Boop-GTK is is promoted as a scratchpad designed to help developers work with code snippets.
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espanso – smart and efficient text expander
espanso is a text expander, software that detects when you type a specific keyword and replaces it with something else.
Read moreExcellent Utilities: fd – superior alternative to the venerable find
fd is a utility that searches for files in a directory hierarchy. Here’s our review.
Read moredutree – reclaim precious hard disk space
dutree is a command line tool to analyze disk usage. It’s written in the Rust programming language. It’s free and open source software. How does it compare to other disk usage analyzers?
Read moreExcellent Free Tutorials to Learn Rust
Rust is a systems programming language that runs fast, prevents segmentation faults, and guarantees thread safety. We recommend lots of Rust tutorials.
Read moreExcellent Utilities: exa – replacement for ls
exa is a replacement for the venerable ls command. exa sports more features and arguably better defaults than ls.
Read moreExcellent Utilities: ripgrep – recursively search directories for a regex pattern
ripgrep is a line-oriented search tool that recursively searches your current directory for a regex pattern. It’s free and open source software.
Read moreLinux Candy: Ternimal – animated lifeform in the terminal
Ternimal simulates a lifeform in the terminal using Unicode block symbols. It’s a script written in Rust with no dependencies and consumes few resources.
Read morestarship – elegant cross-shell prompt at your fingertips
starship is an intelligent and non-intrusive prompt for anyone who spends time at a shell. It’s free and open source software. Read our verdict.
Read moreEssential System Tools: hyperfine – command-line benchmarking tool
hyperfine is a command-line benchmarking tool. It’s designed to measure the full execution time of a program. This open source tool is written in Rust.
Read moreExcellent Utilities: McFly – navigate through your shell history
McFly is a tiny utility that replaces the functionality offered by Bash’s ctrl-r with an intelligent search engine.
Read more9 Best Free Books to Learn about Rust
If you had to describe Rust in just three words, they would be fast, safe, and productive. There’s memory safety without garbage collection, concurrency without data races, abstraction without overhead, and stability without stagnation.
I recommend 8 books to get you up to speed with the Rust programming language. There’s introductory texts, books that dig deeper into the language, as well as other texts that will help you migrate from C++ and Ruby to Rust.
Read moreShortwave – GTK3 internet radio software
Shortwave (previously known as Gradio) is open source goodness that lets you find and listen to 20,000 radio stations over the net.
Read moreEssential System Tools: Alacritty – hardware-accelerated terminal emulator
Linux has lots of terminal emulators. What distinguishes Alacritty from the vast majority of terminal emulators? It differentiates itself by offering GPU-acceleration combined with a minimal feature set.
Read moreGNOME Podcasts – podcast client for the GNOME desktop
Podcasts are shows, similar to radio or TV shows, that are produced by professionals or amateurs and made available on the internet to stream and/or download. They are a popular source of entertainment. There’s lots of great podcasts that are Linux-centric, which I surveyed in this review.
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