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Sandbox Games

vengi – collection of voxel tools

November 8, 2025 Steve Emms Games

vengi is a collection of voxel tools. It includes a voxel editor with animation support and loading/saving into voxel volume formats.

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Meshtastic – decentralized mesh networking ecosystem

November 7, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

Meshtastic is a project that lets you use inexpensive LoRa radios as a long range off-grid communicator for areas without reliable cellular service.

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Configuring music

Millisecond – optimize your system for low latency audio

November 2, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Millisecond provides system diagnostics and offers tips to improve low latency performance for audio production.

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HTTPDirFS – HTTP Directory Filesystem

October 18, 2025 Steve Emms Internet, Web Apps

HTTPDirFS is a filesystem which allows you to mount HTTP directory listings or a single file, with a permanent cache.

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ldf – report filesystem space info of devices

October 13, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

ldf reports filesystem space info of devices and RAM/swap usage.

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Monitor System

dgop – system monitoring tool with CLI and REST API

October 12, 2025 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

dgop is a system monitoring tool with CLI and REST API that can be used standalone, or as a companion for DankMaterialShell.

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Selection of utilities

Epicenter – ecosystem of open-source, local-first apps

September 20, 2025 Steve Emms Utilities

The eventual goal is to store all of your data—notes, transcripts, chat histories—in a single folder of plain text and SQLite.

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socktop – remote system monitor with a rich TUI

September 15, 2025 Steve Emms Internet, TUI, Utilities

socktop is a remote system monitor with a rich TUI, inspired by top/btop, talking to a lightweight agent over WebSockets.

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Software

aurutils – helper tools for the AUR

September 12, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

aurutils is a collection of scripts to automate usage of the Arch User Repository, with different tasks such as package searching, and more.

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Circuit board

F-Fetch – fast and minimal system fetcher

September 10, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

F-Fetch is a very fast, minimal terminal system fetcher. It is highly customizable

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Game Tools

ProtonPlus – modern compatibility tools manager

July 2, 2025 Steve Emms Games, GUI

ProtonPlus lets you install and manage Wine/Proton based compatibility tools with a graphical user interface.

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Navigation

INAV Configurator is a tool for the INAV flight control system

May 24, 2025 Steve Emms Utilities

INAV Configurator lets you program and customize the INAV firmware running on flight controllers.

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Benchmarking

Hardinfo2 offers system information and benchmark for Linux systems

May 16, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, System Software

Hardinfo2 offers System Information and Benchmark for Linux Systems. It is able to obtain information from both hardware and basic software.

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System Administration

jdSystemMonitor is a desktop-independent system monitor for Linux

May 5, 2025 Steve Emms Reviews, System Software

jdSystemMonitor aims to provide as much information about your system as possible, focusing on process management.

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Graphics card image

NVIDIA System Monitor is a task manager monitoring your GPU

May 2, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, System Software

NVIDIA System Monitor is a simple task manager for Linux for NVIDIA graphics cards. It’s written in C++ and uses Qt.

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Apple Messages

BlueBubbles is a cross-platform app ecosystem

April 5, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Internet

BlueBubbles is a cross-platform ecosystem of apps aimed to bring iMessage to Android, Windows, Linux, and the Web.

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Apple Messages

OpenBubbles is a cross-platform app ecosystem

April 5, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Internet

OpenBubbles is an open-source and cross-platform ecosystem of apps aimed to bring Apple platform services

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Find

Alternatives to popular CLI tools: dd

March 31, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Software

This article spotlights alternative tools to dd, a popular utility to convert and copy a file.

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Encryption software

File Lock PEA – filesystem-level encryption

February 7, 2025 Steve Emms Security

File Lock PEA (PEA = Password Encrypting Archive) encrypts data at the filesystem level

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Hypervisors

Boxes – view, access, and manage remote and virtual systems

February 6, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Internet

Boxes is a simple GNOME application to view, access, and manage remote and virtual systems.

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