software
a collection of software that I like and/or want written down!!! yay!!!
games
- geoguess.games - FOSS, selfhostable verison of geoguessr
- ddrace network - some kind of timed platformer. I’ve never played this, but it seems to have a cult following online. I think it’s cool to see
- xonotic - a FOSS arena shooter, and my favorite one. yes, I think it’s better than quake 3 arena. fight me
- srb2kart - absolutely no-contest the best kart racer out there. infinite fun if you get the right friends
arts & design
- moebius - modern ansi/ascii art creator
- tidal cycles - live coding music with tidal cycles
- armorpaint - open-source alternative for substance painter
- npainter - fast and simple digital painting software (WIP)
- normal toolkit - an aseprite extension for normal maps
- ucupaint - a blender addon to manage texture layers for the eevee and cycles renderers
- bonzomatic - shader programming tool
stuff for the internet
- pale moon - based on a fork of old firefox gecko engine, but it’s developed so much into half its own thing at this point
- servo - an independent browser engine + browser; still quite experimental
- ladybird - another independent browser
- chawan - a TUI http/sftp/gopher/gemini browser with CSS, inline image, and javascript support
- rssguard - I haven’t actually used this yet… but I should! it looks like a modern, updated version of the rss reader I am currently using, quiterss
- aerc - the tui email client that I use, which I really like using
- meli email client - interesting tui email client project, haven’t gone too far into it but it seems neater in the ux department than aerc right now
- claws mail - my former mail client, that I still think is really good. unfortunately only supports the MH mailbox format
- watch-party a selfhostable watch party thingy
performance/compression
- auto-cpufreq - cpu frequency helper, supposedly better than tlp
- scx - alternative linux CPU schedulers
- bc_crunch dependency-free lossless compressor for BC/DXT textures
libraries
- libwm - a small library for x window manipulation
- genode operating system framework - a really interesting OS framework project
- RE# - high-performance regex library supporting many operations usually delegated elsewhere in other regex software
desktop stuff
- trinity desktop environment - a desktop environment that started as a fork of KDE3 and QT3, but has developed into its own thing
- elkowar’s wacky widgets - a desktop-independent widget system
- gogh - terminal color schemes
scripting
- namecheap ddns shell script
- ijq - interactive jq filtering tui program
programming languages
- uiua - a tacit, stack-based array language
- koka - a programming language with algebraic effects
- ATS - a proof-based language that transpiles to C
- unision language - some functional language I bookmarked but forgot why. homepage has that almost-too-clean-looking stink, but nonetheless is interesting
- moonscript - a coffeescript-esque language that compiles to lua
misc
- free-bandcamp-downloader - download free/nyp albums from bandcamp
- syncplay.pl - a program to synchronize playback across mpv/vlc/etc, for watchparties without reliance on a website
- kernelSU android root
- 123elf - a native port of lotus 1-2-3 to linux (spreadsheet TUI software, is pretty cool!)
- frood, an alpine initramfs
- acoustic keyboard eavesdropping
- binxelview - visual binary data explorer
- imhex - a hex editor for reverse engineers
- webcamize - use almost any camera as a webcam
- czkawka - duplicate file finder