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Wi-Fi

iwinfo – provides wifi information about capabilities and network(s)

November 12, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

iwinfo shows information about existing wireless connections along with the result of an optional scan for wireless devices.

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yabd – yet another brightness daemon

November 12, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

yabd is a simple (~300 lines of python) daemon that sets the brightness of the screen depending on ambient brightness.

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Wallpaper Setter

SwayBG+ – advanced multi-monitor background manager for sway

November 11, 2025 Steve Emms Utilities

SwayBG+ is a powerful, feature-rich background manager specifically designed for Sway window manager.

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Video

Phantom Player – simple video player

November 11, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Phantom Player offers a range of practical features, making it easy to play, organize, and manage videos from your hard drive.

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Audio Analyzers

Cable – tool to dynamically modify Pipewire and Wireplumber settings

November 9, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Cable is a PyQT GUI application to dynamically modify Pipewire and Wireplumber settings at runtime.

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Reference Management

QuickBib – fetch BibTeX for DOIs and arXiv identifiers

November 9, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Education, GUI

QuickBib fetches BibTeX entries from DOIs, arXiv IDs, and known journal URLs. Quickly convert identifiers into usable BibTeX records.

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axx – generalized assembler

November 8, 2025 Steve Emms Programming

axx.py is a general assembler that generalizes assemblers. In theory, it can process almost any von Neumann type processor architecture.

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SSD

duviz – render ASCII-art representation of disk space usage

November 8, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

duviz is a (Python 3) command-line tool to visualize disk space usage.

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Selection of utilities

Arch Linux MCP Server – Arch Linux MCP (Model Context Protocol)

November 7, 2025 Steve Emms System Software

Arch Linux MCP Server is a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that bridges AI assistants with the Arch Linux ecosystem.

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Network

Meshtastic – decentralized mesh networking ecosystem

November 7, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

Meshtastic is a project that lets you use inexpensive LoRa radios as a long range off-grid communicator for areas without reliable cellular service.

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Laser cutting

Rayforge – laser cutters and engravers tool

November 4, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Scientific

Rayforge is a modern, cross-platform G-code sender and control software for GRBL-based laser cutters and engravers.

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Machine Learning in Linux

Machine Learning in Linux: Dia – 1.6B parameter text to speech model

November 4, 2025 Steve Emms Reviews, Scientific

Dia is a text to speech model capable of generating ultra-realistic dialogue in a single pass.

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Configuring music

Millisecond – optimize your system for low latency audio

November 2, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Millisecond provides system diagnostics and offers tips to improve low latency performance for audio production.

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Reference Managers

coBib – console bibliography

November 1, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, TUI, Utilities

coBib is a simple, console-based bibliography management tool.

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Stockmarket

Merkato – monitor stocks and currencies

October 31, 2025 Steve Emms Financial, GUI

Merkato is a modern financial data tracker that brings market information directly to your desktop.

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Voice Recognition

hyprwhspr – native speech-to-text

October 30, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

hyprwhspr is a native speech-to-text designed for Arch / Omarchy. It aims to provide fast, accurate and easy system-wide dictation.

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sshtool – simple interactive SSH session manager

October 30, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

sshtool is a simple interactive SSH session manager with encrypted configuration storage using GPG.

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Reference Managers

Xapers – personal journal article management system

October 29, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Education, TUI

Xapers is a personal document indexing system, geared towards academic journal articles. It’s written in Python.

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Reference Managers

BibMan – TUI bibliography manager

October 28, 2025 Steve Emms Education, TUI

BibMan is a TUI bibliography manager. Its goal is to support basis features as a general bibliography manager.

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Anti-Malware Tools

Lenspect – scan files for threats

October 25, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Security

Lenspect is a lightweight security threat scanner intended to make malware detection more accessible and efficient.

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