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Guitar

AmpForge – guitar amp simulator and effects processor

September 21, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia

AmpForge is a guitar amp simulator and effects processor with a reorderable pedalboard, NAM support, presets, tuner and multiple plugin formats.

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Coot – macromolecular model-building and crystallography toolkit

September 21, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Scientific

Coot is an interactive molecular graphics application for macromolecular model building, refinement, validation and cryo-EM workflows.

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Vulnerability Detection

Pharos – static binary analysis framework

September 21, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Security

Pharos is a static binary analysis framework with tools for API analysis, C++ object recovery, function hashing and YARA signature generation.

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Electric Guitar

Open Riff Box – lightweight guitar effects processor

September 20, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia

Open Riff Box is a lightweight guitar effects processor with amp simulation, cabinet IRs, presets, tuner, metronome and VST3 support.

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XCA – graphical certificate and key management

September 19, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Security

XCA is a graphical certificate and key management tool for creating certificate authorities, requests, keys and X.509 certificates.

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IQmol3 – molecular editor and visualization package

September 19, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Scientific

IQmol3 is a molecular editor and visualization package for building molecules, analysing Q-Chem results and displaying molecular properties.

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Security

REDasm – cross-platform disassembler and binary analysis tool

September 19, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Security

REDasm is a cross-platform disassembler and binary analysis tool with graphs, cross-references, type handling, patching and project support.

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slang – SystemVerilog compiler and language services

September 17, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

slang is a fast SystemVerilog compiler and analysis tool offering parsing, elaboration, linting, diagnostics, AST access and Python bindings.

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Command Schedulers

systemd_commander – TUI for managing systemd services

September 16, 2026 Steve Emms System Software, TUI

systemd_commander is an ncurses TUI for managing systemd services, editing unit files and browsing journalctl logs from the terminal.

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paint.software – Paint.NET-style raster image editor for Linux

September 15, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

paint.software is a native Qt 6 raster image editor for Linux with layers, effects, selections, plugins and a familiar Paint.NET workflow.

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Meloville – local music player

September 15, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia, Reviews

Meloville is a desktop music player designed for listening to and managing a local music collection.

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Benchmarking

elbencho – distributed storage benchmark

September 13, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

elbencho is a distributed storage benchmark measuring latency, throughput and IOPS across file systems, object stores, block devices and GPUs.

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Photo Metadata

Kleaner – image metadata cleaner

September 12, 2026 Steve Emms GUI

Kleaner is a graphical image metadata cleaner for removing EXIF, IPTC, XMP and comments from multiple image files before sharing.

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Maths

GCLC – mathematical illustrations and automated geometry theorem proving

September 12, 2026 Steve Emms Scientific

GCLC creates mathematical illustrations and proves geometry theorems, with Qt GUI, command-line and web interfaces plus LaTeX and SVG export.

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Video Editors

Drift – desktop video editor built with Qt 6 and FFmpeg

September 12, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Drift is a Qt 6 and FFmpeg video editor with multitrack editing, effects, transitions, captions, audio tools, multicam, and export.

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Web Design

CivetWeb – embeddable C and C++ web server

September 12, 2026 Steve Emms Web Apps

CivetWeb is an embeddable C and C++ web server with HTTP, HTTPS, WebSocket, CGI, Lua, WebDAV, client APIs, and a standalone mode.

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QDiskInfo – graphical frontend for smartctl

September 11, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, System Software

QDiskInfo is a Qt frontend for smartctl that presents SMART health data for hard drives and SSDs in a CrystalDiskInfo-style interface.

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HPR – automatic offline activity tracker

September 10, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

HPR is an offline automatic activity tracker that records active windows, browser tabs and coding projects with local-only data storage.

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Lumalarm – smart alarm clock that wakes your computer from sleep

September 9, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

Lumalarm is a Qt alarm clock that can suspend and wake your PC, with anti-oversleep challenges, timers, stopwatch and custom sounds.

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EDA

Kactus2 – graphical EDA tool based on the IP-XACT standard

September 9, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Scientific

Kactus2 is a graphical EDA tool for designing SoCs, packaging reusable IP, creating hardware hierarchies, and integrating hardware and software.

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