dutree is a command line tool to analyze disk usage. It’s written in the Rust programming language. It’s free and open source software. How does it compare to other disk usage analyzers?
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Gogs – self-hosted Git service
The Gogs project aims to build a simple, stable and extensible self-hosted Git service that can be setup in the most painless way.
Read moreBOUML – UML 2 tool box including a modeler
BOUML is a free UML 2 tool box including a modeler allowing you to specify and generate code in C++, Java, IDL, PHP, Python and MySQL. There’s a good range of plug-outs available. The software is free to use. Features
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LXMusic – music player designed for the minimalist
LXMusic is a music player designed for the minimalist. It’s written in the C programming language, and uses GTK+.
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Excellent Utilities: exa – replacement for ls
exa is a replacement for the venerable ls command. exa sports more features and arguably better defaults than ls.
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Excellent Utilities: ripgrep – recursively search directories for a regex pattern
ripgrep is a line-oriented search tool that recursively searches your current directory for a regex pattern. It’s free and open source software.
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Linux Candy: Ternimal – animated lifeform in the terminal
Ternimal simulates a lifeform in the terminal using Unicode block symbols. It’s a script written in Rust with no dependencies and consumes few resources.
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Linux Candy: cacafire – Color ASCII Fire
The nights are drawing in. You want to feel warm and toasty. And nothing beats a log fire. cacafire displays burning ASCII art flames.
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fSpy – still image camera matching software
fSpy is a free and open source app for still image camera matching. fSpy is written in Typescript using Electron, React and Redux.
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Manage your Photos: JPEG Photo Compression
JPEG is an image file format that’s been around since the early 1990s, and it uses lossy compression. We compare and contrast Guetzli, MozJPEG, and Lepton. They are all open source tools that run from the command-line.
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Essential System Tools: hyperfine – command-line benchmarking tool
hyperfine is a command-line benchmarking tool. It’s designed to measure the full execution time of a program. This open source tool is written in Rust.
Read moreCaRMetal – interactive geometry software using the C.a.R. engine
CaRMetal is an interactive geometry program which inherited the C.a.R. engine. The software retains some of C.a.R’s functionality, but employs a different graphical interface which is designed to remove some intermediate dialogs. Constructions are done using a main palette, which
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Linux Candy: ASCIIQuarium – embrace marine life from the terminal
ASCIIQuarium is a short Perl script that lets you embrace aquatic nature from your terminal. It’s an aquarium/sea animation in ASCII art.
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Linux Candy: WallGen – image generator tool
Let’s start our candy adventure with WallGen. It’s a small command-line utility that generates HQ poly wallpapers with only a few text arguments for inputs. Depending on these arguments, you can create shape-based patterns, randomly filled surfaces, and even image-based patterns.
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Excellent Utilities: peco – interactive filtering tool
peco is a CLI utility that filters text interactively. The tool is written in the Go programming language. It’s free and open source software.
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Excellent Utilities: McFly – navigate through your shell history
McFly is a tiny utility that replaces the functionality offered by Bash’s ctrl-r with an intelligent search engine.
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GLava – OpenGL audio spectrum visualizer for desktop windows or backgrounds
GLava is an OpenGL audio spectrum visualizer primarily used for desktop windows or backgrounds. It’s free and open source software.
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Tizonia – powerful open source cloud music player for the Linux terminal
Tizonia offers access to Spotify, YouTube, Google Play Music, SoundCloud and more all from the command line. Free and open source software. Here’s my review of the software.
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Excellent Utilities: Tusk – Evernote desktop software
Tusk is billed as a feature-laden, open source, community-driven, free Evernote app used by people in more than 140 countries. Let’s put it this application through its paces, and why it warrants inclusion in our “Excellent Utilities” series.
Read moreJBR Genome Browser – general purpose genome browser
JBR Genome Browser is a general purpose genome browser with integrated semi-supervised peak calling support using SPAN. The browser is optimized to work with large session containing BigWig and BigBed tracks. A Java Runtime Environment (JRE) is bundled with the
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