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Lutim – Let’s Upload That Image

June 1, 2023 Steve Emms Web Apps

Lutim stores images and allows you to see them, download them or share them on social networks. It’s written in JavaScript.

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Photoview – photo gallery for self-hosted personal servers

June 1, 2023 Steve Emms Web Apps

Photoview is a simple and user-friendly photo gallery that’s made for photographers and provides an easy and fast way to navigate directories.

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LibrePhotos – self-hosted photo management service

June 1, 2023 Steve Emms Web Apps

LibrePhotos keeps all your photos and metadata on your local machine. Your data is never sent to or stored on a 3rd party server.

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skim – fuzzy finder

June 1, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

skim is a fuzzy finder. It can be used as a general filter (like grep) or as an interactive interface for invoking commands.

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please – polite regex-first sudo alternative

June 1, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

please is a small utility to delegate accurate least privilege access with ease. It’s written in the Rust programming language.

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Sed-Go – an implementation of sed in Go

June 1, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Sed-Go is an implementation of sed in Go. This sed engine can be embedded in your program.

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sd – find and replace CLI

June 1, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

sd is an intuitive find and replace CLI. sd uses regex syntax that you already know from JavaScript and Python.

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bropages – readable supplement to man pages

June 1, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

bropages is a highly readable supplement to man pages. The CLI tool shows simple, concise examples for commands with syntax highlighting.

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tlrc – tldr client written in Rust

June 1, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

tlrc is a tldr client written in Rust. The tldr-pages project is a collection of community-maintained help pages for command-line tools.

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May 31, 2023 Erik Karlsson Software

Here are the latest updates to our compilation of recommended software. Open source software at its finest.

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Administrators in action

doas – execute commands as another user

May 31, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

The doas utility is a program originally written for OpenBSD which allows a user to run a command as though they were another user.

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Administrators in action

pkexec – execute a command as another user

May 31, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

pkexec allows an authorized user to execute a command as another user.

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Administrators in action

su – run a command with substitute user and group ID

May 31, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

su allows commands to be run with a substitute user and group ID.

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Administrators in action

dzdo – execute commands with the privileges of another user

May 31, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

dzdo is a command-line tool used to execute commands with the privileges of another user, such as the superuser or root user.

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Files

xtmsplit – Xtremsplit-compliant file splitter and merger

May 29, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

xtmsplit is a command line program that allows to use or create .xtm files, like the Xtremsplit program allows on Windows.

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Files

filesplitter – split large file into multiple small files

May 29, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

filesplitter is a CLI tool that split large files into multiple small files. It’s written in the Python programming language.

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System Administration

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple Activity Monitor

May 26, 2023 Steve Emms Software, System Software

Activity Monitor displays a variety of resources in use on a system in real time. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.

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Documentation

plocate – much faster locate

May 25, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

plocate is a locate based on posting lists, completely replacing mlocate with a much faster (and smaller) index.

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Documentation

mlocate – locate/updatedb implementation

May 25, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

mlocate is a locate/updatedb implementation, a utility for finding files by name quickly. This is free and open source software.

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Monitoring

alder – minimal implementation of tree

May 19, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

alder is a recursive directory listing program that supports file-size reporting, and pattern matching. Written in JavaScript.

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