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BookLore – organize and manage your book collection

January 30, 2026 Steve Emms Web Apps

BookLore is a powerful, self-hosted web application designed to organize and manage your personal book collection with elegance and ease.

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PDF

miro – PDF viewer

January 30, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, GUI

miro is a native pdf viewer for Linux (Wayland/X11), macOS, and Windows with configurable keybindings.

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jolt – terminal-based battery and energy monitor

January 30, 2026 Steve Emms System Software, TUI

jolt provides real-time insights into power consumption, process energy usage, and battery health—all in a clean, themeable TUI.

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Image of Files

gump – smarter cd command

January 29, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

gump is a directory jumper using frecency. Type directory fragments, land where you meant.

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Files

hygg – minimalistic Vim-like TUI document reader

January 29, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, TUI

hygg is a minimalistic Vim-like TUI document reader.

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File Managers

Fint – keyboard-driven GUI file manager

January 29, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Web Apps

Fint is billed as a high-performance, keyboard-driven GUI file manager for Linux, combining TUI efficiency with GUI media capabilities.

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Graphics

todds – CPU-based DDS texture encoder

January 28, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

todds is a CPU-based DDS texture encoder optimized for fast batch conversions with high encoding quality.

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Circuit board

dmitui – TUI version of dmidecode

January 28, 2026 Steve Emms System Software, TUI

dmitui is a TUI (Text User Interface) version that allows for easy navigation between sections, unlike dmidecode.

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Music Streaming

Kino – media browser for Plex and Jellyfin servers

January 28, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia, TUI

Kino is a fast terminal client for browsing and playing media from Plex and Jellyfin servers.

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Media Center

jfsh – terminal-based client for Jellyfin

January 28, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia, TUI

jfsh is a terminal-based client for Jellyfin that lets you browse your media library and play videos via mpv. It’s inspired by jftui.

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Video Conversion

video-compare – split-screen video comparison tool

January 28, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

video-compare is a split-screen video comparison tool, utilizing FFmpeg libraries and SDL2.

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Selection of utilities

LiDM – light login manager

January 27, 2026 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

LiDM is a really light unix login manager made in C which aims to be highly customizable

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YouTube

Rataplay – TUI to search, play and download videos

January 27, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia, TUI

Rataplay is a Terminal User Interface (TUI) for searching, playing, and downloading videos. Built with Rust and inspired by GopherTube.

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ugdb – TUI for gdb

January 27, 2026 Steve Emms Programming, TUI

ugdb is an unsegen based alternative TUI for gdb.

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Network

Gurren – SSH tunnel manager

January 27, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Internet, TUI

Gurren is a fast, terminal-based SSH tunnel manager with a TUI and background service.

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Notes

LinNote – keyboard-driven scratchpad

January 27, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

LinNote is a fast, keyboard-driven scratchpad for Linux. It’s built for KDE Plasma with Qt6.

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Arsse – Advanced RSS Environment

January 27, 2026 Steve Emms Internet

The Arsse is a news aggregator server, written in PHP, which implements multiple synchronization protocols.

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Stopwatch

pomoru – minimalist Pomodoro TUI

January 27, 2026 Steve Emms Productivity, TUI

pomoru is a keyboard-driven TUI application for focused work. It’s written in Rust.

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Wiki Engines

Wiki-Go – flat-file wiki platform

January 26, 2026 Steve Emms Web Apps

Wiki-Go is a modern, feature-rich, databaseless flat-file wiki platform built with Go.

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tcpulse – load generator

January 26, 2026 Steve Emms Internet

tcpulse is a concurrent TCP/UDP load generator with fine-grained, flow-level control over connection establishment and data transfer.

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