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onsen – rain sounds and white noise

April 6, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

onsen is a small Python command line utility that brings a relaxing hot-springs theme to the terminal.

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Gem of the Week

PaddleOCR – OCR and document-parsing toolkit

April 6, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, Reviews

PaddleOCR is an open-source OCR and document-parsing toolkit. It’s used to extract text and document structure from images and PDFs.

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Documentation

Alternatives to popular CLI tools: awk

April 6, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Software

This article spotlights alternative tools to awk, software specialized for textual data manipulation.

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mplay – command-line music player inspired by cplay

April 6, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia, TUI

mplay is a command-line music player inspired by cplay, but with a richer terminal interface and a strong emphasis on customization.

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GNOME Cam Overlay – webcam preview as a borderless overlay

April 6, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Cam Overlay is a lightweight utility designed to add graphical overlays to video streams, for use with camera feeds and live video processing.

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Encrypted Files

Hideout – file encryption and decryption

April 6, 2026 Steve Emms GUI

Hideout is a minimal desktop application designed to simplify file encryption and decryption using GnuPG.

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bpftop – dynamic real-time view of running eBPF programs

April 5, 2026 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

bpftop is a command-line monitoring tool developed by Netflix that provides a real-time, top-like interface for observing running eBPF programs

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S3ry – AWS S3 interactive terminal client

April 5, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Internet, TUI

S3ry is an interactive terminal application for managing Amazon S3 buckets and objects.

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Audio

Noisedash – self-hostable web tool to generate ambient noises

April 5, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia, Web Apps

Noisedash is a self-hostable web application for building ambient soundscapes in the browser.

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Graphics

Domenico – create looping animated GIFs

April 5, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

Domenico is a simple FFmpeg GUI for creating high-quality looping GIFs from MP4 and MOV video files.

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flowR – sophisticated, static dataflow analyzer

April 5, 2026 Steve Emms Programming

flowR is a sophisticated static analysis framework for the R programming language.

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arp-scan – minimalistic ARP scan tool

April 5, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

arp-scan is a command-line network discovery tool written in Rust.

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Framework

Univer – build AI-native spreadsheets

April 5, 2026 Steve Emms Office, Programming

Univer is an isomorphic full-stack framework for building and embedding spreadsheet, document, and presentation editors.

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Typesetting Tools

TexLab – cross-platform implementation of the Language Server Protocol for LaTeX

April 5, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, Scientific

TexLab is a cross-platform implementation of the Language Server Protocol for LaTeX.

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Monitor Calibration

Calibrate your Monitor with these Open Source Tools

April 5, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, Roundup, Utilities

If you value image quality and accuracy, calibration of your monitor will be important. These tools ensure your monitor is calibrated.

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Typesetting Tools

Tectonic – modernised, self-contained TeX and LaTeX engine

April 5, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, Scientific

Tectonic is a modernised, self-contained TeX and LaTeX engine powered by XeTeX and TeX Live.

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Selection of utilities

RFC Reader – terminal-based viewer for IETF Request for Comments documents

April 5, 2026 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

RFC Reader is a terminal-based viewer for IETF Request for Comments documents written in Rust.

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Manga

Kitsune – libadwaita client for watching anime from AniLiberty

April 4, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Other

Kitsune is a Libadwaita client for watching anime using content provided by the AniLiberty team through its public API.

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IDE

Eclipse Theia – cloud & desktop IDE framework

April 4, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Programming

Eclipse Theia is an extensible framework for building full-featured cloud and desktop IDEs and developer tools with modern web technologies.

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Electronic circuit

GeckoCIRCUITS – circuit simulator optimized for power electronics

April 4, 2026 Steve Emms Scientific

GeckoCIRCUITS is a circuit simulation environment designed specifically for power electronics applications.

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