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Database

Kudu is a distributed data storage engine

April 15, 2025 Steve Emms Database, Documents

Apache Kudu is a distributed data storage engine that makes fast analytics on fast and changing data easy.

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Hard disk

Duplicati – store encrypted backups online

April 15, 2025 Steve Emms Reviews, System Software

Duplicati is a backup client that stores encrypted, incremental, compressed backups on local storage, cloud storage services and remote file servers.

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Dictionary Tools

Words is a multilingual offline dictionary

April 15, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Words is a multilingual dictionary activity for the Sugar environment.

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Database

DB Browser for SQLite – create, design, and edit database files

April 14, 2025 Steve Emms Database, Documents

DB Browser for SQLite (DB4S) is a high quality, visual, open source tool to create, design, and edit database files compatible with SQLite.

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Dictionary Tools

Lexi is a self-driven dictionary app

April 14, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Lexi is a self-driven dictionary app for those who want to make their language learning (or creating) structured and easy.

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Annotation tool

swappy is a Wayland native snapshot editing tool

April 14, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

swappy is a Wayland native snapshot and editor tool, inspired by Snappy on macOS.

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Password Managers

rbw is an unofficial Bitwarden CLI

April 14, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

rbw is an unofficial Bitwarden client which maintains a background process which is able to hold keys in memory.

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Screen Capture

ImageMagick – create, edit, compose, or convert bitmap images

April 14, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

ImageMagick is a software suite to create, edit, and compose bitmap images. All manipulations can be achieved through shell commands.

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Backup software

Resticker runs automatic restic backups

April 13, 2025 Steve Emms System Software

Resticker runs automatic restic backups via a Docker container.

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Generate memes

memegen generates memes from the command line

April 13, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Other

memegen is a POSIX script to generate memes from the command line. It’s written in Shell and published under the GPL.

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Password Managers

Teller is a multi provider secret management tool

April 13, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

With Teller, never leave your terminal to use secrets while developing, testing, and building your apps.

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Backup

Crestic is a configurable restic wrapper

April 12, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

Crestic is a slim configuration wrapper for Restic, an awesome backup tool.

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Maths

wxMaxima is a GUI for the sublime Maxima CAS

April 12, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Scientific

wxMaxima is a graphical user interface for the computer algebra system Maxima: a program that solves mathematical problems

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Screen Capture

slop queries for a selection from the user and prints the region to stdout

April 12, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

slop (Select Operation) is an application that queries for a selection from the user and prints the region to stdout.

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Screen Capture

grim – screenshot utility for Wayland

April 11, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

grim is a command-line utility to take screenshots of Wayland desktops. It currently needs support for the screencopy protocol to work.

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Game Engines

Defold is a cross-platform game engine

April 11, 2025 Steve Emms Games

Defold is a completely free to use game engine for development of console, desktop, mobile and web games.

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Data Science

Pluto – simple reactive notebooks for Julia

April 11, 2025 Steve Emms Scientific

Pluto is a simple, reactive programming environment for the Julia Language.

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Web Browsers

Tangram is an interesting Linux web browser

April 11, 2025 Steve Emms Internet, Reviews

Tangram is a different type of browser. This software is designed to organise and run web applications.

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Password Managers

Bitwarden CLI – access and manage your vault

April 11, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

The Bitwarden command-line interface (CLI) is a powerful, fully-featured tool for accessing and managing your vault.

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PDF

JasperReports – reporting engine written in Java

April 11, 2025 Steve Emms Programming

JasperReports is a widely used free and open source business intelligence and reporting engine. It is a reporting library.

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