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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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ebook reader

epr – CLI Epub Reader

June 29, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Documents

epr is a terminal/CLI ebook reader for Linux. epr is written in Python 3.6.

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epy – fork of epr

June 29, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Documents

epy is a CLI ebook reader. It’s a fork of epr. This is free and open source software written in the Python language.

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baca – TUI Ebook Reader

June 29, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Documents

baca is billed as epy’s lovely sister who lets you indulge in your favorite e-books in the comfort of your terminal.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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bibclean – BiBTeX and Scribe bibliography prettyprinter and syntax checker

June 15, 2023 Steve Emms Education

bibclean prettyprints input BibTeX files to stdout, or to a user-specified file, and checks the brace balance and bibliography entry syntax.

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