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Game Engines

microStudio – game engine

February 21, 2025 Steve Emms Games

microStudio is a free, open source game engine online. It is also a platform to learn and practise programming.

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Gephi – Open Graph Viz Platform

February 21, 2025 Steve Emms Software

Gephi is visualization and exploration software for all kinds of graphs and networks. Like Photoshop but for graph data.

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Bioinformatics

Genome Analysis Toolkit (GATK)

February 21, 2025 Steve Emms Scientific

GATK is a genomic analysis toolkit focused on variant discovery.

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Notes

Tangent – clean and powerful notes app

February 21, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

Tangent is designed to let you write the way you think. Your thoughts are connected; Tangent lets you link to existing notes and make new ones with ease.

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Words! – word puzzle game

February 21, 2025 Steve Emms Games

Words! is a word puzzle game where you have 6 tries to guess a hidden word. A simple and addictive game.

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abPOA – adaptive banded Partial Order Alignment

February 20, 2025 Steve Emms Scientific

abPOA is an extended version of Partial Order Alignment (POA) that performs adaptive banded dynamic programming (DP) with an SIMD implementation.

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Flashcards

Oboete – simple flashcard application

February 20, 2025 Steve Emms Education, GUI

Oboete is a simple flashcards application for the COSMIC desktop.

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Checkmk – IT monitoring platform

February 20, 2025 Steve Emms System Software

Checkmk provides comprehensive and specialized solutions for dealing with the very diverse environments within IT infrastructures.

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Picket – screen color picker

February 20, 2025 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

Picket is a screen color picker for Linux with magnifier and custom/user defined formats.

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Eloquent – proofreading software

February 20, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, GUI

Eloquent is a proofreading tool for English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Polish, Dutch, and more than 20 other languages.

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Game Engines

Redot Engine – multi-platform 2D and 3D game engine

February 20, 2025 Steve Emms Games

Redot Engine lets you create your 2D and 3D games, cross-platform projects, or explore innovative ideas in XR technology.

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Bioinformatics

AliView – alignment viewer and editor

February 19, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Scientific

AliView is an alignment viewer and editor for bioinformatics that aims to be one of the fastest and most intuitive to use.

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QR Tools

QRab – QR code reader

February 19, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

QRab is software that grabs text of QR code from a screen and copies it to the clipboard.

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QR Tools

Zint – barcode generating solution

February 19, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, Utilities

The Zint project aims to provide a complete cross-platform open source barcode generating solution.

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Best Free and Open Source Drum Machines

Drum Machine – create and play drum beats

February 19, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Drum Machine is a modern and intuitive application for creating, playing, and managing drum patterns.

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Flashcards

hascard – minimal command-line utility for reviewing notes

February 19, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Education, Utilities

hascard is a minimal command-line utility for reviewing notes. ‘Flashcards’ can be written in markdown-like syntax.

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Flashcards

studyFlash – learn flashcards in your terminal

February 18, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Education

studyFlash is a Python application for learning flashcards inside your terminal (for language learning).

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QR Tools

libqrencode – encoding data in a QR Code symbol

February 18, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

libqrencode is a fast and compact library for encoding data in a QR Code symbol,

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Flashcards

tui-deck – TUI frontend for Nextcloud Deck

February 18, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Education

tui-deck is a TUI frontend for Nextcloud Deck app written in GO using the Rich Interactive Widgets for Terminal UIs.

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Wi-Fi

GSConnect – complete implementation of KDE Connect

February 18, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Internet

GSConnect is a complete implementation of KDE Connect, especially for GNOME Shell with Nautilus, Chrome, and Firefox integration.

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