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Monitor System

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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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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Files

wak – compact implementation of the awk programming language

April 2, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

wak is a compact implementation of the awk programming language designed for both standalone use and integration with Toybox.

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Webcam Tools

camera-streamer – low-latency camera streaming project for Raspberry Pi systems

April 1, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

camera-streamer is a high-performance, low-latency camera streaming project for Raspberry Pi systems and similar single-board computers.

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Monitor Calibration

ddcui – graphical user interface for ddcutil

April 1, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI, Utilities

ddcui is a graphical user interface for ddcutil, a Linux utility used to control and query monitor settings via the DDC/CI protocol.

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Flash OS

Raspberry Pi Imager – create bootable media

March 31, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity, Utilities

Raspberry Pi Imager is a cross-platform application designed to simplify the process of preparing bootable media for Raspberry Pi devices.

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Automation

CrossMacro – mouse and keyboard macro recorder and player

March 30, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

CrossMacro is a cross-platform mouse and keyboard macro recorder and player. It is designed for automation workflows.

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Satellite Tool

strf – satellite tracking toolkit for radio observations

March 25, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Scientific

strf is designed to track satellites from radio observations by using Doppler curves to identify satellites and determine their orbits.

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Satellite Tool

GNSS-SDR – software-defined receiver for Global Navigation Satellite System signals

March 25, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Scientific

GNSS-SDR processes satellite signals to perform detection, synchronization, demodulation, navigation message decoding, and position fixing.

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Gem of the Week

ImageGlass – versatile image viewer

March 23, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI, Reviews

ImageGlass is a lightweight, versatile image viewer with a clean, modern interface that’s now available for Linux.

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svnsearch – search through SVN log diffs

March 22, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

svnsearch is a command-line utility for searching through Subversion repository history using exact text or regular expressions.

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Images of shells by the sea

PowerShell – cross-platform automation and configuration framework

March 22, 2026 Steve Emms Utilities

PowerShell is a cross-platform automation and configuration framework that combines an interactive command-line shell, a scripting language, and more.

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Emacs Software

QEmacs – small but powerful UNIX editor

March 21, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, GUI, TUI

QEmacs is a small but powerful text editor with an Emacs-like interface.

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Backup software

cecup – GUI backup tool based on rsync

March 20, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, System Software

cecup is a graphical backup and directory synchronisation tool built around rsync.

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Sports Games

NetStats Baseball – simulation of Major League Baseball

March 19, 2026 Steve Emms Games

NSB is a simulation of Major League Baseball. It is a client/server application written in C.

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Selection of utilities

t2sz – compresses a file into a seekable zstd

March 19, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

t2sz compresses a file into a seekable zstd, splitting the file into multiple frames.

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TAYGA – out-of-kernel stateless NAT64 implementation

March 18, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

TAYGA is a stateless NAT64 implementation designed to provide IPv6 connectivity to IPv4-only hosts and services.

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Bioinformatics

minimap2 – versatile sequence alignment program

March 18, 2026 Steve Emms Security

minimap2 is a versatile sequence alignment program for genomic and spliced nucleotide sequences.

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Bioinformatics

BCFtools – variant calling and manipulating files in the Variant Call Format

March 17, 2026 Steve Emms Scientific

BCFtools is a set of utilities for working with variant calls in Variant Call Format (VCF) and its binary counterpart BCF.

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Bioinformatics

samtools – manipulate next-generation sequencing data

March 17, 2026 Steve Emms Scientific

samtools is a suite of tools written in C using HTSlib for manipulating next-generation sequencing data.

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