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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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Game Tools

KHangMan – based on the well-known hangman game

October 10, 2025 Steve Emms Games

KHangMan is a game based on the well-known hangman game. It is aimed at children aged six and over.

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wakeonlan – Perl Wake-on-LAN utility

Updated October 5, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

wakeonlan is a Perl command-line utility for sending Wake-on-LAN magic packets with flexible targets, ports, files and delays.

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LAN

virtwold – Wake-on-LAN for libvirt based VMs

October 8, 2025 Steve Emms Software

virtwold is a daemon which listens for WOL packets and tries to start the virtual machine with the associated MAC address.

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LAN

Turn On – Wake On LAN (WoL) utility

Updated October 5, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Internet

Turn On is a GTK Wake-on-LAN utility with device discovery, status monitoring, web interface detection and desktop search integration.

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Encrypted Files

OpaqueFiles – encryption software for secure file storage

Updated October 8, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Security

OpaqueFiles encrypts and archives files with password-derived keys, compression and error correction. Explore its file protection features.

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Game Tools

Principia – sandbox physics game

October 3, 2025 Steve Emms Games

Principia is a physics-based sandbox building game. Build and play advanced contraptions, circuiting, minigames, robot adventures and more.

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Data Science

Fluid Mechanics Lab Calc

October 1, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Scientific

Fluid Mechanics Lab Calc is a practical tool to provide calculations in practical works in fluid mechanic laboratory.

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Best Free and Open Source Software: September 2025 Updates

October 1, 2025 Steve Emms Software

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

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Flashcards

Flashdown – terminal-based spaced repetition using flashcards in Markdown

Updated October 7, 2026 Steve Emms Education, TUI

Flashdown is a terminal flashcard app using Markdown decks, local progress storage and the FSRS spaced repetition algorithm.

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Web Browsers

Donut Browser – anti-detect browser

September 30, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Internet

Donut Browser is billed as a powerful anti-detect browser that puts you in control of your browsing experience.

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Data Science

Water Hammer Simulation – simulate the Water Hammer phenomenon

September 30, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Scientific

Water Hammer Simulation uses different numerical methods to simulate the Water Hammer phenomenon.

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Bioinformatics

MNELAB – GUI for MNE-Python

September 29, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Scientific

MNELAB is a graphical user interface (GUI) for MNE-Python, a Python package for EEG/MEG analysis.

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Codanna – X-ray vision for your agent

September 29, 2025 Steve Emms Programming, Scientific

Give your code assistant the ability to see through your codebase—understanding functions, tracing relationships, and finding implementations

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Selection of utilities

autogit – automatically build, update or install Pacman applications

September 29, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Autogit is a Bash tool to automatically build, update or install Pacman applications from PKGBUILD’s

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SSH-Studio – edit SSH configuration files

September 28, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Internet

SSH-Studio is a native GTK4 desktop app for editing and validating your ~/.ssh/config.

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