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Focus Timer – Pomodoro time-management application

September 10, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

Focus Timer is a GTK Pomodoro application with configurable work and break sessions, statistics, shortcuts, overlays and GNOME integration.

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Heralding – credentials-catching network honeypot

September 10, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Security

Heralding is a credentials-catching honeypot that emulates common authentication services and records usernames, passwords, and session data.

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Zephyr – lightweight modular Zsh framework

September 10, 2026 Steve Emms Utilities

Zephyr is a lightweight, modular Zsh framework with independent plugins for completion, history, prompts, editing and shell configuration.

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HPR – automatic offline activity tracker

September 10, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

HPR is an offline automatic activity tracker that records active windows, browser tabs and coding projects with local-only data storage.

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PodFetch – self-hosted podcast manager with gPodder integration

September 10, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia, Web Apps

PodFetch is a self-hosted podcast manager for downloading, playing and organising podcasts through a web interface with gPodder integration.

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Task Manager

Autasker – flexible offline task manager

September 10, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

Autasker is an offline graphical task manager with flexible repeating tasks, reminders, day planning, categories, habits and a canvas view.

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File Managers

LocalGo – LocalSend-compatible command-line file sharing

September 10, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

LocalGo is a LocalSend-compatible CLI for secure local file transfers, device discovery, clipboard sharing, web downloads and headless operation.

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Dionaea – honeypot for capturing exploit and malware activity

September 10, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Security

Dionaea is a network honeypot that emulates vulnerable services, detects shellcode, captures attack activity, and supports numerous protocols.

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worldclock-tty – real-time terminal-based world clock

September 9, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity

worldclock-tty displays multiple time zones in real time with configurable themes, UTC offsets, military time and IANA timezone support.

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OpenCanary – modular multi-protocol network honeypot

September 9, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Security

OpenCanary is a lightweight, modular network honeypot that emulates common services and generates alerts when attackers interact with them.

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Tasks – simple task manager for the COSMIC desktop

September 9, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

Tasks is a simple graphical task manager for the COSMIC desktop with search, reminders, sorting, favourites, trash and Flatpak support.

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Lumalarm – smart alarm clock that wakes your computer from sleep

September 9, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

Lumalarm is a Qt alarm clock that can suspend and wake your PC, with anti-oversleep challenges, timers, stopwatch and custom sounds.

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Security

Talisman – detect sensitive data before Git commits

September 9, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Security

Talisman scans Git changesets for passwords, tokens, private keys and other sensitive data before they are committed or pushed.

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EDA

Kactus2 – graphical EDA tool based on the IP-XACT standard

September 9, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Scientific

Kactus2 is a graphical EDA tool for designing SoCs, packaging reusable IP, creating hardware hierarchies, and integrating hardware and software.

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Clocks

clock-rs – modern digital clock for your terminal

September 9, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity, TUI

clock-rs is a configurable terminal clock with timer and stopwatch modes, flexible positioning, colours, date formatting and UTC support.

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Typing

typa – minimal terminal typing speed test

September 9, 2026 Steve Emms Education, TUI

typa is a lightweight terminal typing test offering timed, word, quote, and code modes with detailed statistics and custom themes.

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WiFi 7

WHAD Client – Wireless Protocol Exploration Framework

September 9, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Security

WHAD Client is a command-line framework for capturing, analysing, replaying and experimenting with traffic from supported wireless devices and protocols.

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Security

detect-secrets – detect and prevent secrets in source code

September 9, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Security

detect-secrets helps teams detect and prevent credentials from entering source code using baselines, plugins, filters and Git hooks.

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Electronic circuit

XicTools – electronic design and circuit simulation suite

September 9, 2026 Steve Emms Scientific

XicTools is an electronic design suite featuring the Xic IC layout editor, WRspice circuit simulator, extraction tools, and more.

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Fluxion – Wireless Security Auditing Tool

September 8, 2026 Steve Emms Security

Fluxion is a terminal-based security auditing tool for evaluating WPA and WPA2 network exposure through controlled captive-portal testing.

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