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Cloud storage

Garage – S3-compatible distributed object storage service

August 31, 2025 Steve Emms Internet

Garage is an S3-compatible distributed object storage service designed for self-hosting at a small-to-medium scale.

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Best Free and Open Source Software: August 2025 Updates

August 31, 2025 Steve Emms Software

August 2025 updates to the largest compilation of recommended free and open source software available for Linux.

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tidyall – all-in-one code tidier and validator

August 31, 2025 Eilidih Parris Programming

tidyall is your all-in-one code tidier and validator bringing together a variety of code tidiers and validators.

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Atom Chess – chess engine built using Stockfish and Electron

August 31, 2025 Steve Emms Games

Engine Analysis is performed with Stockfish 17 with the ability to change depth.

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File Managers

File Browser – web file browser

August 31, 2025 Steve Emms Productivity, Web Apps

File Browser provides a file managing interface within a specified directory. Upload, delete, preview and edit your files.

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Super-linter – collection of linters and code analyzers

August 30, 2025 Eilidih Parris Programming

Super-linter is a ready-to-run collection of linters and code analyzers, to help validate and fix your source code.

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Cloud storage

Hoodik – cloud storage solution

August 30, 2025 Steve Emms Internet

Hoodik is a lightweight, secure, and self-hosted cloud storage solution.

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Tetris

Quadrapassel – falling-block game

August 30, 2025 Steve Emms Games, GUI

Quadrapassel is a derivative of a classic falling-block game.

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Coding

MegaLinter – analyzes the consistency of your code

August 30, 2025 Eilidih Parris Programming

MegaLinter is a tool for CI/CD workflows that analyzes the consistency of your code, IAC, configuration, and scripts

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lyrus – cmus lyric player

August 30, 2025 Steve Emms Multimedia, TUI

lyrus is a fully fledged cmus, mpd lyric player automatic lyrics fetcher.

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Video Games

DuckRun – chrome dino game clone

August 29, 2025 Steve Emms Games

DuckRun is a little game about a duck who loves to hop and wants to collect some coins. It’s made with the Godot game engine.

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Fedinspect – analyse Fediverse servers

August 29, 2025 Steve Emms Internet

Fedinspect is a GNOME application to enable developers to inspect and analyse fediverse server configurations.

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Task Manager

Diurnals – get daily Todoist notifications

August 29, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

Diurnals lets you receive a daily popup to notify about upcoming Todoist tasks. It’s simple and easy to configure.

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Cloud storage

ownCloud – content collaboration, file-sharing, and file-syncing

August 29, 2025 Steve Emms Internet

ownCloud is a software system that offers file hosting services. It’s free and open source software widely used.

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remarklint – check Markdown code style

August 29, 2025 Eilidih Parris Programming

remark is an ecosystem of plugins that work with markdown as structured data, specifically ASTs (abstract syntax trees).

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KLog – ham radio logger

August 28, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Other

KLog provides general purpose ham radio DX logging support.

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Color Palette – look up GNOME colors

August 28, 2025 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

Color Palette is a tool for viewing the GNOME color palette as defined by the design guidelines.

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harsh – habit tracking for geeks

August 28, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity

harsh is habit tracking for geeks. A minimalist, command line tool for tracking, understanding, and forging habits.

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gofumpt – stricter gofmt

August 28, 2025 Eilidih Parris CLI, Programming

gofumpt is a drop-in replacementto gofmt. Enforce a stricter format than gofmt, while being backwards compatible.

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HTML-validate – offline HTML5 validator

August 27, 2025 Eilidih Parris Programming

HTML-validate is an Offline HTML5 validator. It validates either a full document or a smaller (incomplete) template

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