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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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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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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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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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opencu – minimalistic serial terminal emulator

July 16, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

opencu is serial terminal emulator. It’s a port of OpenBSD’s serial terminal emulator cu to Linux.

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Education

Kana – learn Japanese characters

July 16, 2025 Steve Emms Education, GUI

Kana helps you hone your Japanese skills by matching romanized characters to their correct hiragana and katakana counterparts.

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Karere – GTK4 WhatsApp Client

July 16, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Internet

Karere is a native GTK4 application that provides a seamless WhatsApp Web experience integrated with your Linux desktop.

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System administration

Poweradmin – web-based DNS administration tool

July 16, 2025 Steve Emms Internet

Poweradmin is a friendly web-based DNS administration tool for PowerDNS server.

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Photo collection

Mapollage – photo kml generator for Google Earth

July 15, 2025 Steve Emms Graphics

Mapollage is a photo kml generator for Google Earth.

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Foreign Languages

Kiten – Japanese reference and study tool

July 15, 2025 Steve Emms Education, GUI

Kiten is a Japanese reference and study tool. It features an English to Japanese and Japanese to English dictionary, and a Kanji dictionary.

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System administration

nsupdate.info – software used to implement a free dynamic DNS service

July 15, 2025 Steve Emms Internet

nsupdate.info is the name of software used to implement a free dynamic DNS service.

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WasIstLos – unofficial WhatsApp desktop application

July 15, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Internet

WasIstLos is an unofficial WhatsApp desktop application with the help of gtkmm and WebKitGtk libraries.

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Web Browsers

mitmproxy – interactive HTTPS proxy

July 15, 2025 Steve Emms Web Apps

mitmproxy is your swiss-army knife for debugging, testing, privacy measurements, and penetration testing.

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LocalStack is a cloud service emulator

July 15, 2025 Steve Emms Programming

LocalStack is a cloud service emulator that runs in a single container on your laptop or in your CI environment.

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Selection of utilities

Sysdig – dig deeper

July 15, 2025 Steve Emms Security, System Software

Sysdig is a universal system visibility tool with native support for containers.

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