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Gem of the Week

PaddleOCR – OCR and document-parsing toolkit

April 6, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, Reviews

PaddleOCR is an open-source OCR and document-parsing toolkit. It’s used to extract text and document structure from images and PDFs.

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Documentation

Alternatives to popular CLI tools: awk

April 6, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Software

This article spotlights alternative tools to awk, software specialized for textual data manipulation.

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Musical instruments

mplay – command-line music player inspired by cplay

April 6, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia, TUI

mplay is a command-line music player inspired by cplay, but with a richer terminal interface and a strong emphasis on customization.

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Webcam Tools

GNOME Cam Overlay – webcam preview as a borderless overlay

April 6, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Cam Overlay is a lightweight utility designed to add graphical overlays to video streams, for use with camera feeds and live video processing.

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Encrypted Files

Hideout – simple file encryption and decryption

April 6, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Security

Hideout provides drag-and-drop file encryption and decryption with GnuPG, password-based protection and a lightweight GTK interface.

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Monitor System

bpftop – dynamic real-time view of running eBPF programs

April 5, 2026 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

bpftop is a command-line monitoring tool developed by Netflix that provides a real-time, top-like interface for observing running eBPF programs

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S3

S3ry – interactive S3 terminal client

April 5, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Internet, TUI

S3ry is a terminal S3 client with hierarchical browsing, multipart downloads, metadata previews, presigned URLs and command-line actions.

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Audio

Noisedash – self-hostable web tool to generate ambient noises

April 5, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia, Web Apps

Noisedash is a self-hostable web application for building ambient soundscapes in the browser.

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Graphics

Domenico – create looping animated GIFs

April 5, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

Domenico is a simple FFmpeg GUI for creating high-quality looping GIFs from MP4 and MOV video files.

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Developer of the Week

Developer of the Week: Lennart Poettering

April 5, 2026 Steve Emms Blog

Lennart Poettering is one of the most consequential, polarizing, and prolific open source developers of the Linux era.

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flowR – static dataflow analyser for R

April 5, 2026 Steve Emms Programming

flowR analyses R data dependencies and control flow, offering program slicing, linting, graph views and security-oriented checks.

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arp-scan – minimalistic ARP scan tool

April 5, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

arp-scan is a command-line network discovery tool written in Rust.

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Framework

Univer – build AI-native spreadsheets

April 5, 2026 Steve Emms Office, Programming

Univer is an isomorphic full-stack framework for building and embedding spreadsheet, document, and presentation editors.

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Typesetting Tools

TexLab – LaTeX language server

April 5, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Documents, Scientific

TexLab adds LaTeX language-server features to compatible editors, including completions, diagnostics, references and build integration.

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Typesetting Tools

Tectonic – TeX and LaTeX engine

April 5, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Documents, Scientific

Tectonic compiles TeX and LaTeX into PDFs with automatic support files, reproducible bundles, Unicode fonts and automated reruns.

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Selection of utilities

RFC Reader – terminal-based viewer for IETF Request for Comments documents

April 5, 2026 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

RFC Reader is a terminal-based viewer for IETF Request for Comments documents written in Rust.

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Manga

Kitsune – libadwaita client for watching anime from AniLiberty

April 4, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Other

Kitsune is a Libadwaita client for watching anime using content provided by the AniLiberty team through its public API.

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IDE

Eclipse Theia – cloud & desktop IDE framework

April 4, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Programming

Eclipse Theia is an extensible framework for building full-featured cloud and desktop IDEs and developer tools with modern web technologies.

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Electronic circuit

GeckoCIRCUITS – circuit simulator optimized for power electronics

April 4, 2026 Steve Emms Scientific

GeckoCIRCUITS is a circuit simulation environment designed specifically for power electronics applications.

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Internet Radio

Receiver continues to go from strength to strength

April 4, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Internet, Multimedia, Reviews

This internet radio app is definitely worth a download.

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