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Author: Steve Emms

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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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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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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