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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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Security

Fizz – TLS 1.3 implementation

July 30, 2025 Steve Emms Security

Fizz currently supports TLS 1.3 drafts 28, 26 (both wire-compatible with the final specification), and 23.

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Puzzle Games

EmojiClu – graphical implementation of the Zebra Puzzle

July 30, 2025 Steve Emms Games, GUI

EmojiClu is a graphical implementation of the Zebra Puzzle, built with GTK. It’s a logical deduction style puzzle, similar to Suduko.

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Identity in action

Identity – compare images and videos

July 28, 2025 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI, Multimedia

Identity is a program for comparing multiple versions of an image or video.

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Document viewer

Manuals – read developer documentation

July 27, 2025 Steve Emms Programming

Manuals indexes your developer manuals and provides robust browsing and searching capabilities.

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Essential Utilities to Boost Producitivity

Spider – web app tool

July 26, 2025 Steve Emms Utilities

Spider is software that lets you install and integrate web apps into the GNOME desktop. It’s written in Rust.

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Escambo – HTTP-based APIs test application for GNOME

July 26, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Programming

Escambo is an HTTP-based APIs test application made in GTK4/Libadwaita.

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Notes

Etesync-Notes – secure note-taking application

July 25, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

Etesync-Notes is a secure note-taking application for Linux, integrated with Etebase for encrypted synchronization.

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Selection of utilities

rmz – zippy alternative to rm

July 24, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

rmz is a zippy alternative to rm, a tool to remove files and directories.

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Configuring music

Elektroid – sample and MIDI device manager

July 24, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, Multimedia

Elektroid is a sample and MIDI device manager. It includes the elektroid GUI application and the elektroid-cli CLI application.

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