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Text Editor

Pragtical – practical and pragmatic code editor

December 5, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Programming

Pragtical is a cross-platform code editor with a modern graphical interface, developed using C and Lua(JIT), powered by SDL

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Apple Numbers

xleak – Excel files in your terminal

December 5, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Office, TUI

xleak brings Excel spreadsheets to the terminal with beautiful rendering, powerful export capabilities, and a feature-rich interactive TUI.

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Apple Numbers

Vex – Excel viewer

December 5, 2025 Steve Emms Office, TUI

Vex is a beautiful, fast, and feature-rich terminal-based Excel and CSV viewer built with Go.

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Gaming Chat

Rivet – terminal UI Discord client

December 5, 2025 Steve Emms Internet, TUI

Rivet is a terminal UI Discord client written in Rust. It’s in an early stage of development.

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Selection of utilities

makeself – make self-extractable archives

December 5, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

makeself.sh is a small shell script to create self-extracting tar.gz archives.

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SSD

dusage – command-line disk usage information tool

December 4, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

dusage is a command line disk usage information tool written in the Rust programming language.

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Platform Games

Clone Dash – clone of Muse Dash game

December 4, 2025 Steve Emms Games

Clone Dash is a cross-platform clone of Muse Dash, a parkour-rhythm game combination.

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Selection of utilities

SearXNG – privacy-respecting, hackable metasearch engine

December 4, 2025 Steve Emms Internet

SearXNG is a free and open source internet metasearch engine which aggregates results from up to 247 search services.

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Photo Gallery

MyPhotoShare – static web photo, audio and video gallery

December 4, 2025 Steve Emms Web Apps

MyPhotoShare is a static web photo, audio and video gallery with advanced features.

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Web Browsers

Iocaine – defense mechanism against unwanted scrapers

December 4, 2025 Steve Emms Internet

Iocaine is a defense mechanism against unwanted scrapers, sitting between upstream resources and the fronting reverse proxy.

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Podcast

Audiobookshelf – self-hosted audiobook and podcast server

December 3, 2025 Steve Emms Multimedia, Web Apps

Audiobookshelf is a self-hosted audiobook and podcast server.

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Music

Pano Scrobbler – cross-platform music tracker

December 3, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Pano Scrobbler is a feature packed cross-platform music tracker for Last.fm, ListenBrainz, Libre.fm, Pleroma and other compatible services.

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Video-Emulators

Pegasus – graphical frontend for browsing your game library

December 3, 2025 Steve Emms Emulators, Games

Pegasus is a graphical frontend for browsing your game library and launching all kinds of emulators from the same place.

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Monitoring

treex – fast, and customizable CLI directory viewer

December 3, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Treex (Tree Explorer) is a lightweight and modern command-line utility that lets you explore your file system visually.

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Machine Learning in Linux

Lotion – unofficial Notion.so desktop application for Linux

December 3, 2025 Steve Emms Scientific

Notion is a single space where you can think, write and plan. Capture thoughts, manage projects, or even run an entire company

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DNA

oxDNA – DNA/RNA simulator with CUDA support

December 3, 2025 Steve Emms Scientific

oxDNA is an extensible simulation+analysis framework. The nucleic-acid-related force fields are implemented: oxDNA1, oxDNA2, oxRNA, oxNA.

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Compositing Window Managers

hypr-cycle – cycle through workspaces on the currently focused monitor in Hyprland

December 2, 2025 Steve Emms Desktop, Utilities

hypr-cycle is a fast, minimal Rust utility to cycle through workspaces on the currently focused monitor in Hyprland.

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Selection of utilities

InstantCLI – consolidating lots of instantOS stuff into a single CLI

December 2, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

InstantCLI is a powerful, Rust-based command-line tool for managing dotfiles, game saves, system diagnostics, and instantOS configurations.

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CodeContexter – simple codebase serializer for LLM Context Windows

December 2, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

CodeContexter is a safety-first CLI tool that aggregates your entire codebase into a single, structured file (Markdown, JSON, or XML).

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Machine Learning in Linux

Crush – terminal-based AI assistant

December 2, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Scientific

Crush is a powerful terminal-based AI assistant that helps with software development tasks.

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