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Blender – 3D creation suite

Updated October 19, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

Blender is a 3D creation suite with modelling, sculpting, animation, rendering, Geometry Nodes, compositing and video editing.

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Monitor System

LazyCelery – monitor and manage Celery workers and tasks

February 26, 2026 Steve Emms TUI

LazyCelery is a terminal UI for monitoring and managing Celery workers and tasks, inspired by lazydocker and lazygit.

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ApiSnip – trim OpenAPI specifications

February 26, 2026 Steve Emms Programming, TUI

ApiSnip is a terminal user interface (TUI) tool for trimming OpenAPI specifications down to size.

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Selection of utilities

MapWizard – tool for osu! beatmap editing

February 25, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

MapWizard is a modern tool for osu! beatmap editing, designed to streamline your workflow with features like hitsound transfer.

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Files

MARKTerm – render Markdown in a terminal

February 25, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Documents

Markterm is a library and program to render Markdown to a terminal. It’s inspired by Glow and implemented using Markd.

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Selection of utilities

Tiny RDM – Redis desktop manager

February 25, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Internet

Tiny RDM is a modern lightweight cross-platform Redis desktop manager available for Linux, macOS, and Windows.

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RVVM – RISC-V virtual machine

February 25, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

RVVM is a virtual machine / emulator for RISC-V guests, which emphasizes on performance, security, lean code and portability.

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Best Free and Open Source Navigation Tools

fzf – command-line fuzzy finder

Updated October 24, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity, Utilities

fzf is a command-line fuzzy finder with interactive previews, shell completion, custom key bindings and powerful filtering workflows.

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Find Duplicates

FSearch – inspired by Everything Search Engine

February 25, 2026 Steve Emms Utilities

FSearch is a fast file search open source utility for Linux operating systems, inspired by Everything Search Engine, a desktop search utility.

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Find Duplicates

ANGRYsearch – Linux version of Everything Search Engine

February 25, 2026 Steve Emms Utilities

ANGRYsearch is a fast file search open source utility written in Python for Linux operating systems, inspired by Everything Search Engine.

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FLI – simplifies AWS VPC Flow Logs analysis

February 24, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

FLI is a powerful command-line tool that simplifies AWS VPC Flow Logs analysis with intuitive commands, smart filtering, and more.

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Notes

babi – text editor

February 24, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, TUI

babi is a console-based text editor that’s written in the Python language.

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SST – build full-stack apps

February 24, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

SST is a framework that makes it easy to build modern full-stack applications on your own infrastructure.

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Luminance – control brightness of displays

February 24, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Luminance is a simple GTK application to control brightness of displays including external displays supporting DDC/CI.

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Security

Exosphere – aggregated patch and security update reporting

February 24, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Security, TUI

Exosphere is a CLI and Text UI driven application that offers aggregated patch and security update reporting.

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GCLI – interact with GitHub and more

February 23, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

GCLI is a portable CLI tool for interacting with Git(Hub|Lab|Tea), Forgejo and Bugzilla from the command line.

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Photo collection

Annotator – image annotation tool

February 23, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

Annotator lets you annotate your images and let a picture say 1000 words.

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Text Editor

MerMark Editor – Markdown editor with Mermaid diagram support

February 23, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, GUI

MerMark Editor combines the simplicity of Markdown with the power of Mermaid diagrams in a beautiful, native desktop application.

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Documentation

lore – less-like terminal pager

February 23, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

lore is a very basic less-like terminal pager.

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Selection of utilities

TrackAudio – Audio-For-VSTSIM ATC client

February 23, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Scientific

TrackAudio is a specialized Audio-for-VATSIM (AFV) client application designed for air traffic controllers (ATCs) on the VATSIM network

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