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Deepin Picker – simple color picker

December 22, 2024 Steve Emms Graphics

Deepin Picker is billed as the simplest color picker.

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talking-clock – highly configurable talking clock

December 22, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity

talking-clock is a highly configurable clock written in bash with soundpack and voice options. It’s written in Bash.

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Web Content Management Systems

Vrite – collaborative developer content platform

December 22, 2024 Steve Emms Web Apps

Vrite is a collaborative space to create, manage, and deploy product documentation, technical blogs, and knowledge bases.

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Find Duplicates

littleutils – utilities for file compression, file manipulation, text cleanup

December 21, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

littleutils include duplicate file finders, image optimizers, file rename tools, archive recompressors, a tempfile utility, and others.

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kleur – Node.js library for formatting terminal text with ANSI colors

December 21, 2024 Eilidih Parris Programming

kleur bills itself as the fastest Node.js library for formatting terminal text with ANSI colors. It’s written in JavaScript.

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Shutdown

Shutdown Scheduler – schedule shutdown and restart tasks

December 21, 2024 Steve Emms Utilities

Shutdown Scheduler is a simple cross-platform application that uses system utilities for scheduling shutdown and restart tasks.

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picocolors – tiny and fast library for terminal output formatting

December 20, 2024 Eilidih Parris Programming

picocolors is billed as the tiniest and the fastest library for terminal output formatting with ANSI colors.

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gtree – generate trees and directories

December 19, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

gtree is a CLI-based utility which uses Markdown to generate directory trees and directories itself, and also verifies directories.

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Writing Tools

Skribisto – writing tool for Linux

December 19, 2024 Steve Emms Documents

Skribisto project manager and rich text editor for writers in a quest of a complete, yet simple, way of writing and organizing their work.

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Files

lscoltui – change the colors of ls

December 19, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

lscoltui is a TUI program that lets you configure the colors of ls.

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sty – string styling for your terminal

December 19, 2024 Eilidih Parris CLI, Programming

Sty provides a simple, customizable and performant string styling markup, which is decoupled from color palettes and terminal implementations.

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Monitoring

as-tree – print a list of paths as a tree of paths

December 18, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

as-tree is a command-line utility that prints a list of paths as a tree of paths. It’s written in Rust.

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Archive Manager

zpaqfranz – deduplicating archiver with encryption and paranoid-level tests

December 18, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

zpaqfranz is a deduplicating archiver with encryption and paranoid-level tests.

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CSS

Vanilla – extensible CSS framework

December 18, 2024 Eilidih Parris Web Apps

Vanilla Framework is an extensible CSS framework, built using Sass and is designed to be used either directly or by using themes.

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yachalk – terminal string styling done right

December 17, 2024 Eilidih Parris CLI, Programming

yachalk is a feature-complete clone of the Chalk (JavaScript) library.

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Rickrack – color palette generator

December 16, 2024 Steve Emms Graphics

Rickrack (Real-time Color Kit) is a user-friendly color editor. It is designed to generate a set of harmonious colors.

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Compositing Window Managers

Waybox – minimalist Wayland compositor

December 16, 2024 Steve Emms Software

Waybox is a *box-style (minimalist) Wayland compositor modeled largely on Openbox.

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colored – simple Python library for color and formatting in terminal

December 15, 2024 Eilidih Parris CLI, Programming

colored is a simple Python library for color and formatting in terminal

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Folder

ddh – fast duplicate file finder

December 15, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

ddh (the Directory Differential hTool) traverses input directories and their subdirectories.

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ansicolors – ANSI colors for Python

December 15, 2024 Eilidih Parris CLI, Programming

ansicolors add ANSI colors and decorations to your strings. This is free and open source software written in Python.

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