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Lacy – cd alternative

January 21, 2026 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

Lacy is a cd alternative that makes navigating much more efficient.

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CSS

Ratatui – create terminal user interfaces

January 21, 2026 Steve Emms Programming, TUI

Ratatui is a Rust crate for cooking up TUIs. It provides a simple and flexible way to create text-based user interfaces.

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Bitcoin

5 Best Free and Open Source Tools to Track Cryptocurrencies

January 21, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Financial, Roundup

We recommend tools that let you monitor cryptocurrencies.

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JSON Tools

jiq – interactive JSON query tool

January 21, 2026 Steve Emms Programming

jiq is an interactive JSON query tool with real-time output.

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Static Site Generator

Zensical – modern static site generator

January 21, 2026 Steve Emms Web Apps

Zensical is a modern static site generator designed to simplify building and maintaining project documentation.

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Flashcards

repeater – CLI flashcard program

January 21, 2026 Steve Emms Education, TUI

repeater is a command-line flashcard program that uses spaced repetition to boost your memory retention.

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Bitcoin

cryptofetch – cryptocurrency tool

January 21, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Financial, Reviews

cryptofetch is a terminal-based tool in the style of neofetch that displays cryptocurrency prices and statistics.

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Git Clients

gohome – Git standup and activity reporting CLI

January 21, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

gohome automates your daily status reporting by recursively scanning your workspace to find git repositories.

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Compositing Window Managers

20 Best Free and Open Source Tiling Wayland Compositors

January 21, 2026 Steve Emms Desktop, Roundup, Utilities

This article focuses on tiling Wayland compositors. We only feature free and open source software in this roundup.

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Application Launchers

Teabag – manage AppImage files

January 21, 2026 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

Teabag is a Terminal User Interface (TUI) application built with Bubble Tea to manage AppImage files.

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postcss-bem-linter – BEM linter for PostCSS

January 21, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

BEM-style describes CSS that follows a more-or-less strict set of conventions determining what selectors can be used.

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SQL

sqlfmt – SQL formatter

January 21, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Database, Documents

sqlfmt formats your dbt SQL files. It is similar in nature to black, gofmt, and rustfmt (but for SQL).

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Selection of utilities

Lemurs – TUI display/login manager

January 20, 2026 Steve Emms System Software, TUI

Lemurs is a Terminal User Interface (TUI) Display/Login Managers written in Rust that works on most Linux and BSD distributions.

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Selection of utilities

beekeeper-qt – deduplicate redundant data

January 20, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

beekeeper-qt lets you free up disk space by removing redundant block-level data, both inside files and across multiple files.

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Compositing Window Managers

Volare – Wayland compositor

January 20, 2026 Steve Emms Desktop

Volare is a tabbed, tiling Wayland compositor written in the C language

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Network

Realm – simple relay server

January 20, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

Realm is a simple, high performance relay server.

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Documentation

Alternatives to popular CLI tools: traceroute

January 20, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Software, Utilities

traceroute tracks the route packets taken from an IP network on their way to a given host. We recommend the best alternatives.

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Data Tools

13 Best Free and Open Source Linux Data Recovery Tools

January 20, 2026 Steve Emms Roundup, System Software

The software featured in this article are high quality standalone Linux tools which help you to recover data in a range of circumstances.

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Documents

17 Best Free and Open Source Replacements for ls

January 20, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Roundup, Utilities

When invoked without any arguments, ls lists the files in the current working directory. We recommend some great replacements.

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System administration

RevLix – data recovery tool

January 20, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, System Software

RevLix is a data recovery tool developed to recover deleted files on Linux systems. This program uses the PhotoRec infrastructure.

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