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Typesetting Tools

SILE – typesetting system for Linux

March 30, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Documents

SILE (Simon’s Improved Layout Engine) is a modern typesetting system designed for producing high-quality printed documents.

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Static Site Generator

luasmith – flexible static site generator

February 17, 2026 Steve Emms Web Apps

luasmith is a small, simple, and flexible static site generator that is similar in design to Metalsmith, but much smaller

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Video

uosc – minimalist proximity-based UI for mpv

January 18, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia

uosc is a feature-rich minimalist proximity-based UI for mpv.

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process

lnko – simple stow-like dotfile linker

December 27, 2025 Steve Emms Software

lnko is a simple stow-like dotfile linker written in the Lua programming language.

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lux – package manager for Lua

December 24, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

lux is a luxurious package manager for Lua.

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Roguelike Games

Shadow of the Wyrm – single player, traditional roguelike

December 20, 2025 Steve Emms Games

Shadow of the Wyrm is a single player, traditional roguelike. You play a shipwrecked adventurer, washed up on the shore of an island far from home.

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Documentation

meow – renders text using your existing Neovim configuration

December 11, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

meow is a command line tool that aims to be a replacement for cat/bat with better highlighting. It’s written in Lua.

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Text Editor

Pragtical – practical and pragmatic code editor

December 5, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Programming

Pragtical is a cross-platform code editor with a modern graphical interface, developed using C and Lua(JIT), powered by SDL

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Selection of utilities

Sysdig – dig deeper

July 15, 2025 Steve Emms Security, System Software

Sysdig is a universal system visibility tool with native support for containers.

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Game Tools

EmptyEpsilon – spaceship bridge simulator game

July 5, 2025 Steve Emms Games

EmptyEpsilon is a spaceship bridge simulator game. It’s fully open source, so it can be modified in any way people wish.

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Web Design

Algernon – small self-contained pure-Go web server

June 22, 2025 Steve Emms Web Apps

Algernon is a mall self-contained pure-Go web server with Lua, Teal, Markdown, Ollama, HTTP/2, QUIC, Redis, SQLite and PostgreSQL support.

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IDE

ZeroBrane Studio – lightweight Lua-based IDE for Lua

May 16, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Programming

ZeroBrane Studio is a lightweight Lua IDE with code completion, syntax highlighting, live coding, code analyzer, and debugging support.

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Development Tools

Fullmoon – fast and minimalistic web framework based on Redbean

March 5, 2025 Eilidih Parris Programming

Fullmoon is a fast and minimalistic web framework based on Redbean — a portable, single-file distributable web server.

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Files

nvim-tree – file explorer for Neovim

January 5, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity, Utilities

nvim-tree.lua is a file explorer / filesystem tree view plugin for Neovim. It’s written in Lua.

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Static Site Generator

Sitegen – static site generator

October 25, 2024 Eilidih Parris Web Apps

Sitegen is a static site generator written in MoonScript and Lua.

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Security

awall – Linux firewall configuration tool

October 12, 2024 Steve Emms Security

awall is a Linux firewall configuration tool, providing various benefits over plain iptables.

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Coding

xmake – cross-platform build utility based on Lua

June 8, 2024 Steve Emms Programming

xmake is a modern build tool that aims to be simple, fast, and offering powerful dependency package integration.

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Static Site Generators

Satelito – static site generator

May 19, 2024 Eilidih Parris Web Apps

Satelito is a static site generator.Satelito uses Markdown (and HTML) for basic content and optionally Lua files for metadata

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Security

BunkerWeb – next-generation Web Application Firewall

April 16, 2024 Steve Emms Security

BunkerWeb is a next-generation and open-source Web Application Firewall (WAF) which offers easy integration with existing environments.

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Typesetting Tools

SILE – typesetting system

April 11, 2024 Steve Emms Documents

SILE is a typesetting system. Its job is to produce beautiful printed documents.

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