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Pangolin – tunneled mesh reverse proxy server with access control

March 11, 2025 Steve Emms Internet

Pangolin is a tunneled reverse proxy server with identity and access control, designed to securely expose private resources.

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Backup software

Konsave – save and apply KDE Plasma customizations

March 11, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

Konsave is a CLI program that will let you save and apply your Linux customizations with a single command.

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System administration

PopuraDNS – build of CoreDNS

March 11, 2025 Steve Emms Internet

PopuraDNS is a simple DNS server with decentralized domain names support. PopuraDNS is a special build of CoreDNS.

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Essential Utilities to Boost Producitivity

Ignition – manage startup apps and scripts

March 10, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Ignition provides a simple UI to add, remove, and modify startup entries on your computer.

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Selection of utilities

Ucto – advanced rule-based unicode-aware tokenizer

March 9, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Ucto tokenizes text files: it separates words from punctuation, and splits sentences. It offers several other basic preprocessing steps.

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What is Fulfillment Software in E-commerce?

March 8, 2025 John O'Donnell Blog

Fulfillment software is an essential tool for any e-commerce business looking to streamline its order fulfillment process.

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Warble

wordle-tui – wordle in your terminal

March 8, 2025 Steve Emms Games, TUI

wordle-tui provides a TUI for Wordle, a word guessing game.

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Email

mu – maildir indexer and searcher

March 7, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

mu is a tool for dealing with e-mail messages stored in the Maildir-format.

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Clipboard

wayclip – access the Wayland clipboard

March 6, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

wayclip is a pair of command-line utilities: waycopy and waypaste, which allow access to the Wayland clipboard.

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boom – manage text snippets

March 6, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

boom manages your text snippets on the command line.

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Log Analyzers

toolong – view, tail, merge, and search log files

March 5, 2025 Steve Emms System Software, TUI

toolong is a terminal application to view, tail, merge, and search log files (plus JSONL). It’s written in Python.

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Email

Betterbird – Thunderbird fork

March 5, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Internet

Betterbird is billed as a fine-tuned version of Mozilla Thunderbird.

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movie-cli – obtain information about movies

March 4, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

movie-cli is a CLI for getting information about a movies and comparing two movies.

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lowcharts – draw low-resolution graphs in terminal

March 4, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

lowcharts is a tool to draw low-resolution graphs in terminal.

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Text Editor

Orbiton – configuration-free text editor and IDE

March 4, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Documents

Orbiton is a configuration-free little text editor and IDE for the terminal.

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Monitoring

btail – interactive file tail viewer

March 2, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

btail is a command-line utility for viewing the tail of files with an interactive terminal user interface.

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Game Engines

ct.js – 2D game engine and IDE

March 2, 2025 Steve Emms Games, GUI

ct.js is a 2D game engine and IDE that aims to be powerful and flexible while still being easy to use and learn.

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Database

tarug – minimal Postgres SQL client

March 2, 2025 Steve Emms Database, GUI

tarug is a modern, yet another Postgres SQL client, build with GTK 4 and Libadwaita.

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Comic Books

oyomu – CLI comic collection manager and reader

March 1, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Other

oyomu is a command line comic collection manager and also a comic reader.

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Hypervisors

VirtualBox – powerful x86 and AMD64/Intel64 virtualization software

March 1, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Internet

VirtualBox is a family of virtual machine products targeting desktop computers, enterprise servers and embedded systems.

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