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zomodoro – simple pomodoro

October 29, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Programming

zomodoro is a simple pomodoro made with Qt.

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Reference Managers

BibMan – TUI bibliography manager

October 28, 2025 Steve Emms Education, TUI

BibMan is a TUI bibliography manager. Its goal is to support basis features as a general bibliography manager.

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Video-Emulators

Gamepad Mirror – visualize gamepad inputs

October 28, 2025 Steve Emms Games

Gamepad Mirror is a simple application to visualize a gamepad’s input. It’s written in JavaScript.

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Selection of utilities

mtr-gtk – network diagnostic tool

October 28, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

mtr-gtk combines the functionality of the ‘traceroute’ and ‘ping’ programs in a single network diagnostic tool.

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Speech

Whispering – speech recognition tool

October 28, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Press shortcut → speak → get text. Desktop transcription that cuts out the middleman.

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luha – simple file checksum tool

October 27, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

luha is a simple file checksum command-line interface tool.

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PDF

npdfr – command-line PDF reader

October 27, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, TUI

npdfr (ncurses PDF reader) is a command-line PDF reader prioritizing fast searches.

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16 Best Free and Open Source Linux Serial Terminals

October 27, 2025 Steve Emms Roundup, Utilities

A serial terminal is software that allows communication with devices through a serial port, often used for debugging embedded systems.

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Essential Utilities to Boost Producitivity

lunas – syncing cli tool

October 27, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

lunas is a syncing cli tool that can handle more than two directories locally and remotely.

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Reference Managers

Bibman – BIBliography MANager

October 27, 2025 Steve Emms Education, TUI

Bibman (BIBliography MANager) is a small console tool for managing BibTeX files. It’s written in Perl .

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Documents

lv – directory listing and counting tool

October 27, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

iv is a directory listing and counting tool written in C++.

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Data Science

Hydraulics Channel GVF – compute water surface profiles

October 26, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Scientific

Hydraulics Channel GVF computes water surface profiles in a prismatic channel for gradually varied flow.

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Selection of utilities

Share Preview – test social media cards locally

October 26, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Share Preview lets you review and debug websites metadata tags for social media share.

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Game Tools

Draughts – comprehensive draughts (checkers) game

October 26, 2025 Steve Emms Games, GUI

Draughts is a comprehensive checkers/draughts game featuring 16 international game variants, multiple AI difficulty levels

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Mangal – CLI manga downloader

October 26, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Other

Mangal is billed as an advanced CLI manga downloader.

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Mixer

deej – open-source hardware volume mixer

October 26, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

deej is an open-source hardware volume mixer for Linux and Windows computers.

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Anti-Malware Tools

Lenspect – scan files for threats

October 25, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Security

Lenspect is a lightweight security threat scanner intended to make malware detection more accessible and efficient.

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Development

Positron – next-generation data science IDE

October 25, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Programming, Scientific

Positron is a next-generation data science IDE. It’s also an extensible, polyglot tool for writing code and exploring data.

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Backup software

httm – file-level Time Machine-like tool

October 25, 2025 Steve Emms System Software

httm is an interactive, file-level Time Machine-like tool for ZFS/btrfs/nilfs2 (and even Time Machine and Restic backups).

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Stakpak – terminal-native DevOps Agent

October 25, 2025 Steve Emms Software

Stakpak can run commands, edit files, search docs, and more. It has security super powers, and generates high quality IaC.

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