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WineCharm – Wine GUI

July 10, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

WineCharm is a graphical user interface (GUI) application designed to simplify running and managing Windows applications on Linux using Wine.

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filepack – file hashing and verification

July 9, 2025 Steve Emms Software

filepack is a command-line file hashing and verification utility written in Rust.

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Eureka – RESTful (Representational State Transfer) service

July 9, 2025 Steve Emms Internet

Eureka is a RESTful service that is primarily used in the AWS cloud for the purpose of discovery, load balancing and failover.

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QCalcFileHash – hash calculator

July 9, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, Security

QCalcFileHash is a calculator hash: SHA1, SHA-224, SHA-256, SHA-384, SHA-512, MD5, CRC32, CRC8, and others.

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Network Security

md5 – generate / check MD5 message digest

July 9, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Security

md5 is a command line utility which generates and verifies message digests (digital signatures) using the MD5 algorithm.

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Orange Pi 5 Max Single Board Computer: Power Consumption

July 9, 2025 Steve Emms Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

In this article in the series, I look at the power consumption of the Orange Pi 5 Max and compare it to some other computers.

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ssterm – console-based serial port terminal

July 9, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

ssterm is a simple console-based serial port terminal featuring painless serial port configuration.

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Uiua is a general purpose array-oriented programming language

July 8, 2025 Steve Emms Programming

Uiua is a general purpose array-oriented programming language with a focus on simplicity, beauty, and tacit code.

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CiteBib – generate a Bibtex or LaTeX bibliography

July 8, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Education

CiteBib generates a nice Bibtex or Latex bibliography according to the document content.

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etcd – distributed reliable key-value store

July 8, 2025 Steve Emms Internet

etcd is a distributed reliable key-value store for the most critical data of a distributed system.

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