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VitePress – Vue-powered static site generator

October 5, 2024 Eilidih Parris Web Apps

VitePress is a static site generator (SSG) designed for building fast, content-centric websites.

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Clipboard

cliphist – clipboard history manager for Wayland

October 4, 2024 Steve Emms Utilities

cliphist is a clipboard history “manager” for Wayland. It’s written in Go.

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idea – keep ideas safe

October 4, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity

idea is a lightweight CLI tool and module for keeping ideas in a safe place quick and easy.

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img2ascii – command-line tool for converting images to ASCII art

October 3, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

img2ascii is a command-line tool for converting images to ASCII art.

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alive-progress – progress Bar, with real-time throughput

October 3, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

alive-progress is a progress Bar, with real-time throughput, ETA, and very cool animations.

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Diagon – transforms markdown-style expression into an ascii-art representation

October 3, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

Diagon is an interactive interpreter. It transforms markdown-style expression into an ascii-art representation.

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pik – terminal-based colour picker

October 2, 2024 Steve Emms Graphics

pik is a color picker for the terminal.

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Butterfly – cross-platform note-taking app

October 2, 2024 Steve Emms Productivity

Butterfly is a note taking app where your ideas come first. It provides a simple UI with powerful customization.

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Painting

Textual Paint – MS Paint in your terminal

October 2, 2024 Steve Emms Graphics, TUI

Textual Paint is a TUI (Text User Interface) image editor, inspired by MS Paint.

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Text Editing

zk – plain text note-taking assistant

October 1, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity

zk is a command-line tool helping you to maintain a plain text Zettelkasten or personal wiki.

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Painting tools

BlockPaint – terminal-based painting tool

October 1, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

BlockPaint is a painting program that allows you to draw pixel graphics in the terminal using the mouse.

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Log Analyzers

QLogExplorer – tool for exploring log files

October 1, 2024 Steve Emms System Software

QLogExplorer is billed as an advanced tool for exploring log files.

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Best Free and Open Source Software: September 2024 Updates

October 1, 2024 Steve Emms Software

September 2024 updates to the largest compilation of recommended free and open source software available for Linux.

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jot – note management for the terminal

October 1, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity

Jot is a feature-stripped version of Obsidian focused on rapid note management through the terminal.

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Log Analyzers

Chipmunk – logfile viewer and analyzer

October 1, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

Chipmunk is a fast logfile viewer that can deal with huge logfiles (>10 GB).

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Art

Artem – convert images to ASCII art

September 30, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

Artem is a small cli program to easily convert images to ascii art, named after the Latin word for art.

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Circuit board

ArTTY – art for your TTY

September 30, 2024 Steve Emms System Software

ArTTY is billed as “Art for your TTY”.

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Notes

Folio – Markdown note-taking app for GNOME

September 30, 2024 Steve Emms Productivity

Folio is billed as a beautiful markdown note-taking app for GNOME. It’s a fork of Paper.

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Technology

jdvrif – hide files within a JPG cover image

September 29, 2024 Steve Emms Security

Hide files within a JPG cover image using this steganography-like privacy tool.

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System

Calamares – installer framework

September 28, 2024 Steve Emms System Software

Calamares is an installer framework. By design it is very customizable, in order to satisfy a wide variety of needs and use cases.

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