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Network Security

ZMap – fast single packet network scanner

August 3, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Security

ZMap is a fast single-packet network scanner optimized for Internet-wide network surveys.

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Kweather – convergent weather application for Plasma

August 2, 2023 Steve Emms Scientific

Kweather is a convergent weather application for Plasma. It uses KDE Frameworks, xcb windowing system, and Qt.

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Weather – monitor the current weather conditions

August 2, 2023 Steve Emms Scientific

Weather is a small application that allows you to monitor the current weather conditions for your city, or anywhere in the world, and to access updated forecasts provided by various internet services. It shows an hourly and daily forecast. It

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Music

Kronos Is A Terminal Music Player Written in Rust

August 2, 2023 Luke Baker CLI, Multimedia, Reviews, Software

Kronos is a terminal-based music player that’s designed for playing locally stored audio files. It’s written in Rust.

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hurl – run and test HTTP requests with plain text

August 2, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

Hurl is a command line tool that runs HTTP requests defined in a simple plain text format.

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HTTP

xh – fast and friendly tool for sending HTTP requests

August 2, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

xh is a friendly and fast tool for sending HTTP requests. It reimplements as much as possible of HTTPie’s excellent design.

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stringsext – search for multi-byte encoded strings in binary data

August 1, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

stringsext is a Unicode enhancement of the strings tool with additional functionalities.

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Text Editor

ThiefMD – markdown editor

August 1, 2023 Steve Emms Documents

ThiefMD is a Markdown and Fountain editor and file manager inspired by Ulysses.

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Linux recommended software

Best Free and Open Source Software July 2023 Updates

August 1, 2023 Steve Emms Software

July 2023 updates to the largest compilation of recommended free and open source software available for Linux.

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Documentation

sad – Space Age seD

July 28, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

sad is a batch file edit tool. It will show you a really nice diff of proposed changes before you commit them.

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Library Tools

InvenioILS – run a digital library or document repository

July 26, 2023 Steve Emms Education

Invenio ILS is a modern integrated library system. This system is based on Invenio.

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Utilities

45 Outstanding Linux Utilities to Maximize your Productivity

July 25, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Desktop, Productivity, Utilities

This is a series of cornerstone articles highlighting essential utilities. These are small, indispensable tools, useful for anyone running a Linux machine.

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Bioinformatics

Bandage – visualising de novo assembly graphs

July 25, 2023 Steve Emms Scientific

Bandage is a program for visualising de novo assembly graphs. It’s written in C++ and runs under Linux, macOS, and Windows.

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Bioinformatics

Jalview – multiple sequence alignment editing, visualisation and analysis

July 25, 2023 Steve Emms Scientific

Jalview is a cross-platform program for multiple sequence alignment editing, visualisation and analysis. It’s written in Java.

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Utilities

Excellent Utilities: pastel – generate, analyze, convert and manipulate colors

July 25, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software, Utilities

pastel is a command-line tool to generate, analyze, convert and manipulate colors. This tool supports a variety of color formats and color spaces.

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DNA

GIVE – build custom genome browser websites

July 23, 2023 Steve Emms Web Apps

GIVE (Genomic Interactive Visualization Engine) is a HTML5 library that lets you embed genomic visualization panels.

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Documentation

ccat – colorizing cat

July 22, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

ccat is the colorizing cat. It works similar to cat but displays content with syntax highlighting. Written in Go.

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tempy – visually pleasing weather report

July 21, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Scientific

tempy will render a simple, visually pleasing weather report for current and near-future conditions to your terminal.

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Video Conversion

FFQueue – frontend for FFmpeg

July 20, 2023 Steve Emms Multimedia

FFQueue is a graphical user interface for FFMpeg with comprehensive support including filtergraphs and other advanced features.

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Video Conversion

Shutter Encoder – video converter tool

July 20, 2023 Steve Emms Multimedia

Shutter Encoder is a frontend for FFmpeg. It has been designed by video editors in order to be as accessible and efficient as possible.

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