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LinNote – keyboard-driven scratchpad

January 27, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

LinNote is a fast, keyboard-driven scratchpad for Linux. It’s built for KDE Plasma with Qt6.

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Arsse – Advanced RSS Environment

January 27, 2026 Steve Emms Internet

The Arsse is a news aggregator server, written in PHP, which implements multiple synchronization protocols.

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Stopwatch

pomoru – minimalist Pomodoro TUI

January 27, 2026 Steve Emms Productivity, TUI

pomoru combines a terminal Pomodoro timer and persistent task list with configurable breaks, notifications and status bar integration.

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Wiki Engines

Wiki-Go – flat-file wiki

January 26, 2026 Steve Emms Web Apps

Wiki-Go is a flat-file wiki with Markdown, hierarchical pages, full-text search, revision history and Kanban boards for documentation.

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CPU

pfetch – system information tool

January 26, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

pfetch is a pretty system information tool written in POSIX sh.

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bkmr – CLI knowledge management system

January 26, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity, Utilities

bkmr is a fast, feature-rich command-line tool that extends bookmark management, snippet handling, markdown rendering, script execution and more.

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tcpulse – load generator

January 26, 2026 Steve Emms Internet

tcpulse is a concurrent TCP/UDP load generator with fine-grained, flow-level control over connection establishment and data transfer.

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daph – terminal-based music player

January 26, 2026 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews, TUI

daph is a terminal-based music player for Linux. It’s written in the popular Rust language and published under an open source license.

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Stopwatch

Tomat – Pomodoro timer for status bars

January 26, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity

Tomat is a terminal Pomodoro timer for Linux and macOS with status bar integration, configurable intervals, alerts and automation hooks.

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Audio Analyzers

Soundscope – terminal audio analysis and loudness metering

January 26, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia, TUI

Soundscope analyses recordings and live audio through terminal displays for waveforms, FFT spectra, LUFS loudness and true peak levels.

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Kafka – distributed event streaming platform

January 26, 2026 Steve Emms Internet

Apache Kafka is a distributed event streaming platform for high-performance data pipelines, streaming analytics, data integration.

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Coding

BugStalker – debugger for Rust applications

January 26, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

BugStalker is a Linux debugger for Rust applications with breakpoints, Tokio inspection, rich type views and editor integration.

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Network

AWSM – AWS manager

January 26, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

AWSM is billed as a powerful CLI tool to simplify working with AWS profiles, credentials, and sessions.

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Education

Relational – educational tool for relational algebra

January 26, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Education, GUI

Relational is an educational tool to provide a workspace for experimenting with relational algebra, an offshoot of first-order logic.

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whatstyle – find a code format style

January 25, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

whatstyle finds a code format style that fits given source files.

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Video Editing

VideoCut – lossless video cutter

January 25, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

VideoCut is a MP2/MP4 Cutter for Linux on base of mpv and ffmpeg. Cutting is lossless, the target file will not be reencoded.

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Chat

Frolic – modified F-Chat client

January 25, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Internet

Frolic is an F-Chat client developed for simplicity and stability. It’s based on the feature set of the legacy client Rising

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Magical Potions

Vipster – powerful editor for molecular structures

January 25, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Scientific

VIsual Periodic STructure EditoR (Vipster) is a fast and easy to use graphical editor for periodic atomistic simulations.

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Data Science

DAMASK – Düsseldorf Advanced Material Simulation Kit

January 25, 2026 Steve Emms Scientific

DAMASK is a unified multiphysics crystal plasticity simulation package.

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Linux Distributions

AfagOS – Linux distribution

January 25, 2026 Erik Karlsson Distro

AfagOS is a Linux distribution that is similar to AgarimOS, but with a more vanilla experience.

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