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Yazi – terminal file manager

January 26, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software

Yazi is billed as a blazingly fast TUI file manager with asynchronous support. It’s written in Rust.

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Essential System Tools: VeraCrypt – Strong disk encryption software

March 27, 2019 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, System Software

VeraCrypt is a free open source cross-platform disk encryption software that builds on the discontinued TrueCrypt.

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Backrest – web UI and orchestrator for restic backup

April 28, 2025 Steve Emms Reviews, System Software, Web Apps

Backrest is a web-accessible backup solution built on top of restic. Backrest provides a WebUI which wraps the restic CLI. Here’s our review.

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Excellent System Utilities: Ventoy – create bootable USB drive for ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI files

November 2, 2020 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, System Software, Utilities

Ventoy is an open source tool to create bootable USB drive for ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI files.

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FeedDeck – RSS and social media feed reader

September 24, 2024 Steve Emms Internet, Multimedia, News, Reviews

FeedDeck is an open source RSS and social media feed reader, inspired by TweetDeck.

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Alligator – feed reader for mobile devices

November 20, 2024 Steve Emms Internet, News, Reviews

Alligator is a convergent, cross-platform feed reader, supporting standard RSS/Atom feeds. It’s built using KDE Frameworks and Qt

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Sigma File Manager – modern file manager

March 8, 2024 Steve Emms Productivity, Reviews

Sigma File Manager is billed as a quickly evolving, modern file manager (explorer / browser) app.

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Awesome Linux Game Tools: noise-suppression-for-voice

August 28, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia, Reviews, Software

noise-suppression-for-voice is a noise suppression plugin based on RNNoise, a noise suppression library based on a recurrent neural network.

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Coding

15 Best Free and Open Source Python Microframeworks

August 25, 2023 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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Why Understanding Open Source Software Is Important for Aspiring Data Scientists

July 19, 2023 John O'Donnell Scientific

The data science field is continuously expanding as our digitized technologies produce unprecedented volumes of information.

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