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Network Analyzers

Network Monitor – real-time network connection monitoring tool

December 4, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Internet, Security

Network Monitor is real-time network connection monitoring tool displaying active connections with live I/O statistics

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Application Launchers

dtsl – Dustin’s Simple TUI Launcher

December 4, 2025 Steve Emms Desktop, TUI

dtsl is a fast, keyboard-driven application launcher for the terminal with fuzzy search and extensive theming support.

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Photo Gallery

MyPhotoShare – static web photo, audio and video gallery

December 4, 2025 Steve Emms Web Apps

MyPhotoShare is a static web photo, audio and video gallery with advanced features.

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Web Browsers

Iocaine – defense mechanism against unwanted scrapers

December 4, 2025 Steve Emms Internet

Iocaine is a defense mechanism against unwanted scrapers, sitting between upstream resources and the fronting reverse proxy.

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NullAway – eliminate NPEs in Java code

December 4, 2025 Eilidih Parris CLI, Programming

NullAway is a tool that offers fast annotation-based null checking for Java.

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Tuckr – replacement for Stow

December 4, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Tuckr is a dotfile manager inspired by Stow and Git. Tuckr aims to make dotfile management less painful.

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Dangerzone – make PDFs safe

December 4, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, GUI

Dangerzone takes potentially dangerous PDFs, office documents, or images and convert them to a safe PDF.

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Cloud

Gordon – create, wire and deploy AWS Lambdas using CloudFormation

December 4, 2025 Steve Emms Internet

Gordon is a tool to create, wire and deploy AWS Lambdas using CloudFormation.

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Coding

PMD – extensible cross-language static code analyzer

December 3, 2025 Eilidih Parris CLI, Programming

PMD is an extensible multilanguage static code analyzer. It finds common programming flaws like unused variables, empty catch blocks

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Podcast

Audiobookshelf – self-hosted audiobook and podcast server

December 3, 2025 Steve Emms Multimedia, Web Apps

Audiobookshelf is a self-hosted audiobook and podcast server.

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Music

Pano Scrobbler – cross-platform music tracker

December 3, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Pano Scrobbler is a feature packed cross-platform music tracker for Last.fm, ListenBrainz, Libre.fm, Pleroma and other compatible services.

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Quisk – Software Defined Radio transceiver

December 3, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Quisk is a Software Defined Radio (SDR), software that controls a receiver and transmitter.

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Monitor System

24 Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to the Top Utility

December 3, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Roundup, Utilities

top is a small, venerable utility that offers a dynamic real-time view of a running system. We identify alternatives to top that offer more control in managing processes on a running system.

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Video-Emulators

Pegasus – graphical frontend for browsing your game library

December 3, 2025 Steve Emms Emulators, Games

Pegasus is a graphical frontend for browsing your game library and launching all kinds of emulators from the same place.

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Monitoring

treex – fast, and customizable CLI directory viewer

December 3, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Treex (Tree Explorer) is a lightweight and modern command-line utility that lets you explore your file system visually.

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Coding

17 Best Free and Open Source Python Microframeworks

December 3, 2025 Steve Emms Programming, Roundup

This article examines the best Python microframeworks. Micro means the framework is small, with little or no tools and libraries.

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Natural Language Processing

Syuzhet – R package

December 3, 2025 Steve Emms Scientific

Syuzhet is an R package for the extraction of sentiment and sentiment-based plot arcs from text.

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circuits – lightweight event driven application framework

December 3, 2025 Steve Emms Programming, Web Apps

circuits is a Lightweight Event driven and Asynchronous Application Framework for the Python programming language.

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Machine Learning in Linux

Lotion – unofficial Notion.so desktop application for Linux

December 3, 2025 Steve Emms Scientific

Notion is a single space where you can think, write and plan. Capture thoughts, manage projects, or even run an entire company

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DNA

oxDNA – DNA/RNA simulator with CUDA support

December 3, 2025 Steve Emms Scientific

oxDNA is an extensible simulation+analysis framework. The nucleic-acid-related force fields are implemented: oxDNA1, oxDNA2, oxRNA, oxNA.

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