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Static Site Generator

Kodama – command-line static site generator

July 23, 2026 Steve Emms Web Apps

Kodama is a command-line static site generator designed for creating interconnected Zettelkasten-style note collections.

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Static Site Generator

Dodeca – fully incremental static site generator

July 22, 2026 Steve Emms Web Apps

Dodeca is a fully incremental static site generator. It uses cached queries throughout its build pipeline.

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Music

SparkPlayer – visually appealing media player

July 22, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia, Reviews, TUI

SparkPlayer is a terminal media player with album art, video playback, playlists, visualizers and extensive theme support.

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Selection of utilities

gsty – terminal-based theme browser for Ghostty

July 22, 2026 Steve Emms Utilities

gsty is a terminal-based theme browser for the Ghostty terminal emulator. It’s written in the Rust language.

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Famous Landmarks

Imagine Plus – desktop image optimisation utility

July 21, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

Imagine Plus is a desktop image optimisation utility for compressing, converting and resizing images.

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Selection of utilities

usbtree – TUI tool to inspect the USB device tree

July 21, 2026 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

usbtree is a cross-platform terminal user interface for inspecting USB device hierarchies.

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Music Player

koan – audiophile music player

July 20, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia, Reviews, TUI

koan is a terminal-based music player designed for high-quality local and streamed audio playback. Written in Rust with a Ratatui interface.

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renCal – modern, local-first desktop calendar application

July 20, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

renCal is a modern, local-first desktop calendar application designed for Omarchy and available for other Linux distributions and macOS.

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Git Clients

ghgrab – grab anything you want

July 18, 2026 Steve Emms Programming, TUI

ghgrab is a terminal tool for browsing and downloading individual files and folders from source code repositories without cloning.

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Selection of utilities

regexplain – explain and visualize regular expressions

July 18, 2026 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

regexplain parses patterns into a simplified syntax tree and generates human-readable descriptions of their components.

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Pretty YAML – semi-tolerant and configurable YAML formatter

July 17, 2026 Steve Emms Programming

Pretty YAML is a semi-tolerant and configurable YAML formatter. It is available as a dprint plugin and a library.

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Application Servers

Itsi – high-performance web and application server

July 16, 2026 Steve Emms Web Apps

Itsi is a high-performance web and application server with first-class support for Ruby applications.

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Music

VuIO – cross-platform DLNA/UPnP media server

July 15, 2026 Steve Emms Internet

VuIO is a cross-platform DLNA/UPnP media server written in Rust.

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ChatGPT

River – serverless group chat application

July 15, 2026 Steve Emms Internet

River is a serverless group chat application that operates over Freenet’s global peer-to-peer network.

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Network

Yoda – graphical browser for the Gemini protocol

July 14, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Internet

Written in Rust, Yoda uses GTK 4 and Libadwaita to provide a modern Linux desktop interface.

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Intrusion Detection

Hades – host-based intrusion detection system

July 13, 2026 Steve Emms Security

Hades is a host-based intrusion detection system (HIDS) that uses eBPF and the netlink process connector to monitor activity on Linux systems.

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Photo Metadata

truss – image transformation toolkit

July 12, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics, Web Apps

truss is an image transformation toolkit with a shared Rust core powering a command-line interface, HTTP server, and browser-based.

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Photo Metadata

slimg – fast image optimization tool

July 12, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics, GUI

slimg is a fast image optimization tool. It can convert, compress, resize, crop, and extend images using modern codecs.

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Malva – fast formatter for CSS, SCSS, Sass and Less

July 11, 2026 Steve Emms Programming

Malva is a configurable, smart and fast formatter for CSS, SCSS, Sass and Less.

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Framework

11 Useful Free and Open Source Rust TUI frameworks

July 11, 2026 Steve Emms Programming, Roundup, TUI

The software featured in this roundup helps developers create TUI programs. All the software featured is written in Rust.

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