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Opal – listen to relaxing background music

June 30, 2023 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews, Software, Utilities

Opal is a small utility that’s designed to do one thing — listen to relaxing background music. It’s written in Java.

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Music

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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yarr – yet another rss reader

June 29, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

yarr is a web-based feed aggregator which can be used both as a desktop application and a personal self-hosted server.

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Newspipe – Python-based news aggregator using Flask, asyncio and SQLAlchemy

June 29, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

Newspipe is a web news aggregator. The core technologies are Flask, asyncio and SQLAlchemy.

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Stringer – self-hosted, anti-social RSS reader

June 29, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

Stringer is billed as a self-hosted, anti-social RSS reader. Stringer has no external dependencies, no social recommendations/sharing, and no fancy machine learning algorithms. This is free and open source software. Website: github.com/stringer-rss/stringer Support: Developer: Matt Swanson License: MIT License Stringer

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FreshRSS – self-hosted RSS feed aggregator

June 29, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

FreshRSS is a self-hosted RSS and Atom feed aggregator. It is lightweight, powerful, and customizable.

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CommaFeed – bloat-free feed reader

June 29, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

CommaFeed is a Google Reader inspired self-hosted open source RSS reader, based on Dropwizard and React/TypeScript.

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selfoss – multi-purpose RSS reader

June 29, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

selfoss is a multi-purpose RSS reader, data stream, mash-up, aggregation web application.

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CPU

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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Latest News

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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Documentation

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 Reviews, Software

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

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SSH

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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Encrypted Files

rage – simple encryption tool

June 22, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

rage is a simple, modern, and secure file encryption tool. It features small explicit keys, no config options, and UNIX-style composability.

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Find

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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Find

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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Find

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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Calculators

Pebbles – calculator app

June 16, 2023 Steve Emms Productivity

Pebbles is billed as an advanced calculator application. This is a Gtk-based app.

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