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Program code

Flogo – programming language

August 9, 2025 Steve Emms Programming

Flogo is a programming language for beginners, designed for learning programming basics within a friendly environment using flow charts.

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Selection of utilities

vet – curl sanity checker

August 9, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

vet is a command-line tool that acts as a safety net for the common but risky curl | bash pattern.

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Essential Utilities to Boost Producitivity

cxt – extract and aggregate project context

August 9, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, TUI, Utilities

cxt is a command-line tool that aggregates file and directory contents into your clipboard.

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Monitoring

tree++ – tree command with icons

August 9, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Tree is a recursive directory listing program that produces a depth indented listing of files. tree++ adds icons.

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Files

Buffer – embrace ephemeral text

August 8, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, GUI, Productivity

Buffer provides a minimal editing space for all those things that don’t need keeping. It’s written in Rust.

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Ten Forward – control a NAT-PMP gateway

August 8, 2025 Steve Emms Internet

Ten Forward requests port forwarding to your gateway. Create multiple mapping configurations, which can individually be requested.

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Breathing – guides your breathing pattern

August 8, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Other

Breathing is a simple application that guides your breathing pattern. This pattern is recommended by experts to help ease anxiety.

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Selection of utilities

Stimulator keeps your computer awake

August 7, 2025 Steve Emms Software

Stimulator prevents the desktop environment (DE) from sleeping. It should work regardless of the used DE thanks to the Inhibit portal.

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Essential Utilities to Boost Producitivity

Wildcard – test your regular expressions

August 6, 2025 Steve Emms Utilities

Wildcard gives you a nice and simple to use interface to test/practice regular expressions.

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Selection of utilities

Teleprompter – read scrolling text from your screen

August 6, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Teleprompter is a simple Gtk4 app to read scrolling text from your screen.

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Essential Utilities to Boost Producitivity

Telegraph – Morse translator

August 6, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Other

Telegraph is a simple Morse translator, start typing your message to see the resulting Morse code and vice versa.

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Game Tools

lsfg-vk – Lossless Scaling Frame Generation

August 5, 2025 Steve Emms Games

This project attempts to bring one of its most commonly used features, Lossless Scaling Frame Generation, to Linux users.

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Notes

Noteworthy – Markdown notes app

August 5, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, GUI

Noteworthy is billed as a modern, fast, and version-controlled Markdown notes app.

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CPU

brokefetch – neofetch clone

August 4, 2025 Steve Emms CLI

brokefetch is the only system info tool that doesn’t pretend your life is okay.

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Bustle – visualize D-Bus activity

August 3, 2025 Steve Emms Programming

Bustle draws sequence diagrams of D-Bus activity. It shows signal emissions, method calls and their corresponding returns.

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Endlessh

sshp – parallel SSH executor

August 2, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

sshp manages multiple ssh processes and handles coalescing the output to the terminal.

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Best Free and Open Source Software: July 2025 Updates

August 1, 2025 Steve Emms Software

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

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Wangle – networking library

July 31, 2025 Steve Emms Programming

Wangle is a library that makes it easy to build protocols, application clients, and application servers.

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Monitor System

TkmViewer – analyse TaskMonitor output

July 31, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, System Software

TkmViewer is a graphical user interface to visualize output SQLite3 data format from the TaskMonitor daemon.

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Machine Learning

codename goose – AI agent

July 31, 2025 Steve Emms Scientific

goose is an on-machine AI agent, capable of automating complex development tasks from start to finish.

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