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Vulnerability Detection

LIEF – work with executable and binary formats

April 25, 2026 Steve Emms Security

LIEF is a cross-platform library for working with executable and binary formats.

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DevOps

RetDec – retargetable machine-code decompiler

April 25, 2026 Steve Emms Security

RetDec is a retargetable machine-code decompiler based on LLVM.

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Security

Cutter – graphical reverse engineering platform

April 25, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Security

Cutter is a graphical reverse engineering platform designed for analysing compiled binaries without needing a command line.

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Selection of utilities

hashdeep – generate and verify file hashes

April 24, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

hashdeep is a command line tool for generating and verifying file hashes across large collections of files.

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Data Science Notebooks

OMERewriter – edit common fields in OME-TIFF files

April 23, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Scientific

OMERewriter is a desktop application for microscopy imaging workflows that focuses on working with OME-TIFF metadata.

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hyprpicker – wlroots-compatible Wayland colour picker for Linux

April 20, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

hyprpicker is a wlroots-compatible Wayland colour picker for Linux.

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Monitoring

fswatch – reports changes to files and directories

April 20, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

fswatch is a cross-platform command-line utility and frontend to libfswatch that reports changes to files and directories as they happen.

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DNA

GW – fast browser for genomic sequencing data

April 19, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Scientific

GW is a terminal-based genome browser designed for inspecting sequencing experiments and reviewing variants.

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Benchmarking

vkmark – Vulkan benchmarking suite

April 19, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

vkmark is a Vulkan benchmarking suite built around targeted, configurable scenes to measure different aspects of Vulkan performance.

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Benchmarking

glmark2 – graphics benchmark

April 18, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

glmark2 is a graphics benchmark designed to measure the performance of OpenGL 2.0 and OpenGL ES 2.0 implementations

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Selection of utilities

IChingDiviner – desktop I-Ching divination application

April 17, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Other

IChingDiviner is a desktop I-Ching divination application that brings the traditional Chinese oracle to Linux with a modern interface.

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Maths

Xcas – cross-platform mathematical environment

April 15, 2026 Steve Emms Scientific

Xcas is a cross-platform mathematical environment built around the Giac computer algebra engine.

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Technology

Ermis – steganographic application

April 15, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Security

Ermis is a cross-platform steganography application for hiding and extracting secret data inside digital media files on Linux.

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Automation

BiggerTask – TinyTask clone for Linux

April 13, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

BiggerTask s designed to give Linux users a straightforward way to automate repetitive desktop actions.

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Foreign Languages

LocalTranslate – machine translation locally using Firefox translation models

April 13, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, GUI, Scientific

LocalTranslate is a desktop application for Linux that performs machine translation locally using Firefox translation models.

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Photo Metadata

OMERewriter – view and rewrite OME-TIFF metadata

April 13, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI, Scientific

OMERewriter is a desktop application for working with microscopy image metadata stored in OME-TIFF files.

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Image of Files

Katalog – manage catalogs of disks and files

April 12, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Katalog is a desktop application for cataloging files and storage devices so you can search, browse, and analyze their contents.

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ampd

mpdscribble – MPD client

April 8, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia, TUI

mpdscribble is a client for Music Player Daemon that submits information about tracks being played to scrobbler services such as Last.fm.

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Hex Editor

HexMe – hex editor

April 7, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, TUI

HexMe is a terminal-based hex editor written in C++ that uses the Curses library for its text user interface.

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Gem of the Week

PaddleOCR – OCR and document-parsing toolkit

April 6, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, Reviews

PaddleOCR is an open-source OCR and document-parsing toolkit. It’s used to extract text and document structure from images and PDFs.

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