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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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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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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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Selection of utilities

YAFI – Yet Another Framework Interface

October 15, 2025 Steve Emms System Software

YAFI is another GUI for the Framework Laptop Embedded Controller. It is written in Python with a GTK4 Adwaita theme

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Desktop

Mending Wall – fixes common problems when using more than one desktop environment

October 15, 2025 Steve Emms Desktop, GUI, Utilities

Mending Wall is a Linux application to fix issues when hopping between multiple desktop environments.

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Network

wol.rs – Wake On LAN library and command line tool

October 14, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

wol.rs is a Wake On LAN magic packet command line tool and crate.

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SSD

colordf – colored and configurable version of df

October 13, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

colordf is a colored and configurable version of df, forked from cdf.

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SSD

rust-df – simple df like utility in Rust

October 13, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

rust-df (rdf) is a very simple tool that displays output like the df utility, but it’s written in the Rust language.

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di – disk information tool

October 13, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

di is a disk information utility, displaying everything (and more) that your df command does.

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Machine Learning

OWLEN – terminal User Interface LLM client for Ollama

October 13, 2025 Steve Emms Scientific, TUI

OWLEN is a Rust-powered, terminal-first interface for interacting with local large language models.

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Selection of utilities

ntfy – simple HTTP-based pub-sub notification service

October 11, 2025 Steve Emms Internet

With ntfy you can send notifications to your phone or desktop via scripts from any computer

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