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lqth – screenshot utility

December 14, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

lqth is a simple but fast screenshot utility inspired by xscreenshot and follows the suckless philosophy. It supports X only (no Wayland support).

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Dire Wolf – AX.25 packet modem/TNC and APRS encoder/decoder

December 14, 2025 Steve Emms Other

Dire Wolf is a software “soundcard” AX.25 packet modem/TNC and APRS encoder/decoder. It can be used stand-alone to observe APRS traffic, and more.

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Book

5 Best Free and Open Source CardDAV Servers

December 14, 2025 Steve Emms Roundup, System Software, Web Apps

CardDAV (“Card Distributed Authoring and Versioning”) is a standardized address book client/server protocol.

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Documentation

mping – simple multicast ping

December 14, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

mping aspires to be an easy to use and script friendly program with support for both IPv4 and IPv6.

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Documentation

Alternatives to popular CLI tools: rm

December 14, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Software

This article spotlights alternative tools to rm, a command that removes files or directories.

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Search

11 Best Free and Open Source Search Engines for Big Data

December 14, 2025 Steve Emms Big Data, Internet, Roundup

Big Data is an all-inclusive term that refers to data sets so large and complex that they need to be processed by specially designed hardware and software tools.

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Database

sling – slings from a data source to a data target

December 14, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Database

Sling offers an easy solution to create and maintain small to medium volume data pipelines using the Extract & Load (EL) approach.

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Search

Vespa – AI search platform

December 14, 2025 Steve Emms Internet

Vespa is an AI Search Platform for developing and operating large-scale applications that combine big data, vector search, machine-learned ranking, and real-time inference.

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Plakar – scalable backup solution

December 14, 2025 Steve Emms System Software, Web Apps

Plakar provides a powerful, and scalable backup solution. Besides file-level backups it captures application data with its full context.

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Coding

6 Best Free and Open Source Clojure Linter Tools

December 14, 2025 Steve Emms Programming, Roundup

This article picks some useful tools to help you fix Clojure code.

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Command Schedulers

7 Best Free and Open Source CLI Command Schedulers

December 14, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Roundup, System Software, Utilities

The software utility cron also known as cron job is a time-based job scheduler in Unix-like computer operating systems. But there are other high quality CLI command schedulers.

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Find Duplicates

Alternatives to popular CLI tools: grep

December 14, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Software

This article spotlights alternative tools to grep, a utility that searches for patterns in each file.

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Search

OpenSearch – enterprise-grade search and observability suite

December 14, 2025 Steve Emms Internet

OpenSearch is a community-driven search and analytics suite that makes it easy to ingest, search, visualize, and analyze data.

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Documentation

Alternatives to popular CLI tools: cat

December 14, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Software, Utilities

cat derives its name from concatenation and provides other nifty options too. This article spotlights alternative tools to cat.

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Coding

5 Best Free and Open Source Python Shells

December 14, 2025 Steve Emms Languages, Programming, Roundup

There are some excellent alternative Python shells that extend on the basic shell. They each offer a good interactive Python experience.

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Git Clients

gitlogue – cinematic Git commit replay tool

December 14, 2025 Steve Emms Programming, TUI

gitlogue is a cinematic Git commit replay tool for the terminal, turning your Git history into a living, animated story.

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WebRTC

Say – terminal‑first voice and video call utility

December 14, 2025 Steve Emms Multimedia, TUI

Say is a terminal‑first voice and video call utility that builds an embedded Yggdrasil node via ygg and speaks directly to other peers over the Ygg overlay network.

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Platform Games

AAAAXY – nonlinear 2D puzzle platformer

December 14, 2025 Steve Emms Games

AAAAXY is a nonlinear 2D puzzle platformer taking place in impossible spaces. Although your general goal is reaching the surprising end of the game, you are encouraged to set your own goals while playing. Exploration will be rewarded, and secrets

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New York

lukaj – interactive diff tool for SVG images

December 14, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

lukaj is an interactive diff tool for SVG images written in Rust.

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aqua – declarative CLI version manager

December 14, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

aqua is a declarative CLI version manager written in Go. It works as a single binary.

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