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Ruffle – Adobe Flash Player emulator

August 24, 2025 Steve Emms Multimedia

Ruffle is an Adobe Flash Player emulator written in the Rust programming language.

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cpplint – static code checker for C and C++

August 24, 2025 Eilidih Parris CLI, Programming

cpplint checks C and C++ source against Google’s style guide, with configurable filters, recursive scanning and CI-friendly reports.

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Selene – Tor-based p2p chat and file sharing manager

August 24, 2025 Steve Emms Internet

Selene is a comprehensive peer-to-peer chat and file sharing application built on the Tor network.

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Word2IPA – turn words into their true sounds

August 23, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Word2IPA converts English words into the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), providing a clear representation of pronunciation.

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System administration

dnsi – tool to investigate the DNS

August 23, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

dnsi is a command line tool to investigate various aspects of the Domain Name System (DNS).

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dizqueTV – create live TV channel streams from media on your Plex servers

August 23, 2025 Steve Emms Multimedia, Web Apps

dizqueTV lets you create live TV channel streams from media on your Plex servers.

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Eden – Nintendo Switch emulator

August 23, 2025 Steve Emms Emulators, Games, GUI

Eden is an experimental emulator for the Nintendo Switch, built with performance and stability in mind.

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Cppcheck – static analysis tool for C and C++

August 23, 2025 Eilidih Parris CLI, GUI, Programming

Cppcheck analyses C and C++ code for undefined behaviour, memory errors and portability issues, with CLI and GUI tools and custom rules.

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goscrobble – simple music scrobbler daemon

August 22, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

goscrobble is a simple music scrobbler daemon for MPRIS-based music players (e.g. Spotify or tidal-hifi).

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Documentation

peep – CLI text viewer tool

August 22, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

peep is the CLI text viewer tool which runs on Linux and macOS. This tool works interactively like the less command.

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Encrypted Files

Xecrets Cli – AxCrypt-compatible command-line encryption toolbox

August 22, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Security

Xecrets Cli is an AxCrypt-compatible command-line encryption toolbox with file encryption, public keys, secret sharing and scripting.

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Documentation Generators

ls-lint – fast file and directory name linter

August 22, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

ls-lint is an extremely fast directory and filename linter. Bring some structure to your project filesystem.

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Files

doxx – terminal-native document viewer for Word files

August 22, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, TUI

doxx is a fast, terminal-native document viewer for Word files. View, search, and export .docx documents without leaving your command line.

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Security

Kingfisher – secret‑scanning and live validation tool

August 21, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Security

Kingfisher is a secret‑scanning and live validation tool combining Hyperscan regex engine with language‑aware parsing.

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System administration

dnsperf – measure DNS server latency and throughput

August 21, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

dnsperf measures DNS server throughput and latency with repeatable workloads, while resperf tests resolving-service capacity under load.

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Tatuin – terminal interface for task aggregation

August 21, 2025 Steve Emms Productivity, TUI

Tatuin unifies tasks from Obsidian, Todoist, GitHub, GitLab, iCalendar and CalDAV in a terminal interface with filtering and themes.

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Password Managers

FMP – password manager written in memory-safe Rust

August 21, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Forgot My Password (FMP) is a password manager that safely allows you to generate, store, and manage your passwords in encrypted vaults.

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multi-scrobbler – scrobble music

August 21, 2025 Steve Emms Multimedia

multi-scrobble is a JavaScript app to scrobble music you listened to, to Maloja, Last.fm, and ListenBrainz.

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ASROCK NUC BOX-255H Running Linux

ASRock Industrial NUC BOX-255H Running Linux: OpenVINO AI Plugins for Audacity

August 21, 2025 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Mini PC, Multimedia, Reviews

The plugins provide AI-enabled effects, generators and analyzers. I can run them on the NUC Box-255H with no internet connection needed.

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Coding

Perl-Critic – static analyzer

August 21, 2025 Eilidih Parris Programming

Perl::Critic is an extensible framework for creating and applying coding standards to Perl source code.

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