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aurutils – helper tools for the AUR

September 12, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

aurutils is a collection of scripts to automate usage of the Arch User Repository, with different tasks such as package searching, and more.

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Cloud storage

Directory Lister – browse and share public directories

September 12, 2025 Steve Emms Productivity, Web Apps

Directory Lister presents public folders through a searchable website with themes, checksums, README rendering and ZIP downloads.

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Application Launchers

Vicinae – native launcher for the desktop

September 12, 2025 Steve Emms Desktop, GUI

Vicinae is a high-performance, native launcher for your desktop — built with C++ and Qt.

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Chess Engines

25 Strong Free and Open Source Chess Engines

September 12, 2025 Steve Emms Games, Software

Computer chess has been a phenomenal success, aiding chess analysis, and allowing players to play when no human opponents are available.

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NovProg – graph your progress in writing a novel

September 12, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, GUI

NovProg tracks daily and total word counts for novels, charting writing progress against goals in a desktop application for Linux.

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Minisforum AI X1 Pro: Jan – Chat with AI without privacy concerns

September 12, 2025 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews, Scientific

A simple real-world test of the performance of the Radeon 890M with Jan, an open source ChatGPT-alternative that runs 100% offline.

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jinjalint – prototype linter

September 12, 2025 Eilidih Parris Programming

jinjalint is a prototype linter which checks the indentation and the correctness of Jinja-like/HTML templates.

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trizen – lightweight AUR package manager

September 11, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

trizen is a lightweight AUR package manager that’s written in the Perl programming language.

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Perltidy – indents and reformats Perl scripts

September 11, 2025 Eilidih Parris CLI, Programming

Perltidy is a Perl script which indents and reformats Perl scripts to make them easier to read.

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Cloud storage

Gossa – lightweight file server with multimedia previews

September 11, 2025 Steve Emms Productivity, Web Apps

Gossa is a lightweight file-sharing server with uploads, multimedia previews, a note editor, keyboard shortcuts and read-only mode.

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ROCK 4D

Radxa ROCK 4D Single Board Computer Running Linux: Introduction to the Series

September 11, 2025 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

This series looks at the Radxa ROCK 4D single board computer. It’s billed as a high-performance SBC for Edge AI and 4K multimedia.

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Musical instruments

GrandOrgue – pipe organ simulator

September 11, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

GrandOrgue is a virtual pipe organ sample player application supporting a HW1 compatible file format.

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TV

Tunarr – create and configure live TV channels

September 11, 2025 Steve Emms Multimedia, Web Apps

Tunarr lets you create live TV channels from media on your Plex/Jellyfin servers, and more

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Files

IFM – Improved File Manager

September 11, 2025 Steve Emms Productivity, Web Apps

IFM is a compact single-file PHP web file manager with editing, uploads, archive extraction, LDAP authentication, and Docker deployment.

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commitlint – lint commit messages

September 10, 2025 Eilidih Parris Programming

commitlint checks if your commit messages meet the conventional commit format.

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Circuit board

F-Fetch – fast and minimal system fetcher

September 10, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

F-Fetch is a very fast, minimal terminal system fetcher. It is highly customizable

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Software

pikaur – AUR helper with minimal dependencies

September 10, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

pikaur is an AUR helper with minimal dependencies. Review PKGBUILDs all in once, next build them all without user interaction.

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Google Drawings

Project Graph – next generation node graph drawing tool

September 10, 2025 Steve Emms Scientific

Project Graph is a simple but powerful tool for drawing graphs. Unleash creativity and streamline workflows with AI-powered graph design.

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Minisforum AI X1 Pro

Minisforum AI X1 Pro running Linux: Power Consumption

September 10, 2025 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

I put the Minisforum AI X1 Pro mini PC under a series of power consumption tests and compare it to other machines.

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coala – lint and fix code

September 9, 2025 Steve Emms Programming

coala provides a unified interface for linting and fixing code with a single configuration file

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