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JuMP – domain-specific modeling language for mathematical optimization

January 30, 2026 Eilidih Parris Programming

JuMP is a modeling language and collection of supporting packages for mathematical optimization in Julia.

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Gruyère – view and kill processes listening on ports

January 30, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, TUI

Gruyère is a tiny TUI program for viewing and killing processes listening on ports.

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BookLore – organize and manage your book collection

January 30, 2026 Steve Emms Web Apps

BookLore is a powerful, self-hosted web application designed to organize and manage your personal book collection with elegance and ease.

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PDF

miro – native PDF viewer with configurable keybindings

January 30, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, GUI

miro is a PDF viewer with Vim-style navigation, dark mode, document search, bookmarks, annotations and support for multiple tabs.

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Coding

yam – formatter for YAML

January 30, 2026 Erik Karlsson CLI, Programming

yam is a little formatter for YAML written in the Go programming language.

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jolt – terminal-based battery and energy monitor

January 30, 2026 Steve Emms System Software, TUI

jolt provides real-time insights into power consumption, process energy usage, and battery health—all in a clean, themeable TUI.

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gump – smarter cd command

January 29, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

gump is a directory jumper using frecency. Type directory fragments, land where you meant.

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Framework

iocraft – craft CLIs, TUIs, and text-based IO

January 29, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming, TUI

iocraft is a library for crafting beautiful text output and interfaces for the terminal or logs.

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rovr – post-modern terminal file explorer

January 29, 2026 Steve Emms Productivity, TUI

rovr is a modern, customizable, and aesthetically pleasing terminal file explorer.

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Framework

tui-input – library supporting multiple backends

January 29, 2026 Steve Emms Programming, TUI

tui-input is a TUI input library supporting multiple backends. This crate can be used with tui-rs and ratatui.

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Smartphone

Volla Phone Quintus running Volla OS: Introduction to the Series

January 29, 2026 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Phone, Reviews

This series looks at Volla OS, an Android operating system which has been de-googled. All your data is yours.

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Files

hygg – Vim-inspired document reader for the terminal

January 29, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, TUI

hygg is a keyboard-driven document reader for PDF, EPUB and other formats with persistent bookmarks, document search and optional syncing.

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File Managers

Fint – keyboard-driven GUI file manager

January 29, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Web Apps

Fint is billed as a high-performance, keyboard-driven GUI file manager for Linux, combining TUI efficiency with GUI media capabilities.

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Fonts

0xProto – programming font focused on source code legibility

January 29, 2026 Steve Emms Utilities

0xProto is a programming font focused on source code legibility. 0xProto is free and open source.

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csscss – CSS redundancy analyzer

January 29, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

csscss will parse any CSS files you give it and let you know which rulesets have duplicated declarations.

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Coding

libfyaml – fully-featured YAML 1.2 and JSON parser/writer

January 29, 2026 Eilidih Parris Programming

libfyaml is a fully-featured YAML 1.2 and JSON parser/writer with zero-copy operation and no artificial limits.

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Music

mopidy – extensible music server

January 29, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia

Mopidy is an extensible music server written in Python with extension support.

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Framework

Crossterm – terminal manipulation library

January 28, 2026 Steve Emms Programming

Crossterm is a pure-rust, terminal manipulation library that makes it possible to write cross-platform text-based interfaces.

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Graphics

todds – CPU-based DDS texture encoder

January 28, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

todds is a CPU-based DDS texture encoder optimized for fast batch conversions with high encoding quality.

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Framework

Zaz – terminal manipulation library

January 28, 2026 Steve Emms Programming, TUI

Zaz is a terminal manipulation library for Rust and C/FFI bindings for other languages.

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