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CAD

XTrackCAD is a CAD program for designing model railroad layouts

April 9, 2025 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

XTrackCAD is a CAD (computer-aided design) program for designing Model Railroad layouts.

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Synthesizer

Borg ER-3 is a portable audio synthesizer

April 9, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Borg ER-3 is a fixed-state modular synthesizer using Frequency, Amplitude, Resolution, and Transformation (FART) oscillators.

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EDA

FidoCadJ is a graphical editor for electronics

April 8, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Scientific

FidoCadJ is a simple vector graphic editor which comes with a large library of symbols related to the electrical and electronic engineering.

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Essential Utilities to Boost Producitivity

mise manages installations of programming language runtimes

April 8, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

mise is a tool that manages installations of programming language runtimes and other tools for local development.

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Podcast

Cardo is a GUI podcast client written in TypeScript

April 8, 2025 Luke Baker GUI, Internet, Multimedia, Reviews

Cardo is a Linux podcast client for desktop, seeking inspiration from Antennapod, a podcast aggregator for Android.

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OpenRefine – desktop program for data cleanup and transformation

April 8, 2025 Steve Emms Scientific

OpenRefine is a powerful tool for working with messy data: cleaning it; transforming it from one format into another

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direnv unclutters your .profile

April 8, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

direnv is an extension for your shell that manages your environment.

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Selection of utilities

quickenv is an unobtrusive environment manager

April 7, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

quickenv is a replacement for direnv. It works with existing .envrcs, and as such is a drop-in replacement.

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Synthesizer

synthv1 is an old-school polyphonic synthesizer

April 7, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

synthv1 is an old-school all-digital 4-oscillator subtractive polyphonic synthesizer with stereo fx.

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Video-Emulators

melonDS is an Nintendo DS and DSi emulator

April 7, 2025 Steve Emms Emulators, Games, GUI

melonDS aims at providing fast and accurate Nintendo DS emulation .While it is still a work in progress, it has a good set of features.

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Selection of utilities

Shadowenv performs a set of manipulations to the process environment

April 6, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Shadowenv provides a way to perform a set of manipulations to the process environment upon entering a directory in a shell.

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Synthesizer

Qsynth is a Qt GUI interface for FluidSynth

April 6, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

This software aims to bring a simple but effective software synthesizer front end to the Linux desktop.

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Video-Emulators

DuckStation is a PlayStation emulator

April 6, 2025 Steve Emms Emulators, GUI

DuckStation is a simulator/emulator of the Sony PlayStation 1 console, focusing on playability, speed, and long-term maintainability.

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CAD

Design is 2D CAD software for GNOME

April 6, 2025 Steve Emms Graphics

Design is a 2D computer aided design application (CAD), created to meet the needs of makers and designers, hobbyists and professionals

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Log Analyzers

Tags – GNOME text tagger

April 5, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, System Software

Tags is a GNOME text tagger. The main goal is to aid log analysis by tagging lines with user defined colors.

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Selection of utilities

asdf is an extendable version manager

April 5, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

asdf is a CLI tool that can manage multiple language runtime versions on a per-project basis.

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Essential Utilities to Boost Producitivity

zsh-autoenv automatically sources .autoenv.zsh files

April 5, 2025 Steve Emms Utilities

zsh-autoenv automatically sources (known/whitelisted) .autoenv.zsh files, typically used in project root directories.

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Chemistry

JChemPaint is a chemical 2D structure editor

April 4, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Scientific

JChemPaint (or JCP for short) is the editor and viewer for 2D chemical structures developed using the Chemistry Development Kit (CDK).

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Screen Capture

shotman is a screenshot GUI for Wayland

April 4, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

shotman is billed as uncompromising screenshot GUI for Wayland compositors. It is designed for interactive usage.

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Laptop

OptimusUI is a GUI for nVidia Optimus

April 4, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

OptimusUI is a graphical user interface for Laptops with nVidia Optimus Technology (e.g. switchable graphics).

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