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File Managers

GopherDrop – Secure One-Time Secret Sharing

February 10, 2025 Steve Emms Internet

GopherDrop is a secure, self-hostable REST API and UI for sharing encrypted one-time secrets and files.

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QR Tools

qr-rs – encode URLs or text into QR codes

February 10, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

qr-rs is a command line interface utility to encode URLs or more generally text into QR codes in various file formats and colors.

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Turn Based Strategy Games

Tanks of Freedom II – Indie Turn Based Strategy Game

February 10, 2025 Steve Emms Games

Tanks of Freedom II is a classic, turn-based strategy game with up to four armies fighting against each other.

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sled – embedded database

February 10, 2025 Steve Emms Database

sled is an embedded database that’s written in the Rust programming language.

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AlsaPlayer – heavily multi-threaded PCM player

February 10, 2025 Steve Emms Multimedia

AlsaPlayer is a type of PCM player. It is heavily multi-threaded and tries to excercise the ALSA library and driver quite a bit.

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Hypervisors

Quickgui – virtual machine manager

February 9, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Internet

Quickgui is a graphical user interface for the Quickemu virtual machine manager.

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Hex Editor

BinEd – binary / hex editor

February 9, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, GUI

BinEd is an editor for binary data (hex viewer/editor). It’s written in Java so runs under a wide range of platforms.

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Development Tools

Smart.Framework – PHP and JavaScript web framework

February 9, 2025 Eilidih Parris Programming

Smart.Framework is a practical, modern and high performance PHP / JavaScript Framework for Web featuring Middlewares and MVC.

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TiMidity++ – MIDI to WAVE converter and player

February 9, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

TiMidity++ is a software synthesizer. It can play MIDI files by converting them into PCM waveform data.

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Markdown

Glow – render Markdown on the command-line

February 9, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Documents

Glow is a terminal based markdown reader designed from the ground up to bring out the beauty—and power—of the CLI.

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Vulnerability Detection

Terrapin Vulnerability Scanner for the Terrapin attack

February 8, 2025 Steve Emms Security

The Terrapin Vulnerability Scanner can be used to determine the vulnerability of an SSH client or server against the Terrapin Attack.

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Development Tools

Pop PHP Framework – toolkit for rapid application development

February 8, 2025 Eilidih Parris Programming

The Pop PHP Framework contains a group of core components and an additional 30+ components that serve as a toolkit.

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Bochs – IA-32 (x86) PC emulator

February 8, 2025 Steve Emms Emulators, Internet

Bochs is a highly portable IA-32 (x86) PC emulato, that runs on most popular platforms.

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Endlessh

Melt – backup and restore SSH private keys using memorable seed phrases

February 8, 2025 Steve Emms Utilities

Melt is a utility that lets you backup and restore SSH private keys using memorable seed phrases.

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Hypervisors

Cassowary – run Windows virtual machine on Linux

February 8, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Internet

Cassowary lets you run a Windows virtual machine and use Windows applications on Linux as if they were native applications.

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QR Tools

qr-backup – paper backup of files using QR codes

February 8, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

qr-backup takes file(s), and outputs a “paper backup”: a printable black-and-white PDF full of QR codes.

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Photo Metadata

flxvwr – simple, cross-platform image viewer

February 7, 2025 Steve Emms Graphics

flxvwr is a simple, cross-platform image viewer which provides a minimal user interface, keyboard shortcuts, and smooth performance.

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Programming

highlight.js – syntax highlighter

February 7, 2025 Steve Emms Programming

highlight.js is a syntax highlighter written in JavaScript. It works in the browser as well as on the server

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Hypervisors

Quickemu – run Linux, macOS, and Windows virtual machines

February 7, 2025 Steve Emms Internet

Quickemu is a wrapper for QEMU that automatically “does the right thing” when creating virtual machines.

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QR Tools

QR Scanner – QR scanner/generator app

February 7, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

QR Scanner is a QR code scanner and generator built with Flutter.

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