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Luminance – control brightness of displays

February 24, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Luminance is a simple GTK application to control brightness of displays including external displays supporting DDC/CI.

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GCLI – interact with GitHub and more

February 23, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

GCLI is a portable CLI tool for interacting with Git(Hub|Lab|Tea), Forgejo and Bugzilla from the command line.

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Clipboard

cclip – clipboard manager for Wayland

February 21, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

cclip is a clipboard manager for Wayland that consists of two tools

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Soundboardd – small local soundboard daemon

February 21, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

Soundboardd is a small local soundboard daemon that preloads audio files from a configuration file and plays them on request.

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CSharpier – opinionated code formatter for C# and XML.

February 20, 2026 Steve Emms Programming

CSharpier is an opinionated code formatter for C# and XML. It parses your code and re-prints it using its own rules.

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Find Duplicates

krep – optimized string search utility

February 20, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

krep is an optimized string search utility designed for maximum throughput and efficiency when processing large files and directories.

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picocom – minimal dumb-terminal emulation program

February 17, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

picocom is a minimal dumb-terminal emulation program. It is, in principle, very much like minicom, only it’s “pico” instead of “mini”.

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Text Editor

sled – simple text editor

February 15, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, TUI

sled is a simple text editor with a terminal UI.

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accel-php – PPTP/L2TP/SSTP/PPPoE/IPoE server

February 12, 2026 Steve Emms System Software

ACCEL-PPP is a completely new implementation of PPTP/PPPoE/L2TP/SSTP which was written from scratch.

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revela – static image gallery generator

February 11, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

revela is a static web image gallery generator. It optimizes images for the web and generates HTML files to create a photo/image gallery.

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Network

NetSonar – network diagnostics tool

February 10, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

NetSonar is a network diagnostics tool for pinging hosts, managing network interfaces, and discovering local devices/services.

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Files

FAT – modern TUI-based file and archive viewer

February 3, 2026 Steve Emms Productivity, TUI, Utilities

FAT is designed for developers and power users who want to quickly inspect files and peek inside archives.

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process

Hexus – process manager

February 2, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Hexus is a process manager built using .NET 10 designed to work on Linux and Windows seamlessly.

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Virtual Keyboard

wvkbd – on-screen keyboard for wlroots

February 1, 2026 Steve Emms Utilities

wvkbd aims to deliver a minimal but practically usable implementation of a wlroots on-screen keyboard in legible C.

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Coding

libfyaml – fully-featured YAML 1.2 and JSON parser/writer

January 29, 2026 Eilidih Parris Programming

libfyaml is a fully-featured YAML 1.2 and JSON parser/writer with zero-copy operation and no artificial limits.

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Selection of utilities

LiDM – light login manager

January 27, 2026 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

LiDM is a really light unix login manager made in C which aims to be highly customizable

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Development Tools

6 Top Free and Open Source C Web Frameworks

January 25, 2026 Eilidih Parris Programming, Roundup

We recommend the best free and open source C web frameworks.

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Task Manager

Finitodo – graphical task/todo list manager

January 22, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

Finitodo is a graphical task/todo list manager that aims to be flexible and capable without being overly complicated.

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Compositing Window Managers

Volare – Wayland compositor

January 20, 2026 Steve Emms Desktop

Volare is a tabbed, tiling Wayland compositor written in the C language

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Bitcoin

Bitcoin Knots – run your own node on your own wallet

January 16, 2026 Steve Emms Financial, GUI

Bitcoin Knots connects to the Bitcoin peer-to-peer network to download and fully validate blocks and transactions.

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