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Qtcord – Discord client built with Qt

March 6, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Internet

Qtcord is a Discord client built with Qt aiming to bring a lightweight, native experience.

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boom – manage text snippets

March 6, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

boom manages your text snippets on the command line.

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Newsraft – feed reader for terminal

March 6, 2025 Steve Emms Internet, TUI

Newsraft is a small text based program for reading syndication feeds.

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Mail – graphical email client

March 6, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Internet

Mail is designed to let you manage your email quickly and effortlessly.

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Legcord – custom Discord client

March 5, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Internet

Legcord is a custom client designed to enhance your Discord experience while keeping everything lightweight.

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toolong – view, tail, merge, and search log files

March 5, 2025 Steve Emms System Software, TUI

toolong is a terminal application to view, tail, merge, and search log files (plus JSONL). It’s written in Python.

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Fullmoon – fast and minimalistic web framework based on Redbean

March 5, 2025 Eilidih Parris Programming

Fullmoon is a fast and minimalistic web framework based on Redbean — a portable, single-file distributable web server.

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System administration

dnrs – light DNS server

March 5, 2025 Steve Emms Internet

dnrs is a light DNS server. It aims to modernize the approach to writing configuration files and to be lightweight.

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Slic3r – toolpath generator for 3D printers

March 5, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, Utilities

Slic3r is a toolpath generator for 3D printers: reads 3D models (STL, OBJ, AMF, 3MF) and converts them into G-code instructions.

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Email

Betterbird – Thunderbird fork

March 5, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Internet

Betterbird is billed as a fine-tuned version of Mozilla Thunderbird.

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Automation

Repeat – visual automation tool

March 5, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Roundup

Repeat is a full-fledged mouse/keyboard record/replay and sophisticated automation macros/hotkeys creation tool.

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Automation

xdotool – fake keyboard/mouse input, window management

March 4, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity

xdotool lets you simulate keyboard input and mouse activity, move and resize windows, etc. It does this using X11’s XTEST extension.

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3D Printer

Bambu Studio – 3D printing slicing software

March 4, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Bambu Studio bills itself as a cutting-edge, feature-rich slicing program.

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Bluetooth

BLE Serial – RFCOMM for BLE

March 4, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

BLE Serial is a tool to connect Bluetooth 4.0+ Low Energy to UART modules and normal PCs/laptops/Raspberry Pi.

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movie-cli – obtain information about movies

March 4, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

movie-cli is a CLI for getting information about a movies and comparing two movies.

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lowcharts – draw low-resolution graphs in terminal

March 4, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

lowcharts is a tool to draw low-resolution graphs in terminal.

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tab – terminal multiplexer

March 4, 2025 Steve Emms Utilities

tab is an intuitive, config-driven terminal multiplexer designed for software and systems engineers.

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Text Editor

Orbiton – configuration-free text editor and IDE

March 4, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Documents

Orbiton is a configuration-free little text editor and IDE for the terminal.

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TV

TVHplayer – desktop IPTV player

March 3, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

TVHplayer is a desktop client for playback and recording live TV with TVheadend.

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Feedln – terminal RSS reader

March 3, 2025 Steve Emms Internet, TUI

Feedln is a command-line RSS feed reader that allows users to manage and read their favorite feeds.

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