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phiola – audio player, recorder, converter and streaming server

January 13, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

phiola is billed as a fast audio player, recorder, converter and streaming server. It’s written in C.

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Music

Musicat – desktop music player

January 12, 2026 Luke Baker GUI, Multimedia, Reviews

Musicat is billed as a sleek music player for your local music library. It supports MP3, FLAC, WAV, AAC, and OGG formats.

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DNA

SeqTUI – Terminal Alignment Viewer and Toolkit

January 12, 2026 Steve Emms Scientific, TUI

SeqTUI is a fast terminal-based viewer and command-line toolkit for sequences. View, translate, convert (to FASTA)

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mmtui – TUI disk mount manager

January 12, 2026 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

mmtui is a TUI disk mount manager for TUI file managers for Linux.

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Tools that help you

Mansnip – navigate through man pages

January 12, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Mansnip is a command-line tool that makes Linux manual pages (manpages) easier to search and navigate by extracting relevant snippets.

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btdu – sampling disk usage profiler for btrfs

January 12, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

btdu is a sampling disk usage profiler for btrfs. It’s written in the D language.

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SwiftLint – enforce Swift style and conventions

January 11, 2026 Steve Emms Programming

SwiftLint is a tool to enforce Swift style and conventions, loosely based on the now archived GitHub Swift Style Guide.

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Video Conversion

Yamtrack – self hosted media tracker

January 11, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Yamtrack is a self hosted media tracker for movies, tv shows, anime, manga, video games and books.

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Scrap – block based programming language

January 11, 2026 Steve Emms Programming

Scrap is a new block based programming language with the aim towards advanced users.

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Data Science

BART – Computational Magnetic Resonance Imaging

January 11, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Scientific

The Berkeley Advanced Reconstruction Toolbox (BART) toolbox is an image-reconstruction framework for Computational Magnetic Resonance Imaging.

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WebRTC

mux-media – CLI utility for muxing media

January 11, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

mux-media is a CLI utility for muxing media (e.g. video, audio, subtitles).

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Text Editor

jrnlc – plain-text terminal journal

January 10, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Documents

jrnlc is a personal project built to be simple, fast, and predictable. It stores journal entries in a plain-text file

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Coding

intentrace – strace with intent

January 10, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

intentrace is a strace. It works similarly to strace in that it intercepts and records system calls when a process issues them

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Photo collection

ODiff – native image comparison tool

January 10, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, GUI

ODiff is a fast native image comparison tool. It compares the visual difference between 2 images in milliseconds.

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Vector Graphics

BinVec – convert raster graphics into vector graphics

January 10, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

BinVec is a graphical program that converts raster graphics into vector graphics with real-time previews.

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Image of Files

TBDel – manage files for deletion

January 9, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

TBDel is a simple command-line tool for managing a list of files and directories marked for deletion.

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Network

SSLyze – SSL/TLS scanning tool and Python library

January 9, 2026 Steve Emms Internet

SSLyze is a fast and powerful SSL/TLS scanning tool and Python library.

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Cloud

Az-TUI – manage Azure Container Apps

January 9, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, TUI

Az-TUI is a terminal-based user interface (TUI) for managing Azure Container Apps, inspired by tools like K9s.

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DHV – dive into Python code

January 9, 2026 Steve Emms Programming, TUI

DHV is a terminal-based tool for diving into Python code, giving easy visual access to bytecode disassembly and the abstract syntax tree.

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Backup software

GoBackup – backup your databases

January 9, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

GoBackup is a backup tool design for application servers, to backup your databases, files to cloud storage.

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