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BART – Computational Magnetic Resonance Imaging

January 11, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Scientific

The Berkeley Advanced Reconstruction Toolbox (BART) toolbox is an image-reconstruction framework for Computational Magnetic Resonance Imaging.

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WebRTC

mux-media – CLI utility for muxing media

January 11, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

mux-media is a CLI utility for muxing media (e.g. video, audio, subtitles).

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Text Editor

jrnlc – plain-text terminal journal

January 10, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Documents

jrnlc is a personal project built to be simple, fast, and predictable. It stores journal entries in a plain-text file

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Coding

intentrace – strace with intent

January 10, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

intentrace is a strace. It works similarly to strace in that it intercepts and records system calls when a process issues them

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Photo collection

ODiff – native image comparison tool

January 10, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, GUI

ODiff is a fast native image comparison tool. It compares the visual difference between 2 images in milliseconds.

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Furtherance – private time tracking

January 10, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

Furtherance records tasks, projects, rates and tags, with editable time history, Pomodoro intervals and optional device synchronisation.

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Whatsit – lightweight WhatsApp desktop client

January 10, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Internet

Whatsit brings WhatsApp Web to KDE and other Linux desktops with persistent logins, tray notifications and browser link handling.

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Hammer – story editor

January 10, 2026 Steve Emms Software

Hammer is a Linux story editor with scene organisation, rich notes, timelines, global search, draft comparisons, and flexible exports.

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Groupware

Tithon – IRC client

January 10, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Internet

Tithon is a modern, cross-platform IRC client that combines the power of IRC with a clean desktop interface.

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Vector Graphics

BinVec – convert raster graphics into vector graphics

January 10, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

BinVec is a graphical program that converts raster graphics into vector graphics with real-time previews.

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Image of Files

TBDel – manage files for deletion

January 9, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

TBDel is a simple command-line tool for managing a list of files and directories marked for deletion.

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Network

SSLyze – SSL/TLS scanning tool and Python library

January 9, 2026 Steve Emms Internet

SSLyze is a fast and powerful SSL/TLS scanning tool and Python library.

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Cloud

Az-TUI – manage Azure Container Apps

January 9, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, TUI

Az-TUI is a terminal-based user interface (TUI) for managing Azure Container Apps, inspired by tools like K9s.

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Linux Distributions

Ubuntu Sway – Ubuntu with Sway Wayland compositor

January 9, 2026 Erik Karlsson Distro

Ubuntu Sway aims to provide a user-friendly desktop based on Sway – a popular tiling window manager using the modern Wayland graphics stack.

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Brushshe – raster painting application

January 9, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

Brushshe provides accessible raster painting with brushes, stickers, screenshots, effects, selections, add-ons and customisable tools.

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Server

Casdoor – IAM and SSO

January 9, 2026 Steve Emms Internet

Casdoor is a UI-first Identity and Access Management (IAM) / Single-Sign-On (SSO) platform

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OrangePi SBC ARM

Orange Pi 6 Plus Single Board Computer running Linux: Power Consumption

January 9, 2026 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

For this article in the series, I’m looking at the power consumption of the Orange Pi 6 Plus comparing it to other machines.

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DHV – dive into Python code

January 9, 2026 Steve Emms Programming, TUI

DHV is a terminal-based tool for diving into Python code, giving easy visual access to bytecode disassembly and the abstract syntax tree.

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Backup software

GoBackup – backup your databases

January 9, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

GoBackup is a backup tool design for application servers, to backup your databases, files to cloud storage.

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SQLFluff – dialect-flexible SQL linter

January 9, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

SQLFluff is an open source, dialect-flexible and configurable SQL linter. It’s written in the Python language.

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