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Selection of utilities

Moulti – assign visual collapsible blocks

August 19, 2025 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

Moulti enables you to assign the numerous lines emitted by your scripts to “steps”, i.e. visual, collapsible blocks

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Files

nbpreview – terminal viewer for Jupyter notebooks

August 19, 2025 Steve Emms Documents

nbpreview is a terminal viewer for Jupyter notebooks. It’s like cat for ipynb files. It’s written in Python.

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Comic Books

ACBR – comic book reader and converter

August 18, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Other

ACBR is a cross-platform comic book reader and converter.

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Role-Play Games

Threadbare – story-drive collaborative game

August 17, 2025 Steve Emms Games

Threadbare is a story-driven, collaborative game where players don’t just explore a world—they co-create it.

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Sudoku

Sudoku – solve Sudoku puzzles

August 17, 2025 Steve Emms Games, GUI

Sudoku is a modern Sudoku app focused on delivering a clean, distraction-free experience. Designed with simplicity and comfort in mind.

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Programming

godl – Godot version manager

August 16, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, Programming

godl is a version manager for Godot, written in QML/C++ with the Qt Quick libraries.

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Game Tools

Hex Colordle – color guessing game

August 16, 2025 Steve Emms Games

Hex Colordle is a game where you need to find the hexadecimal value of the color shown on screen.

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Tiny Crate – crate-chucking action puzzler

August 15, 2025 Steve Emms Games

Tiny Crate is a cute little precision platformer with puzzle elements! It’s released into the public domain.

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Selection of utilities

Emblem – generate project avatars

August 15, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Emblem generates projects avatars for your Matrix rooms and git forges from a symbolic icon.

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Selection of utilities

Gauge – unit converter

August 14, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Gauge is a high precision unit conversion tool. Convert length, area, volume, temperature, speed, duration, frequency, and more.

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Web Browsers

gohttpserver – HTTP static file server

August 13, 2025 Steve Emms Internet, Web Apps

gohttpserver is a HTTP static file server with a human-friendly user interface and lots of features.

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ASROCK NUC BOX-255H Running Linux

Benchmarking the ASRock Industrial NUC BOX-255H

August 13, 2025 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

In this article I’ll benchmark the machine. The tests are run using the Phoronix Test Suite, unless otherwise stated.

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Controller illustration

Input Remapper – change the behaviour of input devices

August 12, 2025 Steve Emms Games, GUI, Utilities

Input Remapper is an easy to use tool for Linux to change the behaviour of your input devices.

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Files

Vivify – brings your files to life in the browser

August 12, 2025 Steve Emms Documents

Vivify brings your files to life in the browser. Vivify is primarily made to render Markdown and Jupyter Notebooks.

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MMapper – play MUME

August 12, 2025 Steve Emms Games

MMapper is a graphical mapping tool that enhances the MUME (Multi-Users in Middle Earth) experience.

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Sonar – modern desktop webhook inspector for developers

August 11, 2025 Steve Emms Programming

Sonar is a native GTK4 application that provides an intuitive interface for capturing and inspecting webhook requests during development.

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Essential System Utils

psrecord – record the CPU and memory activity of a process

August 11, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

psrecord is a small utility that uses the psutil library to record the CPU and memory activity of a process.

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Game Tools

TwintailLauncher – multi-platform launcher

August 11, 2025 Steve Emms Games, GUI

Twintaillauncher is a multi-platform launcher that brings mod support, quality-of-life improvements, and advanced features to a variety of anime-styled games.

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ASROCK NUC BOX-255H Running Linux

ASRock Industrial NUC BOX-255H Running Linux: Introduction to the series

August 11, 2025 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

This is a series of articles looking at the ASRock Industrial NUC BOX-255H. In this series, I examine every aspect of this Mini PC in detail.

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PikaOS desktop (KDE)

Save Desktop – saves your Linux desktop environment configuration

August 10, 2025 Steve Emms Utilities

Save Desktop lets you save your current configuration (themes, icons, wallpapers, desktop environment settings, extensions.) with one click.

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