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BeeRef – simple reference image viewer

July 26, 2024 Steve Emms Graphics, Reviews

BeeRef is Python-based software which lets you quickly arrange your reference images and view them while you create

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Monitoring

wfh – rsync as you edit

July 26, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

wfh continuously watches your local directories and rsync them against a remote host.

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Monitoring

watchexec – run a command when files in the current directory change

July 26, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

watchexec is a simple, standalone tool that watches a path and runs a command whenever it detects modifications.

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watcher – watch files in a directory for changes

July 26, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

watcher is a simple command line app to watch files in a directory for changes.

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treegrep – pattern matcher frontend or backend

July 26, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

treegrep is a frontend for existing pattern matchers or a standalone pattern matcher which presents results in a tree format.

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Image Compression Tools

CoreImage – lightweight image viewer

July 26, 2024 Steve Emms Graphics

CoreImage is a simple lightweight easy to use image viewer which is part of the C Suite.

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OpenComic – comic and manga reader

July 25, 2024 Steve Emms Other

OpenComic is a comic and manga reader written in the JavaScript language.

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Tacent View – image and texture viewer

July 25, 2024 Steve Emms Graphics

Tacent View is a graphical image and texture viewer. It can also be used as a command-line tool for batch processing of images

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Houdoki – manga reader and library manager

July 25, 2024 Steve Emms Other

Houdoku is a manga reader for the desktop. Read manga or webtoons with a configurable reader, including vertical and two-page reading modes.

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PDF

NightPDF – dark mode PDF reader

July 24, 2024 Steve Emms Documents

NightPDF is a basic dark mode PDF reader which uses the Electron software framework.

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DreamQuest with Ubuntu

DreamQuest N95 Mini PC Running Linux: Introduction

July 24, 2024 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

DreamQuest N95 Mini PC is a well specified computer. This is a multi-article looking at this computer from a Linux perspective.

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Utility Software

Xterm.js – build terminals in the browser

July 23, 2024 Steve Emms Programming, Utilities

Xterm.js is a front-end component that lets applications bring fully-featured terminals to their users in the browser.

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Linux

Wave Terminal – AI-native terminal built for seamless workflows

July 22, 2024 Steve Emms Productivity, Reviews

Wave Terminal is an AI-native terminal built for seamless workflows. It’s free and open source software.

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System Administration

Flatpak KCM – Flatpak Permissions Management

July 22, 2024 Steve Emms Utilities

Flatpak KCM allows changing what permissions have been granted to installed Flatpak applications.

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System Administration

malcontent – implements parental controls support

July 21, 2024 Steve Emms Utilities

malcontent implements support for restricting the type of content accessible to non-administrator accounts on a Linux system.

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Git Clients

GitButler – Git branch management tool

July 21, 2024 Steve Emms Programming

GitButler is a Git branch management tool, built from the ground up for modern workflows.

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Git Clients

hercules – gain advanced insights from Git repository history

July 17, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

Hercules is a fast and highly customizable Git repository analysis engine. It’s written in the Go language.

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Albania

lsix – ls for images

July 16, 2024 Steve Emms Graphics, Utilities

lsix is like the ls command but for images.The tool shows thumbnails in a terminal using sixel graphics. It’s written in Bash.

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Git Clients

git-xargs – update across multiple GitHub repositories with a single command

July 16, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

git-xargs is a command-line tool (CLI) for making updates across multiple GitHub repositories with a single command.

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System Administration

jdFlatpakSnapshot – create snapshot of a Flatpak’s data

July 16, 2024 Steve Emms Utilities

jdFlatpakSnapshot is a tool which lets you create a snapshot of the data of a Flatpak.

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