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Configuring music

Lichen – multi-headphone audio router for Linux

December 15, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

Lichen lets you route audio to multiple headphones simultaneously and mix multiple microphones into a single virtual input.

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Circuit board

rustffetch – neofetch-like information manager

December 15, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

rustffetch is a simple, fast and flexible neofetch-like information manager.

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Documentation

mping – simple multicast ping

December 14, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

mping aspires to be an easy to use and script friendly program with support for both IPv4 and IPv6.

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Database

sling – slings from a data source to a data target

December 14, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Database

Sling offers an easy solution to create and maintain small to medium volume data pipelines using the Extract & Load (EL) approach.

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Plakar – scalable backup solution

December 14, 2025 Steve Emms System Software, Web Apps

Plakar provides a powerful, and scalable backup solution. Besides file-level backups it captures application data with its full context.

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WebRTC

Say – terminal‑first voice and video call utility

December 14, 2025 Steve Emms Multimedia, TUI

Say is a terminal‑first voice and video call utility that builds an embedded Yggdrasil node via ygg and speaks directly to other peers over the Ygg overlay network.

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AAAAXY – nonlinear 2D puzzle platformer

December 14, 2025 Steve Emms Games

AAAAXY is a nonlinear 2D puzzle platformer taking place in impossible spaces. Although your general goal is reaching the surprising end of the game, you are encouraged to set your own goals while playing. Exploration will be rewarded, and secrets

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New York

lukaj – interactive diff tool for SVG images

December 14, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

lukaj is an interactive diff tool for SVG images written in Rust.

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aqua – declarative CLI version manager

December 14, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

aqua is a declarative CLI version manager written in Go. It works as a single binary.

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Cloud storage

g1c – Google Cloud Instances Terminal UI Manager

December 13, 2025 Steve Emms Internet, TUI

g1c is a terminal user interface for monitoring and managing Google Cloud Instances.

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SQL

ChartDB – web-based database diagramming editor

December 13, 2025 Steve Emms Database, Web Apps

ChartDB is a powerful, web-based database diagramming editor. Instantly visualize your database schema with a single “Smart Query.”

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Find Duplicates

hgrep – grep with human-friendly search output

December 13, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

hgrep is a grep tool to search files with a given pattern and print the matched code snippets with human-friendly syntax highlighting.

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cdncheck – detect various technology for a given IP address

December 12, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

cdncheck is a tool for identifying the technology associated with dns / ip network addresses.

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Clipboard

PasteLock – encrypted clipboard manager

December 12, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

PasteLock is an encrypted clipboard manager with login, scrollable history and text/image paste storage.

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Text Editor

mq – jq-like command-tool for Markdown processing

December 12, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Documents

mq is a markdown processor that can filter markdown nodes by using jq-like syntax.

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Video-Emulators

Gearcoleco – cross-platform ColecoVision emulator

December 12, 2025 Steve Emms Emulators, Games

Gearcoleco is a very accurate cross-platform ColecoVision emulator written in C++ that runs on Linux, BSD, RetroArch, macOS, and Windows.

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LinuxLinks.com reaches epic milestone

December 12, 2025 Steve Emms News

We at LinuxLinks.com are thrilled to announce a remarkable achievement: we’ve just published our 10,000th article on all things Linux!

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Document viewer

hostman – simple tool for managing file uploads to hosting services

December 12, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

Hostman is a robust, cross-platform command-line application for uploading files (primarily images) to various hosting services.

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Recording Studio

sneemok – screenshot tool

December 12, 2025 Steve Emms Graphics

sneemok is a Wayland screenshot annotation tool written in Zig.

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Keyboard

xremap – key remapper

December 12, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

xremap is a key remapper for Linux. Unlike xmodmap, it supports app-specific remapping and Wayland.

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