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AnalogVUMeter – classic analog stereo VU meter

February 22, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

AnalogVUMeter is a cross-platform desktop application that visually replicates a classic analog stereo VU meter (needle-style)

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CNC Software

Luban – 3-in-1 software tailor-made for Snapmaker machines

February 22, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Scientific

Luban is an easy-to-use 3-in-1 software tailor-made for Snapmaker machines.

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Zap – play sound effects

February 22, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Play all your favorite sound effects! This soundboard makes your livestreams and videocasts more entertaining.

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Git Clients

mergiraf – syntax-aware Git merge conflict resolver

February 21, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

mergiraf is a syntax-aware Git merge driver that reconciles structured code changes and falls back to ordinary merging where needed.

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YARA-X – malware pattern matching engine

February 21, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Security

YARA-X is a Rust-based malware pattern matching engine with a powerful CLI, compiled rules, detailed diagnostics and editor integration.

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cclip – clipboard manager for Wayland

February 21, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

cclip manages Wayland clipboard history with MIME selection, sensitive-data filtering, tagging, deduplication and byte-exact storage.

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BablerEdit – desktop translation editor

February 21, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Programming

BablerEdit is a modern, open-source desktop translation editor for managing multi-language localization files.

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Game Tools

Open Gamepad UI – game launcher and overlay

February 21, 2026 Steve Emms Games, GUI

Open Gamepad UI is a game launcher and overlay written using the Godot Game Engine 4 designed with a gamepad native experience in mind.

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CDROM

Rip Rip Hooray! – specialized audio CD-ripper

February 21, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

Rip Rip Hooray! is a specialized audio CD-ripper optimized for track recovery.

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Security

Kanha – web-app pentesting suite

February 21, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Security

With kanha you can do Fuzzing, Reverse dns lookup, common http response, subdomain takeover detection and many more.

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Laser cutting

CNCjs – web-based CNC controller interface

February 21, 2026 Steve Emms Scientific, Web Apps

CNCjs is a web-based CNC control interface with multi-controller support, 3D toolpath visualisation, probing, macros and remote access.

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Task Manager

Ratado – keyboard-driven terminal task manager

February 21, 2026 Steve Emms Productivity, TUI

Ratado is a fast, keyboard-driven terminal task manager built with Rust and Ratatui.

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Soundboardd – small local soundboard daemon

February 21, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

Soundboardd is a small local soundboard daemon that preloads audio files from a configuration file and plays them on request.

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Typing

typtea – terminal-based typing speed tester

February 20, 2026 Steve Emms Education, TUI

typtea is a minimal terminal-based typing speed tester with support for dozens of programming languages.

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Stopwatch

tmpo – command-line time tracker for developers

February 20, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity

tmpo tracks development time by detecting Git projects, recording milestones, exporting reports and managing locally stored entries.

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CSharpier – opinionated code formatter for C# and XML.

February 20, 2026 Steve Emms Programming

CSharpier is an opinionated code formatter for C# and XML. It parses your code and re-prints it using its own rules.

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Linux Candy: Lolcat++ is a rewrite of the popular LOLCAT

February 20, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Utilities

Lolcat++ is a rewrite of lolcat. The original is written in Ruby, whereas this rewrite is coded in the C++ language.

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ClockTemp – TUI clock

February 20, 2026 Steve Emms Productivity, TUI

ClockTemp is a TUI clock inspired by tty-clock that displays the time, date, temperature and more.

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Task Manager

corner – terminal-based task journal for developers

February 20, 2026 Steve Emms Productivity, TUI

corner captures project tasks and journal entries in Markdown, with scheduled notes, tags, searches, Vim navigation and task archiving.

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Find Duplicates

Alternatives to popular CLI tools: grep

February 20, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Software

This article spotlights alternative tools to grep, a utility that searches for patterns in each file.

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