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Audio Analyzers

Cable – tool to dynamically modify Pipewire and Wireplumber settings

November 9, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Cable is a PyQT GUI application to dynamically modify Pipewire and Wireplumber settings at runtime.

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Video Games

Battle City – remake of multidirectional shooter video game

November 9, 2025 Steve Emms Games, GUI

Battle City contains 35 different stages that are 13 units wide by 13 units high. Each map contains different types of terrain and obstacles.

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axx – generalized assembler

November 8, 2025 Steve Emms Programming

axx.py is a general assembler that generalizes assemblers. In theory, it can process almost any von Neumann type processor architecture.

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vizex

pkgdu – display Arch packages disk usage size

November 8, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

pkgdu is a tool to display packages disk usage size for Arch Linux.

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SSD

duviz – render ASCII-art representation of disk space usage

November 8, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

duviz is a (Python 3) command-line tool to visualize disk space usage.

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Selection of utilities

Arch Linux MCP Server – Arch Linux MCP (Model Context Protocol)

November 7, 2025 Steve Emms System Software

Arch Linux MCP Server is a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that bridges AI assistants with the Arch Linux ecosystem.

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YouTube

Ytui-music – TUI YouTube Music Player

November 7, 2025 Steve Emms Multimedia, TUI

Ytui-music is a Youtube client in the terminal for listening to music.

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Software

GuiMan – frontend for Pacman and AUR

November 7, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

GuiMan is a GUI frontend for pacman and AUR that claims it actually works.

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SSD

dut – disk usage calculator

November 5, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

By default, dut will output a tree of the biggest directories it finds under your current directory.

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Database

vkCommander – GUI application for monitoring and analyzing Valkey databases

November 5, 2025 Steve Emms Database, GUI

vkCommander is a Desktop Manager for Valkey databases with an intuitive interface for connecting to Valkey instances.

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SSD

Bonsai – TUI remake of GNOME Baobab

November 5, 2025 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

Bonsai is a terminal user interface (TUI) remake of the GNOME Baobab disk usage analyzer.

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Task Manager

taskfinder – extracts and displays tasks from plain text files

November 5, 2025 Steve Emms Productivity, TUI

Keep your project-related tasks where they belong. taskfinder, a terminal user interface (TUI), will extract and display them.

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Game Tools

Ball2Box – casual ball game

November 4, 2025 Steve Emms Games

Ball2Box is a causal ball game. Swipe to shoot the ball into the box in over 100 levels with only one finger.

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System Administration

asroot – simpler alternative to sudo and doas

November 4, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

asroot is a command-line utility to run a process as the root user. It’s written in the C language

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Administrators in action

sudo-rs – memory safe implementation of sudo and su

November 4, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

sudo-rs is a safety oriented and memory safe implementation of sudo and su written in Rust. It’s an independent implementation.

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Selection of utilities

jet – Just Edit Text

November 3, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Jet allows you to replace all the substrings matched by specified regular expressions in one or more files.

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Video Editing

Pineapple Steam Recording Exporter

November 3, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Pineapple Steam Recording Exporter is a tool for exporting video recorded by Steam as MP4 files quickly and without losing any quality.

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Video-Emulators

Rosalie’s Mupen GUI – frontend to play Nintendo 64 games

November 3, 2025 Steve Emms Emulators, Games, GUI

Rosalie’s Mupen GUI is an easy to use yet customizable mupen64plus front-end, allowing you to easily play Nintendo 64 games.

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Selection of utilities

Noctalia – minimal desktop shell for Wayland

November 3, 2025 Steve Emms Desktop, Utilities

Noctalia is billed as a beautiful, minimal desktop shell for Wayland that actually gets out of your way.

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Wattage – monitor the health and status of power devices

November 2, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, System Software

Wattage is an application designed for monitoring the health and status of your power devices.

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