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ircc – minimal curses IRC client

August 22, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

ircc is a simple IRC client. It’s written in the C programming language and requires the ncurses library to compile.

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glirc – advanced console IRC client

August 22, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

glirc is built around a philosophy that the client maintains a model of the IRC connection state and provides various views of that model.

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Manticore Search – easy-to-use fast database for search

August 20, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

Manticore Search is an easy to use open source fast database for search. It bills itself as a good alternative for Elasticsearch.

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OpenPGP – email encryption

August 19, 2023 Steve Emms Internet, Security

OpenPGP is the most widely used email encryption standard. It’s also used encrypted messaging and other use cases such as password managers.

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ptpython – better Python REPL

August 18, 2023 Steve Emms Programming

ptpython is an advanced Python Read-Eval-Print Loop (REPL). It’s an alternative to IPython and bpython. Free and open source software.

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Google Calendar Alternatives

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Google Calendar

August 17, 2023 Steve Emms Productivity, Reviews, Software

Google Calendar is a time-management and scheduling calendar service developed by Google. We recommend open source alternatives.

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sabre/dav – CardDAV, CalDAV and WebDAV server

August 17, 2023 Steve Emms Web Apps

sabre/dav is a popular WebDAV framework for PHP. Use it to create WebDAV, CalDAV and CardDAV servers. Free and open source software.

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YTalk – multi-user chat program

August 14, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

YTalk is in essence a multi-user chat program supporting both talk and ntalk protocols.

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utalk – UDP-based talk

August 14, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

utalk is a one-to-one text chat program alternative to the Unix ‘talk’ client, which uses a more responsive protocol built over UDP (instead of TCP).

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ntalk – chat application

August 14, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

ntalk is a chat application. It is designed to be much more friendly than Unix talk and provide a nice console interface.

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Fractals

Qosmic – cosmic recursive flame fractal editor

August 13, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics

Qosmic is a cosmic recursive flame fractal editor. It’s written in the C++ programming language and published under an open source license.

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Fractals

JWildfire – user-friendly fractal flame editor

August 13, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics

JWildfire is a very powerful and flexible flame fractal generator that has been battle-tested by numerous fractal artists.

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NVUI – modern frontend for Neovim

August 12, 2023 Steve Emms Documents

NVUI is a modern frontend for Neovim. It uses the cross-platform Qt widget toolkit. This is free and open source software.

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Text Editor

Neoray – simple and lightweight GUI client for Neovim

August 12, 2023 Steve Emms Documents

Neoray is a simple and lightweight GUI client for Neovim. It uses GLFW and OpenGL bindings and is written in the Go language.

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go-dsp-guitar – multichannel multi-effects processor

August 11, 2023 Steve Emms Multimedia

go-dsp-guitar implements a cross-platform multichannel multi-effects processor for electric guitars and other instruments.

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rename.pl – rename files using Perl expressions

August 11, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

rename.pl allows renaming files using Perl code, such as regular expression replaces (s/old/new/), character translation, and other code.

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rename – rename multiple files

August 11, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

This program renames files according to modification rules specified on the command line.

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hodie – prints the date in Latin

August 10, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

hodie brings new functionality to your UNIX installations. It prints out the current date and time in Roman digits.

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datemath – date and time math utility

August 10, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

datemath is a command line date and time math utility. This is free and open source software written in the C language.

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qtime – clock coded in Rust

August 10, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

qTime is a simple command-line application that retrieves the current user’s name and displays it along with the current date and time.

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