The software featured in this roundup helps developers create TUI programs. All the software featured is written in Rust.
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Linux Candy: asciify – turn images into attractive ASCII art
asciify is a CLI tool that converts images into ASCII art. It’s part of our Linux Candy series.
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Volla Phone Quintus running Volla OS: Introduction to the Series
This series looks at Volla OS, an Android operating system which has been de-googled. All your data is yours.
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Hummingbird – modern music player
Hummingbird is a cross-platform Rust-based music player with basic functionality already implemented. It’s worth checking out!
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Minisforum AI X1 Pro running Linux: BIOS
In this article in the series I’ll show you many of the BIOS options that are available with the Minisforum AI X1 Pro.
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Site Updates: Our Plans
I’m delighted to discuss our updated plans with the Linux community!
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NoxDir – visualize file system usage
NoxDir is a high-performance, cross-platform command-line tool for visualizing and exploring your file system usage.
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VisiGrid – local-first spreadsheet
VisiGrid prioritizes speed, correctness, and keyboard-driven workflows over cloud lock-in and opaque automation.
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colorstorm – TUI to generate color themes for Vim, VSCode, and Sublime
colorstorm is a command line TUI to generate color themes for Vim, VSCode, and Sublime.
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9 Best Free and Open Interactive Whiteboard Software
An interactive whiteboard is an instructional tool consisting of a large interactive display in the form factor of a whiteboard.
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Geist – typeface designed for developers and designers
Geist embodies design principles of simplicity, minimalism, and speed, drawing inspiration from the renowned Swiss design movement.
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8 Best Free and Open Source API Documentation Browsers
Software developers need all the help possible. One useful tool is a documentation browser. In fact, they can sometimes be a life changer.
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Drawy – brainstorming tool
Drawy is a work-in-progress infinite whiteboard tool which aims to be a native-desktop alternative to the web-based Excalidraw.
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7 Useful Free Static Web Servers
This roundup focuses on web servers that are designed for mostly static content.
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par2cmdline – PAR 2.0 compatible file verification and repair tool
par2cmdline is a program for creating and using PAR2 files to detect damage in data files and repair them if necessary.
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vty – terminal interface library
vty is a terminal interface library. It provides a high-level interface for doing terminal I/O.
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Pass-CLI – password and API key manager
Pass-CLI is a fast, secure password and API key manager that stores credentials locally with AES-256-GCM encryption.
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Gopherbook – self-hosted comic library and CBZ/CBT reader
Gopherbook is a lightweight, single-binary, self-hosted web comic reader and library manager written in Go.
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8 Top Free and Open Source Crystal Web Frameworks
A web framework offers the developer a choice about how to solve a specific problem. We explore the best frameworks for Crystal.
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Beads – distributed, git-backed graph issue tracker for AI agents
Beads provides a persistent, structured memory for coding agents. It replaces messy markdown plans with a dependency-aware graph
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6 Best Free and Open Source Web Application Firewalls
A web application firewall (WAF) is a type of application firewall that lets you see and analyze HTTP traffic to and from a web application. We recommend our favourite WAFs.
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oq – terminal-based OpenAPI Spec (OAS) viewer
oq is a terminal-based OpenAPI Spec (OAS) viewer. It’s written in the Go language.
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5 Top Free and Open Source Julia Web Frameworks
A web framework “is a code library that makes a developer’s life easier when building reliable, scalable, and maintainable web applications” by providing reusable code or extensions for common operations.
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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: stow
Stow is a symlink farm manager which takes distinct sets of software and/or data located in separate directories on the filesystem.
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