bat is a drop-in replacement for the cat command adding advanced syntax highlighting and Git integration to show file modifications. It’s a really useful utility that is a massive leap up from cat. bat’s written in the Rust programming language.
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Being able to take a screenshot comes in handy so many times. Linux is blessed with a good range of competent screenshot software. One which has recently caught our attention is Flameshot, an easy to use, open source, Qt-based screenshot utility which is adept at capturing custom areas of a desktop.
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Monkey is a fast and lightweight Web Server for Linux. It has been designed to be very scalable with low memory and CPU consumption.
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If you’re tired of bloated GUI software and are looking for a capable podcast player, give castero a whirl. With a few more features, this podcast would tick all the boxes.
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youtube-dl is a cross-platform, open source, command-line program to download videos. Its name belies the fact it supports tons of streaming sites besides YouTube. I’d never heard of half of them.
The software is written in the Python programming language and needs the Python interpreter (2.6, 2.7, or 3.2+).
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Newsboat is a sleek, open source RSS/Atom feed reader for the text console. It’s a fork of Newsbeuter. RSS and Atom are a number of widely-used XML formats to transmit, publish and syndicate articles, typically news or blog articles.
Newsboat is designed to be used on text terminals on Unix or Unix-like systems. It’s entirely controlled by the keyboard.
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Winds is billed as a beautiful, modern, open-source RSS Reader and Podcast app. It’s certainly garnishing attention among open source enthusiasts. It’s picked up over 5,000 stars on GitHub, so I’ve been putting this JavaScript software through its paces.
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wego is another gem of a terminal application. It’s open source weather software written in the Go programming language and designed for the terminal. It displays the weather in a variety of visually attractive ways. It’s a lightweight way to keep an eye on the weather without requiring a web browser. The information is SSL-encrypted for transmission to the local computer.
Read morehelm is an open source MIDI enabled polyphonic music synthesizer with an easy to use parameter modulation system with real-time graphical feedback. helm can run as a standalone synthesizer or as an LV2, VST, VST3, AU or AAX plugin. helm
Read moreUpterm (formerly known as Black Screen) is an open source IDE in the world of terminals. Strictly speaking, the software is both a terminal emulator and an interactive shell based on Electron. It uses Electron, TypeScript, ReactJS, as well as
Read moreTerminus is an open source terminal emulator designed for a modern age. Terminus is an Electron app, with the frontend written in Typescript with the assistance of Angular framework. The software is built using webpack, a static module bundler for
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If you’re a big fan of the command-line, what better way to keep track of the latest World Cup scores and standings with a small command-line utility. Let’s take a look at one of the hottest trending football utilities available. It’s goes by the name football-cli.
Read moreICQ is an open source instant messaging client. This is an official Linux client. The latest update is in an experimental stage of development; there are some issues with users reporting memory leaks and instability. The ICQ client includes software
Read moreTelegram is a cloud-based instant messaging and voice over IP service. You can use Telegram on all your devices at the same time — your messages sync seamlessly across any number of your phones, tablets or computers. Telegram’s client-side code
Read moreStacer is an open-source system optimizer designed for Ubuntu / Debian based distributions. Stacer welcomes the user with a modern window featuring 9 tabs: Dashboard, Startup Apps, System Cleaner, Services, Processes, Uninstaller, Resources, APT Repository Manager, and Settings. From a
Read morescikit-learn is an open source Python module for machine learning built on top of SciPy. It offers efficient versions of a large number of common algorithms. The software displays a clean, uniform, and streamlined API, with good online documentation. The
Read moreHigh Performance Analytics Toolkit (HPAT) is an open source big data analytics and machine learning framework that offers Python’s ease of use combined with fast operation. It’s a compiler-based framework for big data. It accelerates data analytics and machine learning
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Interactive fiction is a form of computer game which shares many traits with fiction in book form, role-playing games and puzzle-solving. It’s one of the oldest forms of computer games. Here’s our recommendations.
Interactive fiction is a somewhat nebulous phrase. It can refer to text adventures where the player uses text input to control the game, and the game state is relayed with text output. They are known as text adventures.
Read moreggplot is a plotting system for Python based on R’s ggplot2 and the Grammar of Graphics. It’s built for making professional looking, plots quickly with minimal code. It builds on top of matplotlib and seeks to raise the aesthetics of
Read moreBiggles is a simple, object-oriented plotting library for creating publication-quality 2D scientific plots. You declare a container and then add components in order to make a plot. Biggles provides a set of objects useful in the creation of scientific plots.
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