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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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YouTube

ytcc – track video playlists and podcast subscriptions

July 20, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

ytcc tracks new videos and podcasts from subscribed playlists, with watched status, terminal playback, downloads, and RSS output.

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System administration

Designate – multi-tenant DNS as a Service for OpenStack

July 20, 2025 Steve Emms Internet, Web Apps

Designate provides multi-tenant DNS as a Service for OpenStack with REST APIs, zone management, automation and pluggable DNS backends.

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Reminduck – simple reminder app

July 19, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

Reminduck is a simple reminder app made to be quick and easy. Reminduck focuses on simple or recurrent reminders

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DomainMOD – manage domains and internet assets centrally

July 19, 2025 Steve Emms Internet, Web Apps

DomainMOD centralises domain portfolios, registrar data, costs, expiry tracking and related internet assets in a self-hosted web app.

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Stratbook – strategies, tips, and tricks

July 19, 2025 Steve Emms Games

Help gamers improve and share their knowledge.

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SPFtoolbox – browser-based DNS and domain lookup utility

July 19, 2025 Steve Emms Internet, Web Apps

SPFtoolbox is a self-hosted web utility for DNS, mail and domain diagnostics including record lookups, DMARC, WHOIS and blacklist checks.

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Encrypted Files

v02enc – symmetric encryption for multiple recipients

July 19, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Security

v02enc is a password-based command-line encryption tool supporting multiple recipients, authenticated encryption and file workflows

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Education

Lute – Learning Using Texts

July 19, 2025 Steve Emms Education, GUI

Lute (Learning Using Texts) v3, a Python/Flask tool for learning foreign languages through reading. It’s a standalone web application

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CAD

CAD Sketcher – constraint-based geometry sketcher

July 18, 2025 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

CAD Sketcher is a constraint-based sketcher extension for Blender that allows users o create precise 2d shapes.

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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Autodesk FBX Review

July 18, 2025 Steve Emms Graphics

FBX Review is a lightweight, standalone software tool for viewing 3D assets and baked animations quickly and efficiently.

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HTerm – terminal program for serial communication

July 18, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

HTerm is a cross-platform terminal program for serial communication. It uses wxWidgets, fmt, and spdlog.

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Documents

lsr – recursively list files in directories

July 18, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

lsr lists directory contents, but with io_uring, a Linux kernel system call interface for storage device asynchronous I/O operations

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Minder

Mindolph – personal knowledge management software

July 18, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

Mindolph is a personal knowledge management software with Gen-AI support for all desktop platforms

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Endlessh

KeySmith – SSH key management

July 18, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

KeySmith provides an intuitive interface for generating, managing, and deploying SSH keys without needing to use command-line tools.

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Painting tools

InfiniPaint – infinite canvas software

July 17, 2025 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

InfiniPaint is a collaborative, infinite space, infinite zoom, canvas note-taking/drawing app.

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Mind Mapping

markmap – build mindmaps with plain text

July 17, 2025 Steve Emms Productivity

markmap lets you visualize your Markdown as mindmaps. It parses Markdown content and extracts its intrinsic hierarchical structure

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OrangePi SBC - RISC-V

Orange Pi RV2 Single Board Computer Running Linux: Installing to the eMMC

July 17, 2025 Steve Emms Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

In this article I document transferring my Ubuntu distribution from the microSD card to the eMMC. It makes the distro much snappier on the RV2.

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Selection of utilities

Dotfiles Installer – install dotfiles with the minimum of fuss

July 17, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Take control of your dotfiles configurations with Dotfiles Installer, designed to make dotfile management seamless.

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WhatSie – WhatsApp web client

July 17, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Internet

WhatSie is billed as a feature rich WhatsApp web client based on Qt WebEngine for Linux Desktop.

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