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Database

PRQL – modern language for transforming data

October 22, 2025 Steve Emms Documents

PRQL is a modern language for transforming data – a simple, powerful, pipelined SQL replacement. It’s readable, explicit and declarative.

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Forkgram – Unofficial Telegram Messenger

October 22, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Internet

Forkgram is billed as a cutting-edge Telegram fork with small Quality-of-Life enhancements.

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Cloud storage

Falco – cloud native runtime security tool

October 22, 2025 Steve Emms Internet, Security

Falco is a cloud native runtime security tool that detects and alerts on abnormal behavior and potential security threats in real-time.

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Selection of utilities

Ntfy Desktop – fully featured desktop client for ntfy

October 22, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Internet

Ntfy Desktop is a fully featured desktop client for ntfy for Linux, built with Qt and C++.

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Oracle – AUR Helper Wrapper

October 21, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Oracle is a modern graphical user interface wrapper for AUR helpers and Pacman.

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Machine Learning in Linux

Nanocoder – local-first CLI coding agent

October 20, 2025 Steve Emms Programming, TUI

Nanocoder is a local-first CLI coding agent that brings the power of agentic coding tools like Claude Code and Gemini CLI to local models

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Files

Jimmy – convert your notes to Markdown

October 20, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Documents, TUI

Jimmy is a tool to convert your notes from different formats to Markdown. It has both a CLI and TUI.

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Selection of utilities

Dinfo – detailed information about a directory

October 20, 2025 Steve Emms Utilities

Dinfo (Directory Info) is a C# tool that provides detailed information about a directory.

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Linux Distributions

CRUX – lightweight Linux distribution

October 20, 2025 Erik Karlsson Distro

CRUX is a lightweight Linux distribution for the x86-64 architecture targeted at experienced Linux users.

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Music

Kalorite – lightweight audio player

October 20, 2025 Luke Baker GUI, Multimedia

Kalorite is a small-size Qt6 audio player that aims to be modern and easy-to-use made for the developer’s needs to use on KDE.

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Annotation tool

Draw Pen – simple screen annotation

October 19, 2025 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

Draw Pen is a simple screen annotation tool that runs under Linux, macOS, and Windows.

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Web Browsers

wyeb – vim-like webkit2gtk web browser

October 19, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Internet

wyeb is a vim-like webkit2gtk web browser. wyeb is inspired by dwb and luakit, so basically usage is similar to them.

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Game Tools

Anagramarama – make words from a jumble of letters

October 18, 2025 Steve Emms Games, GUI

Anagramarama is a simple wordgame. Guess all the different permutations of a scrambled word which form another word within the time limit.

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Selection of utilities

DOSBox Staging – DOS/x86 emulator with advanced features

October 18, 2025 Steve Emms Emulators

DOSBox Staging is a modern continuation of DOSBox with advanced features and current development practices.

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Singing

LRCGET – download synced LRC lyrics

October 17, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

LRCGET is a utility for mass-downloading LRC synced lyrics for your offline music library.

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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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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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