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Brakeman – static analysis tool

July 23, 2025 Eilidih Parris Programming

Brakeman is a static analysis tool which checks Ruby on Rails applications for security vulnerabilities.

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System administration

octoDNS – manage DNS across multiple providers

July 23, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

octoDNS manages DNS as code across multiple providers with declarative configuration, planning, validation and a plugin architecture.

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Prettier – opinionated code formatter

July 23, 2025 Eilidih Parris Programming

Prettier is an opinionated code formatter. It enforces a consistent style by parsing your code and re-printing it with its own rules

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Game Tools

Hurry Curry! – multiplayer co-op cooking game

July 23, 2025 Steve Emms Games

Hurry Curry! is a cooperative multiplayer game. You work at a restaurant accepting orders, cooking various dishes and serving meals.

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Raspberry Pi 5 Desktop Mini PC: Good value compared to an Intel N100 Mini PC?

July 23, 2025 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

A question I get asked a fair bit is whether the Raspberry Pi 5 represents good value to purchase as a desktop PC.

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Tempo – metronome for musicians

July 23, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Tempo is a reliable metronome application designed for musicians of all levels. Built with modern GTK4 and Libadwaita

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ESLint – find and fix problems in JavaScript code

July 22, 2025 Eilidih Parris Programming

ESLint is a tool for identifying and reporting on patterns found in ECMAScript/JavaScript code.

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Video Editing

mpv-mpris – plugin for mpv

July 22, 2025 Steve Emms Multimedia

mpv-mpris adds an MPRIS D-Bus interface to mpv, enabling desktop media controls, metadata reporting, artwork, and media keys.

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OpenCommit – auto-generate meaningful commits in a second

July 22, 2025 Steve Emms Programming, Scientific

OpenCommit lets you auto-generate meaningful commits.There are multiple optional flags that can be used with the oco command.

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PDF

fancy-cat – PDF reader for terminal emulators

July 22, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, TUI

fancy-cat displays PDF files in compatible terminal emulators with keyboard navigation, dark mode, hot reloading and configurable commands.

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RuboCop – Ruby static code analyzer and formatter

July 22, 2025 Eilidih Parris CLI, Programming

RuboCop is a static code analyzer and formatter with autocorrection, extensive configuration, multiple output formats and editor support.

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System

µgRD – generate a custom initramfs environment

July 21, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

µgRD is designed to generate a custom initramfs environment to boot the system which built it.

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System

psfu – do stuff with processes

July 21, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

psfu currently has one major command called tree which is used to show or modify all processes in that process tree.

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Reek – code smell detector for Ruby

July 21, 2025 Eilidih Parris CLI, Programming

Reek examines Ruby classes, modules and methods for code smells, with configurable detectors, multiple output formats and editor integrations.

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Coding

Biome – toolchain for web projects

July 21, 2025 Eilidih Parris Programming

Biome is a toolchain for web projects, that offers formatter and linter, usable via CLI and LSP

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Firefly AIBOX 3588S

Firefly AIBOX-3588S Embedded Fanless PC Running Linux – Introduction

July 21, 2025 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

This is the first in a series of articles looking at the Firefly AIBOX 3588S embedded fanless ARM-based mini PC.

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Security

TruffleHog – discovery, classification, validation, and analysis tool

July 21, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Security

TruffleHog is a secret scanning engine that detects and helps resolve exposed secrets across your entire tech stack.

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Character Map

Runemaster – character map app for GNOME

July 20, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Unleash the magic of Unicode characters with Runemaster.

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Machine Learning

BrickGPT – generates a toy brick structure

July 20, 2025 Steve Emms Scientific

BrickGPT generates a toy brick structure from a user-provided text prompt in an end-to-end manner.

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Git Clients

Forge Sparks – GNOME notifications for Git forges

July 20, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Programming

Forge Sparks is a GNOME application for GitHub, GitLab, Gitea and Forgejo notifications, providing a desktop view of forge activity.

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