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SSD

SquirrelDisk – fast and attractive disk usage analyzer

October 1, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Reviews, Utilities

SquirrelDisk is a fast open source disk usage analyzer with sunburst and treemap views, cleanup tools, SSH scanning, cloud storage and themes.

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MQTT TUI – terminal user interface for MQTT

October 1, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, TUI

MQTT TUI is a terminal user interface for MQTT that lets users subscribe to topics, watch incoming messages, and publish payloads.

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Tako – multi-transport Rust framework for network services

September 30, 2026 Steve Emms Programming

Tako is a Rust framework for building backend network services across HTTP, WebSocket, SSE, gRPC, TCP, UDP, Unix sockets and WebTransport.

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Zone Timeline TUI – compare time zones and working hours

September 30, 2026 Steve Emms Productivity, TUI

Zone Timeline TUI compares time zones and working hours with interactive timelines, overlap analysis, a world map and plain-text output.

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JSON Tools

vy – interactive JSON and YAML explorer

September 29, 2026 Steve Emms Programming

vy is an interactive tool for exploring and querying JSON and YAML with keyboard navigation, subtree focus and jaq-based filtering.

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gifski – high-quality animated GIF encoder

September 29, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

gifski is a high-quality animated GIF encoder using pngquant techniques, temporal dithering, resizing and quality controls.

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Best Free GUI Diff Tools

meld-rs – visual diff and merge tool

September 29, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

meld-rs is a Rust and GTK 4 visual diff and merge tool with file and directory comparison, three-way merging and VCS integration.

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Hex Editor

HexPatch – binary patcher and editor with TUI

September 28, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, TUI

HexPatch is a Rust TUI binary editor and patcher with disassembly, assembly, SSH editing, Lua plugins and broad executable format support.

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Hex Editor

dz6 – Vim-inspired terminal hex editor

September 28, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, TUI

dz6 is a fast Vim-inspired terminal hex editor for inspecting and editing binary files with search, bookmarks, comments and header parsing.

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Era – responsive calendar for everyday planning

September 28, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

Era is a responsive calendar for Linux that syncs with online providers, works offline, and adapts from compact views to detailed planning.

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Benchmarking

hw-monitor – comprehensive hardware monitoring application

September 28, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, System Software

hw-monitor is a Linux desktop hardware monitor with live CPU, memory, GPU, disk and network data, sensors, processes and services.

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Hakoniwa – process isolation using Linux security facilities

September 27, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Security

Hakoniwa provides Linux process isolation with namespaces, cgroups, resource limits, Landlock, seccomp and configurable filesystem access.

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Music image

mpdris2-rs – expose MPD playback through MPRIS2

September 27, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

mpdris2-rs is a lightweight Rust bridge exposing MPD playback and queue information through MPRIS2, with remote cover art support.

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Selection of utilities

pacrank – pick the fastest Arch Linux mirrors

September 27, 2026 Steve Emms Utilities

pacrank ranks Arch Linux mirrors using latency and real download throughput, then safely replaces Pacman’s mirrorlist with the fastest choices.

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Syd – configurable application sandbox for Linux

September 27, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Security

Syd is a Linux application sandbox using seccomp, Landlock and namespaces to control filesystem, network and process behaviour.

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Mixer

wiremix – terminal audio mixer for PipeWire

September 27, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia, TUI

wiremix is a terminal PipeWire mixer for adjusting volumes, routing audio, selecting devices and profiles, and monitoring peak levels.

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Configuring music

coppwr – low-level graphical control for PipeWire

September 26, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

coppwr provides low-level graphical control of PipeWire with node graph editing, object inspection, metadata editing and profiling tools.

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Sound Systems

Helvum – graphical patchbay for PipeWire

September 25, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Helvum is a graphical PipeWire patchbay for creating and removing connections between audio, video and MIDI applications and devices.

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Logfile Viewer

fblog – view and filter JSON logs

September 25, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

fblog is a command-line JSON log viewer with Lua filtering, customizable formatting and colorized log levels.

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Logfile Viewer

Journal Viewer – graphical systemd journal viewer

September 24, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, System Software

Journal Viewer is a graphical application for viewing, searching and filtering systemd journal logs with powerful filtering and graphs.

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