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Contrast checks the contrast between two colors

May 18, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Contrast checks whether the contrast between two colors meet the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) requirements.

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Time tracking

Flowtime – spend your time wisely

May 18, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

Flowtime is a GUI program to get what motivates you done, without losing concentration.

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Text Editor

Mini Text is a very small and basic text editor

May 18, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, GUI

Mini Text is an extremely simple Gtk4/Libadwaita app that shows a text view to copy/paste and edit text.

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Bookmark manager tool

linkding is a self-hosted bookmark manager

May 18, 2025 Steve Emms Internet, Web Apps

linkding is a bookmark manager that you can host yourself. It’s designed to be minimal, fast, and easy to set up using Docker.

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WebRTC

openVidu is a platform to develop WebRTC real-time applications

May 18, 2025 Steve Emms Internet, Web Apps

openVidu is a platform to develop WebRTC real-time applications. Self-hosted, performant, fault tolerant, scalable and observable.

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Bookmark manager tool

Servas is a self-hosted bookmark management tool

May 17, 2025 Steve Emms Internet, Web Apps

Servas is a self-hosted bookmark management tool. Servas is based on Laravel and Inertia.js and uses Tailwind CSS and Svelte for the frontend.

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Wallpaper Setter

mpvpaper – video wallpaper software

May 17, 2025 Steve Emms Utilities

mpvpaper is a wallpaper program for wlroots based Wayland compositors, such as sway.

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Data Science

OpenChrom – software for chromatography, spectrometry and spectroscopy

May 17, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Scientific

OpenChrom is software for chromatography, spectrometry and spectroscopy. Data from different systems can be imported and analyzed.

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Flash OS

JustDD is a USB Image Writer

May 16, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

JustDD is a simple graphical tool to write Linux and Windows ISO images to USB drives. It is designed for ease of use, safety, and flexibility

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IDE

ZeroBrane Studio – lightweight Lua-based IDE for Lua

May 16, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Programming

ZeroBrane Studio is a lightweight Lua IDE with code completion, syntax highlighting, live coding, code analyzer, and debugging support.

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Manage creative assets

Pixyne is a tool to fix your photos

May 16, 2025 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

Use Pixyne to quickly review your photo folders, safely delete bad and similar shots, fix the shooting dates, crop and adjust photos.

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Performance

Speedtest tests your internet speed

May 15, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Internet

Speedtest is a graphical librespeed client written using GTK4 and libadwaita.

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Turkey

AdventureLog is a self-hostable travel tracker and trip planner

May 15, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

With AdventureLog, you can log your adventures, keep track of where you’ve been on the world map, and plan your next trip collaboratively.

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GNOME Maps – find places around the world

May 15, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Scientific

Maps gives you quick access to maps all across the world. It allows you to quickly find the place you’re looking for

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WebRTC

coturn is an implementation of TURN and STUN Server

May 15, 2025 Steve Emms Internet

coturn is an implementation of TURN and STUN Server. The TURN Server is a VoIP media traffic NAT traversal server and gateway.

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Start up

YaST2 is a GRUB graphical configuration tool for openSUSE

May 14, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, System Software

YaST (Yet another Setup Tool) is a Linux operating system setup and configuration tool. It lets you edit GRUB.

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Wiki Engines

Docmost is a collaborative wiki and documentation software

May 14, 2025 Steve Emms Web Apps

Designed for seamless real-time collaboration, multiple users can work on the same page at the same time in real-time

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Notes

AppFlowy is an open source alternative to Notion

May 14, 2025 Steve Emms Productivity

Bring projects, wikis, and teams together with AI. AppFlowy is the AI collaborative workspace without losing control of your data.

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Manage creative assets

Blackbody is a thermogram viewer

May 14, 2025 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

It allows viewing FLIR and TIFF images, giving control over the render settings.

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Email

Gray Duck Mail – modern group email discussion lists

May 14, 2025 Steve Emms Internet

Gray Duck Mail is an alternative to email discussion group software such as Mailman and Sympa.

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