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Specifically Clementines – self-hosted grocery list app

August 3, 2025 Steve Emms Web Apps

Specifically Clementines is a grocery list app with reliable offline synchronisation, shared shopping lists, store groups and recipes.

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Table Habit – cross-platform habit tracking application

August 3, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Scientific

Table Habit tracks positive and negative habits with scoring, progress charts, custom groups, offline storage and optional WebDAV sync.

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ZapZap – WhatsApp Desktop for Linux

August 3, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Internet

ZapZap brings the WhatsApp experience on Linux closer to that of a native application.

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System administration

Digger – graphical DNS lookup and diagnostics tool

August 2, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Internet

Digger is a GTK DNS lookup and diagnostics application with DNSSEC checks, encrypted DNS, propagation tests and exportable results.

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Coding

mypy – static type checker for Python

August 2, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

Mypy adds gradual static typing to Python projects, with generics, strict checks, incremental analysis and an extensible plugin system.

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Endlessh

sshp – parallel SSH executor

August 2, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

sshp manages multiple ssh processes and handles coalescing the output to the terminal.

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Recipya – self-hosted recipe manager

August 2, 2025 Steve Emms Web Apps

Recipya manages family recipes with web imports, cookbook organisation, nutrition details, unit conversion and printable recipes.

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Pyroma – assess Python package quality

August 2, 2025 Eilidih Parris Programming

Pyroma assesses Python package quality, checking metadata, descriptions and distributions to improve the quality of PyPI releases.

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Musical instruments

mpd-mpris – MPRIS protocol for MPD

August 1, 2025 Steve Emms Multimedia

mpd-mpris exposes Music Player Daemon through MPRIS, bringing MPD playback, metadata, artwork, and seeking to desktop controls.

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Video Conversion

Constrict – compress videos to target sizes

August 1, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Constrict compresses your videos to your chosen file size — useful for uploading to services with specific file size limits.

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Coding

Prospector – unified Python source code analysis

August 1, 2025 Eilidih Parris CLI, Programming

Prospector runs Python linters to identify errors, style violations and complexity problems, with configurable profiles and reports.

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RecipeSage – recipe keeper, meal planner and shopping list organizer

August 1, 2025 Steve Emms Web Apps

Share and collaborate on recipes, manage household shopping lists and meal planning, and import recipes from anywhere on the web instantly.

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Best Free and Open Source Software: July 2025 Updates

August 1, 2025 Steve Emms Software

July 2025 updates to the largest compilation of recommended free and open source software available for Linux.

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Pylama – code audit tool for Python

August 1, 2025 Eilidih Parris Programming

Pylama is an open source code audit tool for Python. Pylama wraps a variety of open source tools, mostly linters.

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Wangle – networking library

July 31, 2025 Steve Emms Programming

Wangle is a library that makes it easy to build protocols, application clients, and application servers.

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Monitor System

TkmViewer – analyse TaskMonitor output

July 31, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, System Software

TkmViewer is a graphical user interface to visualize output SQLite3 data format from the TaskMonitor daemon.

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Bandit – find security issues in Python code

July 31, 2025 Eilidih Parris CLI, Programming

Bandit scans Python source code for common security issues using AST analysis, severity ratings and configurable checks for CI workflows.

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Firefly AIBOX 3588S

Firefly AIBOX-3588S Embedded Fanless PC: Power Consumption

July 31, 2025 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

For this article in the series, I’m looking at the power consumption of the Firefly AIBOX-358SS fanless PC.

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Machine Learning

codename goose – AI agent

July 31, 2025 Steve Emms Scientific

goose is an on-machine AI agent, capable of automating complex development tasks from start to finish.

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YALA – Yet Another Linter Aggregator

July 31, 2025 Eilidih Parris Programming

YALA combines many linters to improve the quality of your code.

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