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Author: Steve Emms

Selection of utilities

Khushu – Muslim app

April 23, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Other

Khushu is a privacy-focused Islamic application for Linux desktops, tablets, and smartphones.

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Encrypted Files

SOPS – editor for encrypted secrets and configuration files

April 23, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Security

SOPS is a command-line secrets editor for YAML, JSON, ENV, INI and binary files using age, PGP and multiple cloud key-management services.

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Selection of utilities

cksfv – SFV checksum utility

April 22, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

cksfv creates and checks SFV checksum manifests using CRC32, with recursive verification, filename matching and batch processing.

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Video-Emulators

Missingno – Game Boy emulator and debugger

April 22, 2026 Steve Emms Emulators, Games, GUI

Missingno is a Game Boy emulator and debugger written in Rust.

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Monitoring

Poltergeist – universal hot-reload and file-watching tool

April 22, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Poltergeist is a universal hot-reload and file-watching tool that automatically rebuilds projects when files change.

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Encryption

enc – command-line encryption tool

April 22, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Security

enc is a command-line encryption tool designed as a modern, approachable alternative to GnuPG.

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Encrypted Files

Sequoia – comprehensive modern OpenPGP implementation

April 22, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Security

Sequoia is a modern OpenPGP implementation written in Rust with command-line tools, libraries, certificate handling and verification.

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Internet Radio

TuneIn CLI – browse and listen to thousands of radio stations

April 22, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia, Reviews, TUI

TuneIn CLI is a Rust-based terminal application for browsing and listening to internet radio stations from the command line.

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Static Site Generator

kew – minimal static site generator

April 22, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Web Apps

kew converts directory trees of Markdown files into static websites with automatic navigation, templates and relative link rewriting.

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Static Site Generator

depp – static Git repository page generator

April 22, 2026 Steve Emms Web Apps

depp generates compact static websites for Git repositories with customizable presentation, README rendering and repository indexes.

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Static Site Generator

Notebrew – static site CMS and blogging platform

April 22, 2026 Steve Emms Web Apps

Notebrew is a self-hosted static site CMS with browser-based editing, themes, media handling, multiple users and integrated hosting.

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Chemistry

Periotable – modern periodic table application

April 22, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Scientific

Periotable presents chemical elements and compounds through a modern periodic table, dedicated reference pages and a desktop interface.

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hzfind – compare Hetzner Server Auction machines

April 21, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, TUI

hzfind is a terminal utility for comparing Hetzner Server Auction machines by value rather than just headline specifications.

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Static Site Generator

Anna – static site generator

April 21, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Web Apps

Anna is a static site generator with Markdown front matter, parallel rendering, live reload, templates, collections and diagrams.

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Video Conversion

Recoder – GTK4 video transcoding application

April 21, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Recoder is a GTK4 video transcoding application for Linux built for GNOME using libadwaita.

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Minisforum MS-R1 Mini Workstation

Minisforum MS-R1 ARM Mini Workstation running Linux: Benchmarks

April 21, 2026 Steve Emms Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

I put the Minisforum MS-R1 through a series of benchmarks and compare its results to a variety of machines.

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Video Conversion

Edconv – user-friendly FFmpeg GUI

April 21, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Edconv is a desktop application that gives FFmpeg a more approachable graphical interface for audio and video work.

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Monitoring

watch – small command-line utility written in C

April 21, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

watch is a small command-line utility written in C that periodically runs a shell command at a user-defined interval.

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Video Conversion

Frame – desktop media converter

April 21, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Frame is a native video, audio and image converter with FFmpeg presets, batch processing, stream selection, filters and previews.

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Wayland Color Picker GTK4 – sample colours

April 21, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

Wayland Color Picker GTK4 is a GTK4 application for Wayland desktops that lets you sample colours from anywhere on the screen.

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