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Video-Emulators

Supermodel emulates Sega’s Model 3 arcade platform

May 31, 2025 Steve Emms Emulators, Games

Supermodel emulates Sega’s Model 3 arcade platform, allowing you to play a number of ground-breaking arcade classics on your PC.

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Automation

espansoGUI is a GUI for espanso

May 31, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

espansoGUI is a GUI for espanso created with Rust and Iced.

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Writing Tools

Writernote takes notes in an intelligent way

May 31, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

Writernote allows you to take notes in an intelligent way. Record audio as you write, and listen to it again seeing what you have written.

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Shell prompt

slimzsh is a small, usable configuration for Zsh

May 31, 2025 Steve Emms Utilities

slimzsh is a small, usable configuration for Zsh. It enables all the awesomeness of Zsh with a small and tidy config.

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Shell prompt

Oh My Posh is a prompt theme engine for any shell

May 30, 2025 Steve Emms Utilities

Oh My Posh is a custom prompt engine for any shell that has the ability to adjust the prompt string with a function or variable.

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Manage creative assets

Gradia lets you quickly edit images for social media

May 30, 2025 Steve Emms Graphics

Gradia allows you to quickly modify screenshots of application windows to put them better in context.

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Network

Elpher is a gopher and gemini client for Emacs

May 30, 2025 Steve Emms Internet, TUI

Elpher is an Emacs-based gopher client with the goal of providing an intuitive and pleasant way for Emacs users

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Photo collection

Tropy – explore your research photos

May 30, 2025 Steve Emms Graphics

Tropy is a a tool that shortens the path from finding archival sources to writing about them.

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GCompris

Flood It is a simple puzzle game

May 30, 2025 Steve Emms Games

Flood It is a game with the simple premise of flooding the entire board with one color in the least amount of moves possible.

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Network

Amfora is a terminal browser for the Gemini protocol

May 29, 2025 Steve Emms Internet, TUI

Amfora aims to be the best looking Gemini client with the most features… all in the terminal.

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Notes

Plover is a stenography engine

May 29, 2025 Steve Emms Utilities

Plover is software intended to bring realtime stenographic technology not just to stenographers.

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education

Spelling Bee helps you learn new words

May 29, 2025 Steve Emms Education

Use Spelling Bee to enhance your English vocabulary while having fun.

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Nelson is a numerical computational language

May 29, 2025 Steve Emms Programming

Nelson is a numerical computational language providing a comprehensive and intuitive environment for engineers, scientists, and students.

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Bookmark manager tool

Frigoligo is a wallabag client

May 28, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Internet

Frigoligo is a wallabag client crafted using Flutter. Its core philosophy is to prioritize pragmatism and adhere to best practices.

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yeTTY views logs from serial ports

May 28, 2025 Steve Emms Programming

yeTTY is an application for embedded developers to view logs from a serial port.

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Alaska

Amsam – image cropping tool

May 28, 2025 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

Amsam is a program exclusively for cropping photos based on aspect ratios. Change the aspect ratio of a photo without opening a calculator.

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Video-Emulators

SkyEmu is a Game Boy Advance, Game Boy, Game Boy Color, and DS emulator

May 28, 2025 Steve Emms Emulators, Games

Its primary focus is to preserve these great systems for future generations while providing a good user experience.

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Video-Emulators

Panda3DS is an Nintendo 3DS emulator

May 28, 2025 Steve Emms Emulators, Games

Panda3DS is still in the early stages of development. Many games boot, many don’t. Lots of games have at least some hilariously broken graphics.

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Screen Capture

Kasasa snips and pins useful information

May 27, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Clip and pin what’s important to a small floating window, so you don’t have to switch between windows or workspaces repeatedly.

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wallabag is a self hosting application for saving web pages

May 27, 2025 Steve Emms Internet, Web Apps

wallabag is a read-it-later application: it saves a web page by keeping content only.

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