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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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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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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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ttyper – terminal-based typing test

August 13, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Education

ttyper is a terminal-based typing test. It supports a good range of languages including English, German, Norwegian, Ukrainian, and Spanish.

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toipe – trusty terminal typing tester

August 13, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Education

toipe is a trusty terminal typing tester. toipe looks best on a nice terminal (such as Alacritty) with color and style support.

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thokr – sleek typing TUI

August 13, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Education

thokr is a sleek typing TUI with visualized results and historical logging. It’s written in the Rust programming language.

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amphetype – advanced typing practice software

August 13, 2023 Steve Emms Education

amphetype is a layout-agnostic typing program. It’s aimed at individuals who don’t need an on-screen keyboard.

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tt – terminal based typing test

August 13, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Education

tt is a terminal based typing test. By default tt creates a test consisting of 50 randomly generated words from the top 1000 English words.

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Mailutils – swiss army knife of electronic mail handling

August 12, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

Mailutils is a swiss army knife of electronic mail handling. It offers a rich set of utilities and daemons for processing e-mail.

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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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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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Documentation

renameutils – programs designed to make renaming of files faster and less cumbersome

August 11, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

The file renaming utilities (renameutils for short) are a set of programs designed to make renaming of files faster and less cumbersome.

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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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rdate – retrieve date and time from other machines

August 10, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

rdate connects to an RFC 868 time server over a TCP/IP network, printing the returned time and/or setting the system clock.

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Network

RazDC Community – Active Directory Domain Controller

August 9, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

RazDC Community is an Active Directory domain controller built on Rocky Linux and Samba4. RazDC Community includes a custom web interface.

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