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Bcachefs – advanced filesystem for Linux

September 1, 2025 Steve Emms System Software

Bcachefs is an advanced filesystem for Linux, with an emphasis on reliability and robustness

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Uncrustify – source code beautifer

August 26, 2025 Eilidih Parris CLI, Programming

Uncrustify is a source code beautifier for C, C++, C#, Objective-C, D, Java, Pawn and Vala.

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Encrypted Files

Xecrets Cli – AxCrypt compatible encryption tool

August 22, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Security

Xecrets Cli is a command line file (Cli) file encryption toolbox, runs on Linux, macOS and Windows

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dnsperf – measure performance of authoritative domain name services

August 21, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

dnsperf and resperf are tools that make it simple to gather accurate latency and throughput metrics for Domain Name Service (DNS).

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DF-SHOW – Directory File Show

August 18, 2025 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

DF-SHOW (Directory File Show) is a Unix-like rewrite of some of the applications from Larry Kroeker’s DF-EDIT

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System administration

TinyDNS – tiny DNS server

August 16, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

TinyDNS is a tiny DNS server with simple JSON config written in C.

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cmusfm – Last.fm scrobbler for cmus music player

August 14, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

cmusfm allows to configure regular expression patterns for local files and for shoutcast streaming services.

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mpris-scrobbler – minimalistic user daemon

August 13, 2025 Steve Emms Multimedia

mpris-scrobbler is a minimalistic user daemon which submits the currently playing song to libre.fm and compatible services.

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Music player

mpris-ctl – control music players

August 12, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

mpris-ctl is a minimalistic command-line interface tool for controlling audio players exposing a MPRIS DBus interface.

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playerctl – MPRIS media player command-line controller

August 7, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

Playerctl is a command-line utility and library for controlling media players that implement the MPRIS D-Bus Interface Specification.

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rewindtty – terminal session recorder and replayer

August 7, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

rewindtty is a terminal session recorder and replayer written in C to capture and replay terminal sessions with precise timing.

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Web Design

5 Best Free and Open Source C Static Site Generators

August 5, 2025 Eilidih Parris Roundup, Web Apps

We have compiled a list of the finest C static site generators.

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sshp – parallel SSH executor

August 2, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

sshp manages multiple ssh processes and handles coalescing the output to the terminal.

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Monitor System

TkmViewer – analyse TaskMonitor output

July 31, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, System Software

TkmViewer is a graphical user interface to visualize output SQLite3 data format from the TaskMonitor daemon.

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Document viewer

Manuals – read developer documentation

July 27, 2025 Steve Emms Programming

Manuals indexes your developer manuals and provides robust browsing and searching capabilities.

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Network

cgmnlm – colorful Gemini line mode client

July 26, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet, TUI

cgmnlm is a colorful Gemini line mode client which includes a CLI utility (gmni) and a line-mode browser (cgmnlm).

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Configuring music

Elektroid – sample and MIDI device manager

July 24, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, Multimedia

Elektroid is a sample and MIDI device manager. It includes the elektroid GUI application and the elektroid-cli CLI application.

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Video Editing

mpv-mpris – plugin for mpv

July 22, 2025 Steve Emms Multimedia

mpv-mpris is a plugin for mpv which allows control of the player using standard media keys.

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opencu – minimalistic serial terminal emulator

July 16, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

opencu is serial terminal emulator. It’s a port of OpenBSD’s serial terminal emulator cu to Linux.

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Chess

minnow – simple and fairly weak chess engine

July 15, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Games

minnow is a chess engine with partial UCI compatibility, a 10×12 board representation with piece lists.

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