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PlotJuggler – visualizing and analyzing time series data

May 26, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

PlotJuggler is a fast, flexible tool for visualizing and analyzing time series data.

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Fractals

Fractals Generator – render and explore fractals in real time

May 24, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

Fractals Generator is a lightweight C/C++ application for rendering and exploring fractals in real time.

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Mixer

pavucontrol-qt – Pulseaudio mixer in Qt

May 24, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

pavucontrol-qt is a Qt port of pavucontrol, the PulseAudio volume control utility.

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Synthesizers

Six Sines – small synthesizer

May 20, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Six Sines is a compact software synthesizer built around audio-rate inter-modulation.

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7 Best Free and Open Source C and C++ Linter Tools

May 20, 2026 Eilidih Parris Programming, Roundup

This article picks some useful tools to help you fix C and C++ code.

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Include What You Use – source analysis tool

May 19, 2026 Steve Emms Programming

Include What You Use is a source analysis tool for C and C++ projects built on Clang.

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Audio Analyzers

Partiels – audio analysis tool

May 15, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Partiels is an audio analysis suite for studying the content and characteristics of sound files.

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Audio Editors

Open Sound Meter – measurement tool

May 15, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia

Open Sound Meter is a cross-platform measurement application for tuning sound systems in real time.

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Compression

lrzip-next – Long Range ZIP

May 14, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

lrzip-next is a long-range compression utility. The project builds on the original design with a large number of enhancements.

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rr – record-and-replay debugger for Linux

May 13, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

rr is a record-and-replay debugger for Linux that captures a program’s execution and lets you replay the exact same run later inside gdb.

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Machine Learning

waifu2x-ncnn-vulkan – upscaler and denoiser

May 12, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

waifu2x-ncnn-vulkan is a command-line image upscaler and denoiser built on the ncnn inference framework.

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Encrypted Files

SirKali – Qt/C++ GUI front end

May 10, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Security

SiriKali is a Qt and C++ graphical application for working with encrypted folders and remote file systems.

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Wallpaper Setter

Hyprpaper – wallpaper utility designed for Hyprland

May 7, 2026 Steve Emms Utilities

Hyprpaper is a wallpaper utility designed for Hyprland, a Wayland compositor. It’s built to manage desktop backgrounds efficiently.

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Chemistry

Indigo – universal cheminformatics toolkit

May 4, 2026 Steve Emms Scientific

Indigo is a universal cheminformatics toolkit for working with molecules and reactions.

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Git Clients

Kommit – graphical Git client

May 4, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Programming

Kommit is a graphical Git client from KDE that gives Linux users a desktop interface for working with Git repositories.

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Chemistry

RDKit – cheminformatics and machine-learning software

May 4, 2026 Steve Emms Scientific

RDKit is a cheminformatics toolkit that helps users work with molecular structures, chemical data, and machine-learning workflows.

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Hex Editor

Hexit – minimalistic hex editor

May 4, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, TUI

Hexit is a terminal-based hex editor written in C++ for inspecting and editing binary data from a text user interface.

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Hellwal – fast and extensible color palette generator

May 4, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

Hellwal is designed to create terminal and desktop color schemes from wallpaper images or predefined theme files.

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Diff Tools

vbl – terminal-based hexadecimal viewer for Linux

May 3, 2026 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

vbl is a terminal-based hexadecimal viewer that lets you inspect binary data from files and devices in a dynamic hex and ASCII interface.

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Radio

inspectrum – radio signal analyser for examining captured signals

May 2, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

inspectrum is a radio signal analyser for examining captured signals, with a particular focus on recordings from software-defined radio receivers.

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