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Festival is a Music Player with a Special Interface

June 30, 2023 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews, Software

Festival is a graphical music player for local album collections. It’s written in Rust and published under an open source license.

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Premake – simple build configuration

June 29, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Premake is a command line utility which reads a scripted definition of a software project and uses it to generate project files for toolsets.

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CPU

just – save and run project-specific commands

June 29, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

just is a handy way to save and run project-specific commands. This is free and open source software written in Rust.

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Fluent Reader – modern desktop RSS reader

June 29, 2023 Erik Karlsson Internet, Reviews, Software

Fluent Reader is a desktop news reader application. It’s built using Electron. Here’s our review of the application.

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pgcli – Postgres CLI with autocompletion and syntax highlighting

June 27, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

pgcli is a Postgres client that does auto-completion and syntax highlighting.

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Koodo Reader – all-in-one ebook reader

June 26, 2023 Steve Emms Documents, GUI, Reviews

Koodo Reader is an all-in-one ebook reader that can help you better manage and study your ebooks.

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Eternal Terminal – remote shell

June 24, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Eternal Terminal (ET) is a remote shell that automatically reconnects without interrupting the session. It’s written in C++.

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SSH

Mosh – replacement for interactive SSH terminals

June 24, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Mosh is a replacement for interactive SSH terminals. It’s more robust and responsive, especially over Wi-Fi and cellular.

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xjobs – similar to xargs with enhanced support for multiprocessor machines

June 19, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

xjobs reads job descriptions line by line and executes them in parallel. It limits the number of parallel executing jobs.

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kindd – dd GUI

June 18, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

kindd is billed as a kindful dd. It’s written using Qt Quick, a software application framework. Open source software.

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dd_rescue – data recovery and data protection tool

June 18, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

dd_rescue copies data from one file or block device to another. You can specify file positions (called seek and Skip in dd).

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Documentation

Hypercalc – interpreted calculator

June 14, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Hypercalc is an interpreted calculator program designed to calculate extremely large numbers.

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Emojis

Flemozi – lightweight emoji picker

June 14, 2023 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, Utilities

Flemozi is a simple, fast, and lightweight picker for desktop operating systems. It’s written in Dart.

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rust-parallel – execute commands in parallel

June 12, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

rust-parallel is a command-line utility to execute commands in parallel and aggregate their output. It’s written in Rust.

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rargs – xargs + awk with pattern matching support

June 12, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Think of rargs as similar to xargs and awk with pattern-matching support. It’s written in the Rust programming language.

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parallel – shell tool for executing jobs in parallel

June 12, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

parallel is a shell tool for executing jobs in parallel using one or more computers. This tool is written in Perl.

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Documentation

xxd – make a hexdump or do the reverse

June 11, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

xxd creates a hex dump of a given file or standard input. It can also convert a hex dump back to its original binary form.

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uq – removes duplicate lines from the output, regardless of the order

June 11, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

uq is a simple, user-friendly alternative to sort | uniq. It removes duplicate lines from the output, regardless of the order.

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semiuniq – uniq-like tool

June 11, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

The semiuniq program reads over lines of input and write lines of output that are “semi-unique” by eliminating repeated lines that are close.

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runiq – filter duplicate lines from input

June 11, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

runiq offers an efficient way (in both time and space) to filter duplicate entries (lines) from textual input.

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