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Author: Steve Emms

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MBDyn – multibody dynamics analysis

February 23, 2026 Steve Emms Scientific

MBDyn is a general purpose Multibody Dynamics analysis software.

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CNC Software

OpenBuilds CONTROL – interface for Grbl CNC machines

February 23, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Scientific

OpenBuilds CONTROL is a desktop interface for Grbl CNC machines with jogging, probing, calibration, surfacing, macros and job control.

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Security

cariddi – scanning tool

February 23, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Security

Take a list of domains, crawl urls and scan for endpoints, secrets, api keys, file extensions, tokens and more.

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Juliaup – Julia version manager

February 22, 2026 Steve Emms Programming

Juliaup is a cross-platform installer for the Julia programming language.

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SQL

GizmoSQL – high-performance SQL server

February 22, 2026 Steve Emms Database

GizmoSQL is a powerful open-source SQL database engine and server powered by DuckDB and Apache Arrow Flight SQL.

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Selection of utilities

swaptop – real-time swap usage monitor

February 22, 2026 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

swaptop is a real-time swap usage monitor for Linux and Windows systems with a TUI interface.

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Game Engines

Jump ‘n Bump – family fun

February 22, 2026 Steve Emms Games

Jump ‘n Bump is a game for the whole family. You play cute fluffy little bunnies and hop on each other’s heads.

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Noise

qmassa – display GPU usage stats

February 22, 2026 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

qmassa is a Rust terminal-based tool for displaying GPUs usage stats on Linux.

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HTTP

Grab – asynchronous file downloader

February 22, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

Grab is an asynchronous file downloader. It combines the simplicity of wget with the power of multi-threaded concurrency.

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Mixer

AnalogVUMeter – classic analog stereo VU meter

February 22, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

AnalogVUMeter is a cross-platform desktop application that visually replicates a classic analog stereo VU meter (needle-style)

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CNC Software

Luban – 3-in-1 software tailor-made for Snapmaker machines

February 22, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Scientific

Luban is an easy-to-use 3-in-1 software tailor-made for Snapmaker machines.

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Zap – play sound effects

February 22, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Play all your favorite sound effects! This soundboard makes your livestreams and videocasts more entertaining.

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Git Clients

mergiraf – git merge driver

February 21, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

Mergiraf can solve a wide range of Git merge conflicts. That’s because it’s aware of the trees in your files!

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Anti-Malware Tools

YARA-X – re-incarnation of YARA

February 21, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Security

YARA-X is a re-incarnation of YARA, a pattern matching tool designed with malware researchers in mind.

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Clipboard

cclip – clipboard manager for Wayland

February 21, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

cclip is a clipboard manager for Wayland that consists of two tools

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BablerEdit – desktop translation editor

February 21, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Programming

BablerEdit is a modern, open-source desktop translation editor for managing multi-language localization files.

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Game Tools

Open Gamepad UI – game launcher and overlay

February 21, 2026 Steve Emms Games, GUI

Open Gamepad UI is a game launcher and overlay written using the Godot Game Engine 4 designed with a gamepad native experience in mind.

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CDROM

Rip Rip Hooray! – specialized audio CD-ripper

February 21, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

Rip Rip Hooray! is a specialized audio CD-ripper optimized for track recovery.

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Security

Kanha – web-app pentesting suite

February 21, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Security

With kanha you can do Fuzzing, Reverse dns lookup, common http response, subdomain takeover detection and many more.

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Laser cutting

CNCjs – web-based CNC controller interface

February 21, 2026 Steve Emms Scientific, Web Apps

CNCjs is a web-based CNC control interface with multi-controller support, 3D toolpath visualisation, probing, macros and remote access.

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