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Chess

Weiss is a UCI chess engine

June 14, 2025 Steve Emms Games

This is a chess engine written in C.

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Dungeon

Mudlet – immersive, multiplayer, pure-text game

June 14, 2025 Steve Emms Graphics

Mudlet is a platform for gaming and enhancing game-play primarily with MUDs.

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Bomb

Mines is a puzzle game where you locate mines

June 13, 2025 Steve Emms Games, GUI

Mines (previously gnomine) is a puzzle game where you locate mines floating in an ocean using only your brain and a little bit of luck.

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BMI Calculator is a body mass index calculator

June 13, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Scientific

BMI Calculator is a body mass index calculator built with GTK4 and LibAdwaita.

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Essential Utilities to Boost Producitivity

D-Spy – explore the D-Bus

June 13, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

D-Spy is a simple tool to explore D-Bus connections.

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Ham radio

HamClock – clock and world map with extra features for amateur radio

June 13, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Other

HamClock is a kiosk-style application that provides real time space weather, radio propagation models, operating events and other information.

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Password Managers

LaZagne – credentials recovery project

June 13, 2025 Steve Emms Security

LaZagne is an application used to retrieve lots of passwords stored on a local computer.

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Bomb

mynes – rolling minesweeper with islands and sonars

June 12, 2025 Steve Emms Games

mynes is a rolling minesweeper with islands and sonars. Play the classic minesweeper with many sizes and a scrolling variant with lives.

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Chess

Ethereal is a UCI chess engine

June 12, 2025 Steve Emms Games

Ethereal is a UCI-compliant chess engine operating under the alpha-beta framework, paired with a Neural Network for positional evaluations.

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Schemes – create syntax highlighting schemes

June 12, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Schemes allow you to create syntax highlighting style-schemes for GtkSourceView-based applications such as Builder or Text Editor.

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Bomb

xdémineur is a minesweeper game

June 11, 2025 Steve Emms Games

xdémineur is a minesweeper game for the X Window System.

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Utility Software

Iconic adds images on top of a folder icon

June 11, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Iconic is an application made for GNOME written in Rust to easily add images on top of folders.

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Bomb

XBomb is a minesweeper game

June 10, 2025 Steve Emms Games, GUI

XBomb is a minesweeper game where you play on a hexagonal grid or for a challenge on a triangular grid.

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Sports Games

Tactics – football lineup builder

June 9, 2025 Steve Emms Games, GUI

Tactics is a football lineup builder. Build your association football lineup.

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Bomb

GMines is a clone of the well-known minesweeper game

June 8, 2025 Steve Emms Games, GUI

GMines is a clone of the well-known minesweeper game. The look is inspired by the KDE minesweeper program.

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Text Editor

Katvan is an editor for Typst files

June 8, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, GUI

Katvan is a bare-bones editor for the Typst typesetting system, designed for working with documents whose primary language is written from right to left.

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Photo Metadata

Xpano is an automated photo stitching tool

June 8, 2025 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

Xpano is an automated photo stitching tool. Import a directory of images and then export auto detected panoramas.

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Bomb

go-minesweeper is a minesweeper game

June 7, 2025 Steve Emms Games, GUI

Golang minesweeper is an implementation of minesweeper in golang, made with the ui framework fyne.

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Selection of utilities

chezmoi manages your dotfiles across multiple machines

June 7, 2025 Steve Emms Utilities

chezmoi helps you manage your personal configuration files (dotfiles, like ~/.gitconfig) across multiple machines.

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Compositing Window Managers

Waycheck shows Wayland compositor details

June 6, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Waycheck is a simple Qt6 application that displays all of the Wayland protocols that your compositor supports and doesn’t support.

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