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LibreSprite – create 2D animations for videogames

October 23, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics

LibreSprite is software to create and animate sprites. LibreSprite originated as a fork of Aseprite, developed by David Capello.

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csprite – tiny pixel art tool

October 23, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics

csprite is a tiny pixel art tool written in C++ and C. It’s a fork of Sixel.

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Pixelorama – pixel art editor

October 23, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics

Pixelorama is a pixel art editor. It is created with the Godot Engine. This is free and open source software.

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Compositing Window Managers

sway – tiling Wayland compositor and a drop-in replacement for the i3 window manager

October 23, 2023 Steve Emms Desktop

Sway is an i3-compatible tiling Wayland compositor and a drop-in replacement for the i3 window manager for X11.

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zplug – plugin manager for zsh

October 23, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

zplug is billed as a next-generation plugin manager for Zsh. Zsh is an extended Bourne shell with many improvements, including some features of Bash, ksh, and tcsh.

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Zinit – flexible and fast Zsh plugin manager

October 23, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

Zinit is a flexible and fast Zshell plugin manager that will allow you to install everything from GitHub and other sites.

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Zim – Zsh configuration framework

October 23, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

Zim is a Zsh configuration framework that bundles a plugin manager, useful modules, and a wide variety of themes.

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Zi – Swiss Army Knife for Zsh

October 23, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

Zi is billed as a “Swiss Army Knife” for Zsh. Zsh is an extended Bourne shell with many improvements.

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Zap – minimal zsh plugin manager

October 23, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

Zap is a minimal Zsh plugin manager. This is free and open source software.

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zgen – lightweight plugin manager for Zsh

October 23, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

zgen is a lightweight plugin manager for Zsh inspired by Antigen. Keep your .zshrc clean and simple. This is free and open source software.

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Pretzo – configuration framework for Zsh

October 23, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

Pretzo is a configuration framework for Zsh. It aims to enrich the command line interface environment. Free and open source software.

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podfox – podcatching for the terminal

October 23, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

podfox is software for managing and catching podcasts from the terminal. It depends upon feedparser, requests and colorama.

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neon-podcaster – listen to podcasts using RSS

October 23, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

neon-podcaster is a command line podcast client to listen to any podcast episode using RSS. This is free and open source software.

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podget – simple podcast aggregator

October 23, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

Podget is a simple open source podcast aggregator optimized for running as a scheduled background job (i.e. cron).

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greg – command-line podcast aggregator

October 23, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

greg is a command-line podcast aggregator. It exposes some of the functionality of the feedparser program. It’s free and open source.

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yapa – basic podcast aggregator and player

October 23, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

Yet Another Podcast App (yapa) is a super basic podcast aggregator. yapa needs mpv to play podcasts. Written in Go.

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hpodder – scan and download podcasts

October 23, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

hpodder is a tool to scan and download podcasts. This type of tool is often known as a podcatcher. This is free and open source software.

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Podbit – Podboat Improved

October 23, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

Podbit is a replacement for newsboat’s standard podboat tool for listening to podcasts.

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Shellcaster – terminal-based podcast manager

October 23, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

Shellcaster is a terminal-based podcast manager .It provides a terminal user interface (i.e., an ncurses-like interface).

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castget – simple, command-line based RSS enclosure downloader

October 23, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

castget is a simple, command-line based RSS enclosure downloader. It is primarily intended for automatic, unattended downloading of podcasts.

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