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tuptime – report historical and statistical real time of the system

March 31, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

tuptime is a utility that reports historical and statistical real time of the system, keeping it between restarts.

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downtimed – system downtime monitoring and reporting tool

March 31, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

downtimed is a program for monitoring operating system downtime, uptime, shutdowns and crashes and for keeping record of such events.

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lastwake – wake/suspend time system journal analyzer

March 31, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

lastwake parses the systemd journal to find out: time of last cold boot, and start/end times of each sleep/resume cycle and their duration.

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Music Trackers

Furnace – multi-system chiptune tracker

March 22, 2024 Steve Emms Multimedia

Furnace is a tool which allows you to create music using sound chips (“chiptune”), most from the 8/16-bit era.

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Go AppImage – implementation of AppImage tools

March 21, 2024 Steve Emms Utilities

Go AppImage is an implementation of AppImage tools written in Go by the inventor of the AppImage format.

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Document Management Systems

Docspell – Document Management System

March 20, 2024 Steve Emms Documents

Docspell is a personal document organizer targeted for home use, i.e. families, households and also for smaller groups/companies.

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Foam – personal knowledge management and sharing system

March 3, 2024 Steve Emms Documents

Foam is a personal knowledge management and sharing system inspired by Roam Research, built on Visual Studio Code and GitHub.

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Cuneiform – OCR system

February 14, 2024 Steve Emms Documents

Cuneiform is a multi-language, open source optical character recognition system originally developed by Cognitive Technologies.

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Software

yrmcds – memory object caching system with master/slave replication

December 30, 2023 Steve Emms Documents

yrmcds is a memory object caching system with master/slave replication. It’s written in C++ and published under an open source license.

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Medusa – set of commerce modules and tools

December 3, 2023 Steve Emms Web Apps

Medusa is a set of commerce modules and tools to build commerce applications without reinventing core commerce logic.

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Log Analyzers

Loki – horizontally-scalable, highly-available, multi-tenant log aggregation system

December 2, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

Loki is a horizontally-scalable, highly-available, multi-tenant log aggregation system inspired by Prometheus.

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Coding

Rust – systems programming language

November 21, 2023 Steve Emms Programming

Rust is an open source, curly-brace, block-structured expression, general purpose, multi-paradigm, compiled language.

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Graphics

Argyll – color management system

November 16, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics

Argyll is an ICC compatible color management system. It supports accurate ICC profile creation for scanners, CMYK printers, and more.

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Email

getmail – mail retrieval system

November 16, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

getmail is a mail retriever designed to allow you to get your mail from one or more mail accounts on various mail servers to your local machine.

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Beets – media library management system

November 16, 2023 Steve Emms Multimedia

Beets is a media library management system for obsessive-compulsive music geeks.

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Hard disk image

fuseiso – FUSE module to mount ISO filesystem images

November 13, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

fuseiso is a FUSE module to mount ISO filesystem images. It implements a fully functional filesystem in a userspace program.

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Best Free and Open Source Interactive Fiction Tools

FrobTADS – Authoring System to Create Your Own Interactive Fiction

November 12, 2023 Steve Emms Games

FrobTADS is a full version of TADS for Unix, Linux, and Mac OS X.

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Best Free and Open Source Interactive Fiction Tools

Inform – Design System for Interactive Fiction

November 12, 2023 Steve Emms Games

Inform is a design system for interactive fiction based on natural language. It’s a radical reinvention of the way interactive fiction is designed.

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Web Delivery

Responsive Aeon Grid System – elegant & minimalist CSS grid

November 12, 2023 Steve Emms Programming

Responsive Aeon Grid System is a simple and minimalist alternative to start with Responsive Design and fluid Grids for Web Designers.

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File Managers

cdls – Curses based file manager for system managers

November 12, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity

cdls is a curses-based file manager for quickly browsing directories and files. The screen can be dynamically adjusted to include all information.

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