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Selection of utilities

beekeeper-qt – deduplicate redundant data

January 20, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

beekeeper-qt lets you free up disk space by removing redundant block-level data, both inside files and across multiple files.

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Internet Radio

Transistor – GUI internet radio player

January 20, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Internet, Reviews

Transistor is a GUI internet radio player for Linux written in C++. It’s impressive to say the least!

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Documents

mokii – ls replacement

January 20, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Mokii is a modern file listing utility that levels up your ls game. It brings Unicode icons, color coding, sorting options

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PDF

dodo – fast and configurable PDF viewer

January 19, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, GUI

dodo is billed as a fast, keyboard-friendly PDF reader built for smooth reading, quick navigation, and deep customization.

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Bitcoin

Bitcoin Knots – run your own node on your own wallet

January 16, 2026 Steve Emms Financial, GUI

Bitcoin Knots connects to the Bitcoin peer-to-peer network to download and fully validate blocks and transactions.

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Database

Ladybug – embedded graph database

January 14, 2026 Steve Emms Database

Ladybug is optimized for handling complex analytical workloads on very large databases and provides a set of retrieval features

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Text Editor

jrnlc – plain-text terminal journal

January 10, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Documents

jrnlc is a personal project built to be simple, fast, and predictable. It stores journal entries in a plain-text file

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Whatsit – native desktop client for WhatsApp

January 10, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Internet

Whatsit is a lightweight, native desktop client for WhatsApp Web built with Qt 6 and Qt WebEngine.

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Desktop

Orbitiny Desktop – modern looking desktop environment

January 8, 2026 Steve Emms Desktop

Orbitiny Desktop is a portable, innovative and traditional but modern looking desktop environment for Linux.

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Coding

Seer – GUI frontend to GDB

January 7, 2026 Steve Emms Programming

Seer aims to provide a simple yet attractive GUI frontend to GDB.

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nchat – terminal-based chat client

January 6, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, TUI

nchat is a terminal-based chat client for Linux and macOS with support for Telegram and WhatsApp.

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Musical instruments

idntag – identify and tag audio files

January 6, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

Idntag is a command-line tool that identifies artist and title of specified audio files and updates their ID3-tag meta-data

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Video-Emulators

Amiberry – optimized Amiga emulator

January 5, 2026 Steve Emms Emulators

Amiberry is an optimized Amiga emulator for Intel/AMD, ARM (32bit and 64bit) and RISC-V platforms.

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InfoDash – displays RSS feeds, weather and stock information

January 5, 2026 Steve Emms Financial, GUI, Internet, Scientific

InfoDash is a modern GTK4 dashboard application for Linux that displays RSS feeds, weather, and stock data.

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cpx – CLI for C++ that unifies the fragmented C++ ecosystem

January 2, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

cpx provides a cohesive, Cargo-like experience for managing projects, dependencies, and builds, regardless of your underlying build system.

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Circuit board

Metetch – system information display utility

January 2, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

Metetch is a fast system information tool with a minimal aesthetic inspired by KDE Plasma and Wayland.

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Music player

namp – terminal-based music player

December 30, 2025 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews, TUI

namp is a minimalistic terminal-based MP3 player for Linux and macOS, implemented in C++ / Qt.

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Monitoring

Watchman – file watching service

December 30, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Watchman watches files and record when they change. It can also trigger actions (such as rebuilding assets) when matching files change.

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Linux

Bobcat – terminal emulator

December 29, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity, Utilities

Bobcat is a modern, feature-rich terminal emulator that works across all major operating systems.

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Selection of utilities

Bongo Cat Wayland Overlay – animated bongo cat reacting to your keyboard input

December 28, 2025 Steve Emms GUI

Bongo Cat Wayland Overlay is a cute Wayland overlay that shows an animated bongo cat reacting to your keyboard input.

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