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Manga

Korai – manga reader

October 3, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Other

Korai is billed as a next generation manga reader.

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Mixer

PAMix – audio mixer

October 2, 2025 Steve Emms Multimedia, TUI

PAMix is an ncurses/curses pulseaudio mixer written in C similar to pavucontrol.

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System administration

awl – DNS lookup tool

October 2, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

awl is a command-line DNS lookup tool that supports DNS queries over UDP, TCP, TLS, HTTPS, DNSCrypt, and QUIC.

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JHenTai – cross-platform manga app

October 2, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Other

JHenTai is a manga app for E-Hentai, supporting Linux, Android, iOS, macOS, and Windows.

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Text Editor

moe – command-line editor inspired by Vim

October 2, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, TUI

moe is a command line based editor inspired by Vim written in Nim.

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Mixer

ncpamixer – ncurses PulseAudio Mixer

October 2, 2025 Steve Emms Software

ncpamixer is an ncurses mixer for PulseAudio inspired by pavucontrol.

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Coding

CGDB – lightweight console frontend to the GNU debugger

October 1, 2025 Steve Emms Programming, TUI

CGDB is a very lightweight console frontend to the GNU debugger. It provides a split screen interface showing the GDB session below and the program’s source code above. The interface is modelled after vim’s, so vim users should feel right

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Floskell – flexible Haskell source code pretty printer

October 1, 2025 Eilidih Parris Programming

Floskell started as a fork of version 4 of Chris Done’s hindent. The formatting styles present in hindent 4 have been preserved in spirit

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SSH

SSHM – SSH Manager

October 1, 2025 Steve Emms Internet, TUI

SSHM is a command-line tool that transforms how you manage and connect to your SSH hosts.

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Data Science

Fluid Mechanics Lab Calc

October 1, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Scientific

Fluid Mechanics Lab Calc is a practical tool to provide calculations in practical works in fluid mechanic laboratory.

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Best Free and Open Source Software: September 2025 Updates

October 1, 2025 Steve Emms Software

September 2025 updates to the largest compilation of recommended free and open source software available for Linux.

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Flashcards

Flashdown – terminal-based spaced repetition using flashcards in Markdown

October 1, 2025 Steve Emms Education, TUI

Flashdown is a minimalist flashcard app for seamless studying and note-taking in Markdown.

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Whippy Term – modern GUI based terminal program

September 30, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Whippy Term is a modern terminal program. It has been designed to have a modern UI and to run on modern OS’s including Linux.

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Photo Metadata

Scramble – privacy-focused image metadata removal tool

September 30, 2025 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

Scramble provides a clean, intuitive interface featuring a user-friendly drag-and-drop workflow for metadata inspection and removal.

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Task Manager

VIT – Visual Interactive Taskwarrior

September 30, 2025 Steve Emms Productivity, TUI

VIT (Visual Interactive Taskwarrior) is a lightweight, curses-based front end for Taskwarrior

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Web Browsers

Donut Browser – anti-detect browser

September 30, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Internet

Donut Browser is billed as a powerful anti-detect browser that puts you in control of your browsing experience.

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Data Science

Water Hammer Simulation – simulate the Water Hammer phenomenon

September 30, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Scientific

Water Hammer Simulation uses different numerical methods to simulate the Water Hammer phenomenon.

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Bioinformatics

MNELAB – GUI for MNE-Python

September 29, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Scientific

MNELAB is a graphical user interface (GUI) for MNE-Python, a Python package for EEG/MEG analysis.

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Password Managers

MUTN – self-hosted, SSH-synchronized password and note manager

September 29, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

MUTN is a simple, self-hosted, SSH-synchronized password and note manager based on libmutton. It is the successor to sshyp.

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Codanna – X-ray vision for your agent

September 29, 2025 Steve Emms Programming, Scientific

Give your code assistant the ability to see through your codebase—understanding functions, tracing relationships, and finding implementations

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