The weekend is here which makes it a perfect time to try a new tool, tweak a setup, or spin up a small lab and see what breaks in a good way.
New in Showcase
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Thus guy scraped the entire r/unixporn and made it filterable by distro, WM, and colorscheme shared by @hydn
A browsable gallery of 4,000+ rices at dotfiles.lol with filters for distro, window manager, and color scheme that link back to originals and dotfiles, great for weekend theming inspiration. -
CLIAMP — Terminal Music Player shared by @hydn
A keyboard-driven music player that runs in your terminal with a clean TUI, ideal if you prefer to keep playback inside tmux or a minimal workflow. -
I Built Gamma Linux to Give Old PCs Another Life
by @taki_at_gamma_linux
A lightweight distro focused on reviving older hardware with 32-bit and low-resource editions, Calamares installer, edition-specific ZRAM tuning, and a minimal base so you can breathe life into a shelved laptop this weekend. -
Built a script to auto-flag newly-registered lookalike domains before they hit your inbox (WhoisFreaks API) by @Furqan_Ashraf
A Python tool that combines domain age from the WhoisFreaks JSON API with spelling-distance checks against a watchlist to flag likely typosquats before they land in your mail flow. -
Built a library to auto-flag logins that imply impossible travel speed (open source, Node/TypeScript) by @Furqan_Ashraf
A zero-dependency Node/TypeScript library that stores last-login location and time, computes haversine distance on the next login, and flags impossible travel speeds with a pluggable storage interface and MIT license.
Active & Updated
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Kubernetes Homelab — author built a small Go helper that lists Velero backups, supports multi-select, and batch deletes to make pruning snapshots less tedious.
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Web thinker app — the GitHub repository link is now posted so you can clone the tiny FLTK mind mapper and track changes directly.
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DISTRO FIGHTER: WARS: Closed BETA, first keys for this private room — added a public changelog that reflects community suggestions and fixes plus a new stats page for WARS.
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iMessage/SMS over Bluetooth to Linux. No proxy or cloud! — a user reported that messages sent from the phone are not syncing back to the desktop app, prompting follow-on discussion.
Desktops, Rices & Setups
- @hydn shared their setup — Kali XFCE base with i3 and bundled dotfiles for a dark, lean hybrid i3-on-XFCE workflow.
Share your own project, update, or weekend rice in Showcase or the desktop tags so we can feature it before next Saturday’s update.
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