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Video Games

liskvork – modern multi-platform gomoku game server

December 25, 2025 Steve Emms Games

liskvork is a modern multi-platform gomoku game server that runs under Linux, *BSD, macOS, and Windows.

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Coding

sticks – modern, lightweight CLI tool for managing C and C++ projects

December 24, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

sticks is published under the MIT license.

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Video-Emulators

BizHawk – multi-system emulator

December 24, 2025 Steve Emms Emulators, Games

BizHawk is a multi-system emulator written in C#. It also has recording/playback and debugging tools.

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Network

Nekobox – GUI proxy utility

December 24, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Internet

Nekobox is a cross-platform GUI proxy utility powered by Sing-box. It supports Linux and Windows.

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Selection of utilities

nak – nostr army knife

December 24, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

nak is the nostr army knife command-line tool. This is free and unencumbered software released into the public domain.

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Albania

PixelTerm-C – terminal image viewer

December 24, 2025 Steve Emms Graphics, TUI

PixelTerm-C is a high-performance terminal image browser written in C, based on the Chafa library.

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Season’s Greetings from LinuxLinks

December 24, 2025 Steve Emms Blog

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from everyone at LinuxLinks. We hope you have a lovely time over the festive season.

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Git Clients

fuss – quick staging dirty git files

December 24, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

fuss is an interactive tree utility for complete git workflows, written in modern Fortran.

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Monitoring

dirmap – generate annotated directory maps from source files

December 24, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

dirmap generates annotated directory maps from Markdown and source comments, with configurable matchers, ignore patterns, and table output.

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lux – package manager for Lua

December 24, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

lux is a luxurious package manager for Lua.

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Email

Dove – configuration and modifications for Mozilla Thunderbird

December 24, 2025 Steve Emms Internet

Dove is a suite of configurations & advanced modifications for Mozilla Thunderbird, designed to put the user first

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kirill – JSON validator

December 24, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

kirill scans projects large and small for JSON correctness.

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Selection of utilities

xLights – sequencer for lights

December 23, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

xLights is a sequencer to design, create and play lighting displays through the use of DMX controllers, E1.31 Ethernet controllers and more.

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Redress – tool for analyzing stripped binaries

December 23, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

The redress software is a tool for analyzing stripped Go binaries compiled with the Go compiler.

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Application Launchers

Stryde – application launcher

December 23, 2025 Steve Emms Desktop

Stryde is an application launcher that’s in an early stage of development.

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Selection of utilities

ck – semantic code search

December 23, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, TUI, Utilities

ck (seek) finds code by meaning, not just keywords. It’s grep that understands what you’re looking for

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Prog8 – structured programming language

December 23, 2025 Steve Emms Programming

Prog8 is a structured programming language for the 8-bit 6502/6510/65c02 microprocessor from the late 1970’s and 1980’s

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Screen Capture

termframe – render terminal output as SVG screenshots

December 23, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

termframe renders commands and piped terminal output into styled SVG screenshots, supporting colours, automatic sizing and custom themes.

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Flash OS

buf – flash ISOs to create bootable USB drives

December 23, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

buf is a command-line utility for flashing ISOs to create bootable USB drives.

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Essential Utilities to Boost Producitivity

demongrep – fast, local semantic code search

December 23, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Search your codebase using natural language queries like “where do we handle authentication?” — all running locally with no API calls.

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