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Gum – tool for glamorous shell scripts

February 4, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Gum lets you leverage the power of Bubbles and Lip Gloss in your scripts and aliases without writing any Go code.

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QIV – Quick Image Viewer

February 4, 2025 Steve Emms Graphics

Quick Image Viewer (QIV) is a very small and pretty fast open source gdk/imlib image viewer.

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Sign files

Minisign – sign files and verify signatures

February 3, 2025 Steve Emms Utilities

Minisign is a very simple tool to sign files and verify digital signatures.

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Mirage – fast and simple GTK+ image viewer

February 3, 2025 Steve Emms Graphics

Mirage is a fast and simple GTK+ image viewer which only depends on PyGTK.

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Drawing – simple image editor

February 3, 2025 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

Drawing is a basic raster image editor is similar to Microsoft Paint, but aiming at the GNOME desktop.

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Vulnerability Detection

grype – vulnerability scanner

February 3, 2025 Steve Emms Security

grype is a vulnerability scanner for container images and filesystems.

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The Way – code snippets manager

February 2, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

the-way is a terminal-based code snippets manager.Record and retrieve snippets you use every day, or occasionally, without starting a browser.

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Program code

Pygments – generic syntax highlighter

February 2, 2025 Eilidih Parris Programming

Pygments is a generic syntax highlighter suitable for use in code hosting, forums, wikis or other applications.

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Encryption

Kryptor – simple, modern, and secure file encryption and signing tool

February 2, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Security

Kryptor lets you encrypt multiple files/directories with a passphrase, symmetric key, or asymmetric keys.

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Files

Docfd – TUI multiline fuzzy document finder

February 2, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Docfd is a text user interface multiline fuzzy document finder written in OCaml.

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Black – Python code formatter

February 2, 2025 Steve Emms Programming

Black is an uncompromising PEP 8 compliant opinionated formatter.

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massCode – code snippets manager for developers

February 2, 2025 Steve Emms Programming, Utilities

massCode is a code snippets manager. It helps you create and organize your own personal snippet collection and have quick access to it.

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Programming

Prism – lightweight, extensible syntax highlighter

February 1, 2025 Eilidih Parris Programming

Prism is a lightweight, extensible syntax highlighter, built with modern web standards in mind. It’s used in millions of websites

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Best Free and Open Source Software: January 2025 Updates

February 1, 2025 Steve Emms Software

January 2025 updates to the largest compilation of recommended free and open source software available for Linux.

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Tools that help you

wat offers instant, central, community-built docs

February 1, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Wat is an interactive app built to drastically reduce time spent searching for syntax and code usage questions.

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Encryption software

Kleopatra – KDE tool for managing X.509 and OpenPGP certificates

February 1, 2025 Steve Emms Security

Kleopatra is the KDE tool for managing X.509 and OpenPGP certificates in the GpgSM and GPG keyboxes and for retrieving certificates.

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Testing Software

Ohkami – intuitive and declarative web framework

January 31, 2025 Steve Emms Programming

Ohkami is an intuitive and declarative web framework for Rust.

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Terminal Session Recording

agg – asciinema gif generator

January 31, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

agg is a command-line tool for generating animated GIF files from terminal session recordings.

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Gisto – code snippet manager

January 31, 2025 Steve Emms Software

Gisto is a code snippet manager that runs on GitHub Gists and adds additional features such as searching, tagging and sharing gists

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Ement.el – Matrix client for Emacs

January 30, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

Ement.el is a Matrix client for Emacs. It aims to be simple, fast, featureful, and reliable, while integrating naturally with Emacs.

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