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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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Yomikiru – offline manga, manhwa, comic, and novel reader

July 29, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Other

Yomikiru is a feature-rich desktop application designed for reading locally stored manga, comics, webtoons, and EPUB novels.

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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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Game Tools

Hurry Curry! – multiplayer co-op cooking game

July 23, 2025 Steve Emms Games

Hurry Curry! is a cooperative multiplayer game. You work at a restaurant accepting orders, cooking various dishes and serving meals.

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Musical instruments

Tempo – metronome for musicians

July 23, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Tempo is a reliable metronome application designed for musicians of all levels. Built with modern GTK4 and Libadwaita

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OpenCommit – auto-generate meaningful commits in a second

July 22, 2025 Steve Emms Programming, Scientific

OpenCommit lets you auto-generate meaningful commits.There are multiple optional flags that can be used with the oco command.

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System

µgRD – generate a custom initramfs environment

July 21, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

µgRD is designed to generate a custom initramfs environment to boot the system which built it.

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System

psfu – do stuff with processes

July 21, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

psfu currently has one major command called tree which is used to show or modify all processes in that process tree.

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Firefly AIBOX 3588S

Firefly AIBOX-3588S Embedded Fanless PC Running Linux – Introduction

July 21, 2025 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

This is the first in a series of articles looking at the Firefly AIBOX 3588S embedded fanless ARM-based mini PC.

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Security

TruffleHog – discovery, classification, validation, and analysis tool

July 21, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Security

TruffleHog is a secret scanning engine that detects and helps resolve exposed secrets across your entire tech stack.

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Machine Learning

BrickGPT – generates a toy brick structure

July 20, 2025 Steve Emms Scientific

BrickGPT generates a toy brick structure from a user-provided text prompt in an end-to-end manner.

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Shooter Games

Stratbook – strategies, tips, and tricks

July 19, 2025 Steve Emms Games

Help gamers improve and share their knowledge.

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HTerm – terminal program for serial communication

July 18, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

HTerm is a cross-platform terminal program for serial communication. It uses wxWidgets, fmt, and spdlog.

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