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kplay – inspect messages in a Kafka topic

August 19, 2025 Steve Emms Utilities

kplay (short for “kafka-playground”) lets you inspect messages in a Kafka topic in a simple and deliberate manner.

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Selection of utilities

Moulti – assign visual collapsible blocks

August 19, 2025 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

Moulti enables you to assign the numerous lines emitted by your scripts to “steps”, i.e. visual, collapsible blocks

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fooyin

fooyin v0.9.1 is released – the best open source music player gets better

August 19, 2025 Luke Baker GUI, Multimedia, Reviews

fooyin is a customisable music player that strongly resembles foobar2000. The new release adds some neat features and improvements.

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Files

nbpreview – terminal viewer for Jupyter notebooks

August 19, 2025 Steve Emms Documents

nbpreview is a terminal viewer for Jupyter notebooks. It’s like cat for ipynb files. It’s written in Python.

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OpenAPI Linter – CLI and a Node.js library

August 18, 2025 Eilidih Parris CLI, Programming

OpenAPI Linter is a CLI and a Node.js library to validate OpenAPI specification. It is based on Spectral by Stoplight with OpenAPI rules with additional rules. The goal of Linter is to check whether the spec contains enough information to

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Cherrybomb – audit, validate, run API tests

August 18, 2025 Eilidih Parris CLI, Programming

Cherrybomb helps prevent incorrect code implementation. It works by validating and testing your API using an OpenAPI file.

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ASROCK NUC BOX-255H Running Linux

ASRock Industrial NUC BOX-255H Running Linux: Stable Diffusion

August 18, 2025 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

In the series I’m going to explore the GPU capabilities of the machine covering AI and gaming. Let’s start with deep learning.

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cambd – Cambridge dictionary CLI app

August 18, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

cambd is a Cambridge dictionary cli app which can automatically suggests related words when a typo is detected.

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Files

DF-SHOW – Directory File Show

August 18, 2025 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

DF-SHOW (Directory File Show) is a Unix-like rewrite of some of the applications from Larry Kroeker’s DF-EDIT

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Comic Books

ACBR – comic book reader and converter

August 18, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Other

ACBR is a cross-platform comic book reader and converter.

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gofmt – formats Go programs

August 17, 2025 Eilidih Parris CLI, Programming

Gofmt formats Go programs. It uses tabs for indentation and blanks for alignment. Alignment assumes that an editor is using a fixed-width font.

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Role-Play Games

Threadbare – story-drive collaborative game

August 17, 2025 Steve Emms Games

Threadbare is a story-driven, collaborative game where players don’t just explore a world—they co-create it.

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Sudoku

Sudoku – solve Sudoku puzzles

August 17, 2025 Steve Emms Games, GUI

Sudoku is a modern Sudoku app focused on delivering a clean, distraction-free experience. Designed with simplicity and comfort in mind.

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Task Manager

KomoDo is a todo manager

August 17, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

KomoDo is a todo manager that uses todo.txt specification. It parses any compliant todo.txt files.

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golangci-lint – fast Go linters runner

August 17, 2025 Eilidih Parris CLI, Programming

golangci-lint runs linters in parallel, uses caching, supports YAML configuration, integrates with all major IDEs.

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Programming

godl – Godot version manager

August 16, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, Programming

godl is a version manager for Godot, written in QML/C++ with the Qt Quick libraries.

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Game Tools

Hex Colordle – color guessing game

August 16, 2025 Steve Emms Games

Hex Colordle is a game where you need to find the hexadecimal value of the color shown on screen.

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Machine Learning

Holloway’s Upscaler – image and video upscaling

August 16, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics, Scientific

A consolidation of AI image/video upscaling product for a working CLI-friendly image and video upscaling program.

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QSerial – cross-platform serial port utility

August 16, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

QSerial is a cross platform serial port utility with batteries included.

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System administration

TinyDNS – tiny DNS server

August 16, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

TinyDNS is a tiny DNS server with simple JSON config written in C.

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