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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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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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Fint – keyboard-driven graphical file manager

January 29, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Web Apps

Fint is a keyboard-driven Linux file manager with three-column navigation, media previews, custom themes, tabs and file-picker modes.

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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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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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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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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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dmitui – TUI version of dmidecode

January 28, 2026 Steve Emms System Software, TUI

dmitui is a TUI (Text User Interface) version that allows for easy navigation between sections, unlike dmidecode.

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Xtop – TUI system monitor

January 28, 2026 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

Xtop is a Rust terminal system monitor with live resource graphs, process search, custom layouts, themes and configurable alerts.

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Music

Hummingbird – modern music player

January 28, 2026 Luke Baker GUI, Multimedia, Reviews

Hummingbird is a cross-platform Rust-based music player with basic functionality already implemented. It’s worth checking out!

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Music Streaming

Kino – media browser for Plex and Jellyfin servers

January 28, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia, TUI

Kino is a fast terminal client for browsing and playing media from Plex and Jellyfin servers.

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Media Center

jfsh – terminal-based client for Jellyfin

January 28, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia, TUI

jfsh is a terminal-based client for Jellyfin that lets you browse your media library and play videos via mpv. It’s inspired by jftui.

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Video Conversion

video-compare – split-screen video comparison tool

January 28, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

video-compare is a split-screen video comparison tool, utilizing FFmpeg libraries and SDL2.

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Circuit board

Xfetch – system information tool

January 28, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

Xfetch is a cross-platform system information fetching tool inspired by fastfetch and neofetch, written in Rust.

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Coding

pretty-yaml – human-readable YAML-serialized data

January 28, 2026 Eilidih Parris Programming

pretty-yaml (or pymail) is a PyYAML-based python module to produce a bit more pretty and human-readable YAML-serialized data.

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