6, 2026 Steve Emms Productivity, Web Apps

Kodbox is a self-hosted document management and collaboration platform that provides a browser-based desktop.

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Selection of utilities

nless – terminal user interface pager

May 6, 2026 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

nless is a terminal user interface pager for exploring structured and semi-structured data.

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forbidigo – Go linter for forbidding identifiers

May 6, 2026 Steve Emms Programming

forbidigo is a linter for Go code that checks source files for identifiers and expressions you want to forbid.

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Git Clients

gitonic – graphical Git client

May 6, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Programming

gitonic helps developers manage a workspace made up of multiple Git repositories from a single desktop application.

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gosec – Go Security Checker

May 6, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

gosec scans Go source for security problems using AST, SSA and taint analysis, with SARIF output, CI integration and a broad rule set.

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Diff Tools

RCompare – file and directory comparison toolkit

May 5, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, Utilities

RCompare is a file and directory comparison toolkit with a Rust core, PySide6 GUI, specialised file diffing, sync tools and CLI support.

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Selection of utilities

CPU Info – presents detailed hardware and software information

May 5, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, System Software

CPU Info is a multiplatform application that presents detailed hardware and software information for a device.

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revive – linter for Go

May 5, 2026 Steve Emms Programming

revive is a fast configurable Go linter with custom rules, TOML configuration, multiple outputs, inline directives and CI integration.

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Chemistry

GPAW – Python package for density-functional theory calculations

May 5, 2026 Steve Emms Scientific

GPAW provides density-functional theory calculations based on the projector-augmented wave method and the Atomic Simulation Environment.

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System Profilers

Big Hardware Info – view and share hardware information on Linux

May 5, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, System Software

Big Hardware Info gathers detailed system and device information.

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Minisforum MS-R1 Mini Workstation

Minisforum MS-R1 ARM Mini Workstation running Linux: Ubuntu 26.04 LTS

May 5, 2026 Steve Emms Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

In this article I’ll walk through installing Ubuntu 26.04 LTS on the Minisforum MS-R1 ARM Mini Workstation.

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Git Clients

MeGit – standalone graphical Git client

May 5, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Programming

MeGit is a standalone graphical Git client built around EGit, the Git tooling from the Eclipse ecosystem.

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