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Task Manager

Vikunja – to-do app to organize your life

October 17, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

Vikunja is billed as the to-do app to organize your life. It’s written in the Go language.

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Audio Analyzers

MasVisGtk – audio analysis tool

October 17, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

MasVisGtk is a powerful and comprehensive audio analysis tool specifically designed for music enthusiasts, audio engineers, and others.

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Manga

HakuNeko – manga and anime downloader

October 16, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Other

HakuNeko was made to help users downloading media for circumstances that require offline usage.

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Files

Letters – word processor for GNOME

October 16, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, GUI

Letters is a modern, minimalist word processor for the GNOME desktop, with support for reading and writing DOCX, ODT, MD and HTML

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Game Tools

MCA Selector – manage Minecraft chunks

October 16, 2025 Steve Emms Games, GUI

MCA Selector is an external tool for Minecraft Java Edition that lets you visualize, select, export, or delete world chunks and region files.

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Video-Emulators

Ymir – Sega Saturn Emulator

October 16, 2025 Steve Emms Emulators, Games

Ymir is a work-in-progress Sega Saturn emulator. It’s written in the C language and published under the GPL.

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Rate My OpenAPI – improve the quality of your OpenAPI specifications

October 16, 2025 Eilidih Parris CLI, Programming

Rate My OpenAPI is a suite of tools designed to help software developers who are using OpenAPI to design and implement their APIs.

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Comic Books

mandown – comic downloader

October 15, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Other

Mandown is a comic downloader and a CBZ, EPUB, MOBI, and/or PDF converter.

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Selection of utilities

YAFI – Yet Another Framework Interface

October 15, 2025 Steve Emms System Software

YAFI is another GUI for the Framework Laptop Embedded Controller. It is written in Python with a GTK4 Adwaita theme

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kotatsu-dl – cli manga downloader

October 15, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Other

kotatsu-dl is an easy-to-use cross-platform manga downloader with a lot of manga sources supported.

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Desktop

Mending Wall – fixes common problems when using more than one desktop environment

October 15, 2025 Steve Emms Desktop, GUI, Utilities

Mending Wall is a Linux application to fix issues when hopping between multiple desktop environments.

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oval – CLI for (O)penAPI Specification document (val)idation

October 15, 2025 Eilidih Parris CLI, Programming

oval is an OpenAPI Specification (OAS) document validator that was built to replace the CLI provided by swagger-tools.

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Mixer

KMix – sound mixer

October 15, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

KMix is an application that allows you to change the volume of your sound card.

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mloader – download manga from mangaplus

October 14, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Other

mloader is a command-line utility that lets you download manga from mangplus.

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Git Clients

GitHub Desktop – Electron-based GitHub app

October 14, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Programming

GitHub Desktop is an open-source Electron-based GitHub app. It is written in TypeScript and uses React. This fork adds Linux support.

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OpenAPI Spec validator – validates OpenAPI Specs

October 14, 2025 Eilidih Parris CLI, Programming

OpenAPI Spec Validator is a CLI, pre-commit hook and python package that validates OpenAPI Specs against the OpenAPI 2.0 (aka Swagger), OpenAPI 3.0 and OpenAPI 3.1 specification.

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Network

wol.rs – Wake On LAN library and command line tool

October 14, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

wol.rs is a Wake On LAN magic packet command line tool and crate.

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Git Clients

Jig – Git pre-commit hook on steroids

October 14, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

Jig is a command line tool and framework for getting more from the Git pre-commit hook.

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SSD

colordf – colored and configurable version of df

October 13, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

colordf is a colored and configurable version of df, forked from cdf.

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OAS-Kit – convert Swagger 2.0 definitions to OpenAPI 3.0

October 13, 2025 Eilidih Parris CLI, Programming

OAS-Kit converts Swagger 2.0 definitions to OpenAPI 3.0 and resolve/validate/lint.

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