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SQL

Musoq – SQL Swiss Army Knife

December 18, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Database

Stop writing throwaway scripts. Use SQL instead.

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Circuit board

Ångströmfetch – system fetch tool

December 15, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

Ångströmfetch is billed as the fast(est) system fetch tool for Linux with a low footprint.

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Dire Wolf – AX.25 packet modem/TNC and APRS encoder/decoder

December 14, 2025 Steve Emms Other

Dire Wolf is a software “soundcard” AX.25 packet modem/TNC and APRS encoder/decoder. It can be used stand-alone to observe APRS traffic, and more.

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Documentation

mping – simple multicast ping

December 14, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

mping aspires to be an easy to use and script friendly program with support for both IPv4 and IPv6.

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Circuit board

albafetch – displays system information

December 12, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

albafetch is a simple and fast program to display a lot of system information.

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Video-Emulators

Gearcoleco – cross-platform ColecoVision emulator

December 12, 2025 Steve Emms Emulators, Games

Gearcoleco is a very accurate cross-platform ColecoVision emulator written in C++ that runs on Linux, BSD, RetroArch, macOS, and Windows.

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Document viewer

hostman – simple tool for managing file uploads to hosting services

December 12, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

Hostman is a robust, cross-platform command-line application for uploading files (primarily images) to various hosting services.

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Documentation Generators

ROBODoc – automating the software documentation process

December 11, 2025 Steve Emms Programming

ROBODoc is a program documentation tool. Every function or procedure includes a standard header containing all sorts of information.

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Real-Time Strategy Games

Ballerburg SDL – classical castle combat game

December 11, 2025 Steve Emms Games

Ballerburg SDL is a classical castle combat game for Linux and other systems that are supported by the SDL library.

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Clipboard

clipsim – simple and fast X clipboard manager

December 11, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

clipsim is a clipboard manager. It retrieves clipboard text when the window owning it is closed, and keeps a clipboard history.

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Performance

trickle – bandwidth shaper

December 10, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

trickle is a lightweight userspace bandwidth shaper that is highly configurable.

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NATMap – TCP/UDP port mapping for full-cone NAT

December 9, 2025 Steve Emms Internet

NATMap is used to establish a TCP/UDP port mapping from an ISP NAT public address to local private address.

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Book

kcaldav – simple, safe, and minimal CalDAV server

December 9, 2025 Steve Emms Web Apps

kcaldav is a simple, safe, and minimal CalDAV server depending only on kcgi, sqlite3, and expat.

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Compositing Window Managers

MangoWC – Wayland compositor

December 9, 2025 Steve Emms Desktop

MangoWC is as lightweight as dwl, and can be built completely within a few seconds. Despite this, Mango does not compromise on functionality.

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Security

MemProcFS – view physical memory as files in a virtual file system

December 7, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Scientific

MemProcFS is an easy and convenient way of viewing physical memory as files in a virtual file system.

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Search

Groonga – fulltext search engine and column store

December 6, 2025 Steve Emms Database, Documents

Groonga is a fulltext search engine and column store. It lets you write high-performance applications that requires fulltext search.

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Time tracking

Samaya – minimalist Pomodoro timer for your desktop

December 6, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

Designed to help you stay focused and productive, Samaya offers a clean, distraction-free interface to manage work and break intervals

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Text Editor

Pragtical – practical and pragmatic code editor

December 5, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Programming

Pragtical is a cross-platform code editor with a modern graphical interface, developed using C and Lua(JIT), powered by SDL

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Images of shells by the sea

rash – rudimentary shell

December 5, 2025 Steve Emms Utilities

rash, or really awesome shell (or rat ass shell if you prefer), is a rudimentary shell written in C

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Coding

Infer – static analyzer for Java, C, C++, and Objective-C

December 4, 2025 Eilidih Parris CLI, Programming

Infer is a static analysis tool for Java, C++, Objective-C, and C. Infer is written in OCaml.

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