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Revisited: PyRadio – curses based internet radio player

February 6, 2023 Luke Baker CLI, Internet, Multimedia, Reviews

PyRadio is a cross-platform curses based internet radio player written in Python. Let’s check out the current version.

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PQMusic – minimalistic audio player

January 18, 2023 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews, Software

PQMusic is billed as a minimalistic and easy to use open source audio player written in Python. Let’s see how it fares.

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Excellent Utilities: Nushell – flexible cross-platform shell with a modern feel

January 9, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software, Utilities

Nushell is billed as a new type of shell. The aim is to adopt the Unix philosophy of shells where pipes connect command together.

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xine – plays CDs, DVDs, and VCDs

January 5, 2023 Steve Emms Multimedia

xine is a powerful multimedia program, specializing in video playback. It also serves as a library and engine for other software products.

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velox – simple window manager based on swc

December 29, 2022 Steve Emms Desktop

velox is a simple window manager based on swc. It is inspired by dwm and xmonad.

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newm – Wayland compositor

December 29, 2022 Steve Emms Desktop

newm is a Wayland compositor written with laptops and touchpads in mind.

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Vivarium – dynamic tiling Wayland compositor using wlroots

December 29, 2022 Steve Emms Desktop

Vivarium is a dynamic tiling Wayland compositor using wlroots, with desktop semantics inspired by xmonad.

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Mimic 3 – neural Text to Speech (TTS) engine

November 21, 2022 Steve Emms Multimedia, Reviews, Software

Mimic 3 is a neural text to speech engine that can run locally, even on low-end hardware. It’s free and open source software.

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Excellent Utilities: Kooha – simple screen recorder

November 14, 2022 Steve Emms Multimedia, Reviews, Software

Kooha is billed as a simple GTK-based app to “elegantly record your screen”. It’s free and open source software written in Rust.

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scorper – micro and elegant web framework

October 25, 2022 Eilidih Parris Programming

scorper is an elegant, performant, asynchronous micro web framework.

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Bluff – static website generator

August 8, 2022 Eilidih Parris Web Apps

Bluff is a static website generator that is intended to help you create a lightweight website with good search engine optimization.

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GNOME Calendar – simple and attractive calendar

August 3, 2022 Steve Emms Productivity

GNOME Calendar is a simple and beautiful calendar application designed to perfectly fit the GNOME desktop.

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YouTube

yt-dlp – fork of youtube-dl

July 11, 2022 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia, Reviews

yt-dlp is a fork of youtube-dl that’s under active development. It focuses on adding new features and patches and maintaining compatibility.

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Chafa – terminal graphics image viewer

June 22, 2022 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics, Reviews, Software

This review looks at a terminal-based image viewer that supports the Kitty Graphics Protocol. It’s named Chafa, shorthand for Character Art Facsimile.

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timg – Terminal Image and Video Viewer

June 17, 2022 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics, Multimedia, Reviews, Software

timg is an image and video viewer with support for high resolution graphics in the terminal.

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viu – Terminal Image Viewer with Kitty Graphics Protocol support

June 13, 2022 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics, Reviews, Software

viu is different from the vast majority of image viewers. It’s a small command-line program to view images from the terminal.

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Synthesizers

Surge XT – virtual synthesizer

June 10, 2022 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews, Software

Surge XT is a hybrid polyphonic synthesizer which supports MIDI Polyphonic Expression (MPE) and runs as an LV2 plugin, or as a VST.

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VIC-20

Emulate the VIC-20 home computer with Linux

May 21, 2022 John O'Donnell Emulators, Software

The Commodore VIC-20 is an 8-bit home computer that was released in 1980/1. It featured a MOS Technology 6502 CPU, with 20KB ROM and 5KB RAM.

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Amberol

Amberol – small and simple music player

May 6, 2022 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews, Software

Amberol seeks to be a small and simple music players. Nothing more, nothing less. It’s written in Rust and built with GTK4.

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Learning

Linux for Starters: Your Guide to Linux – Linux Commands – Appendix

April 23, 2022 Steve Emms Beginners, Software

There are thousands of Linux commands so it’s impractical to provide a comprehensive list. Instead we focus on many of the commands you will need.

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