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Author: Steve Emms

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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wl-color-picker – shell script for Wayland and wlroots sessions

April 21, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics

wl-color-picker is a shell script for Wayland and wlroots sessions to pick a colour directly from the screen and copy the result.

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Static Site Generator

Miyadaiku – static website generator

April 20, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Web Apps

Miyadaiku builds websites from Markdown, reStructuredText and notebook content with Jinja templates, themes and hierarchical metadata.

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hyprpicker – wlroots-compatible Wayland colour picker for Linux

April 20, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

hyprpicker is a wlroots-compatible Wayland colour picker for Linux.

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YouTube

PsTube – graphical YouTube client

April 20, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

PsTube is a graphical YouTube client with ad-free playback, local likes and comments, playlists and video or audio downloading.

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Inventory Management

Netdisco – web-based network management tool

April 20, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, Web Apps

Netdisco discovers network devices, traces MAC and IP addresses to switch ports, maps topology and manages VLAN and PoE settings.

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YouTube

Materialious – alternative YouTube frontend

April 20, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia, Web Apps

Materialious is a privacy-focused YouTube frontend with optional accounts, Invidious integration, subscriptions, SponsorBlock and themes.

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WhatsApp Desktop – unofficial client

April 20, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, Web Apps

WhatsApp Desktop is an unofficial desktop client that wraps the official WhatsApp Web interface in a standalone Electron application.

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Static Site Generator

Genja – simple static website generator

April 20, 2026 Steve Emms Web Apps

Genja is a simple static website generator written in Python for building small websites from Markdown content.

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DNA

ASCIIGenome – terminal genome browser

April 20, 2026 Steve Emms Scientific, TUI

ASCIIGenome displays indexed genomic alignments, variants and annotations directly in a terminal with filtering and snapshots.

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Gem of the Week

OmniGet – download media and other files

April 20, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Internet, Reviews

OmniGet is a desktop application built with Tauri that lets you download media and other files from a broad range of online sources.

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Static Site Generator

incorporeal-cms – static site generator

April 20, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Web Apps

incorporeal-cms converts Markdown page trees into static websites, preserving assets and links with configurable templates.

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Monitoring

fswatch – reports changes to files and directories

April 20, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

fswatch is a cross-platform command-line utility and frontend to libfswatch that reports changes to files and directories as they happen.

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Documentation

Alternatives to popular CLI tools: cat

April 20, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Software, Utilities

cat derives its name from concatenation and provides other nifty options too. This article spotlights alternative tools to cat.

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CAD Software

KLayout – viewer and editor for integrated circuit and mask design

April 20, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

KLayout is a Qt-based layout viewer and editor for integrated circuit and mask design work.

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Foreign Languages

VocabSieve – Anki companion for language learning

April 20, 2026 Steve Emms Education, GUI

VocabSieve is a desktop companion for Anki designed to help language learners build vocabulary through sentence mining.

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Selection of utilities

chmod-cli – generate chmod commands

April 20, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

chmod-cli makes it easier to build chmod commands without having to remember octal values or symbolic permission syntax.

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Inventory Management

TeemIp – IP address management

April 20, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, Web Apps

TeemIp manages IPv4 and IPv6 addressing, DNS domains, network inventory and IP request workflows through a web interface.

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CAD Software

build123d – Python CAD programming library

April 19, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics

build123d is a Python-based parametric modeling framework for 2D and 3D CAD.

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Education

LinguaCafe – helps language learners acquire vocabulary by reading

April 19, 2026 Steve Emms Education, Web Apps

LinguaCafe is a self-hosted web application for language learners that helps them read foreign-language texts.

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