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Author: Steve Emms

Selection of utilities

up – write Linux pipes

February 17, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

up (Ultimate Plumber) is a tool for writing Linux pipes in a terminal-based UI interactively, with instant live preview of command results.

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Gaming Chat

Discordo – feature-rich terminal Discord client

February 17, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, TUI

Discordo is a lightweight, secure, and feature-rich Discord terminal client. Heavily work-in-progress, expect breaking changes.

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Video-Emulators

StarPSX – PlayStation 1 emulator

February 17, 2026 Steve Emms Emulators, Games, GUI

StarPSX is a PlayStation 1 emulator written in Rust. It features a native cross-platform GUI (eframe/egui) with a built-in debugger.

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Invoices

Spent – minimalist personal finance tracker

February 17, 2026 Steve Emms Financial, TUI

Spent is a minimalist personal finance tracker for the Linux desktop with cross-platform support.

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Pixi – pixel art editor and animation editor

February 17, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

Pixi is an cross-platform open-source pixel art editor and animation editor written in Zig.

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Essential Utilities to Boost Producitivity

lancher – local project-template manager

February 17, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

lancher lets you store, manage, and replicate project templates from your filesystem or git repositories.

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Static Site Generator

luasmith – flexible static site generator

February 17, 2026 Steve Emms Web Apps

luasmith is a small, simple, and flexible static site generator that is similar in design to Metalsmith, but much smaller

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Image of Files

HardBore – file manager using web technologies

February 17, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity, Web Apps

HardBore is a file manager that’s in a very early stage of development. Sub-2ms cold start, native OS integration, full keyboard navigation.

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critique – review git diffs

February 16, 2026 Steve Emms Programming, TUI

critique is a terminal UI for reviewing git diffs with syntax highlighting, split view, and word-level diff.

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Selection of utilities

fil – UNIX file command

February 16, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

fil is a Unix file command written in Go.

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Screen Capture

wayscrollshot – scrolling screenshot tool for Wayland

February 16, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Desktop, GUI

wayscrollshot is a scrolling screenshot tool for Wayland that captures and stitches images in real-time as you scroll.

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Omnicom – graphical interface for serial communication

February 16, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Omnicom is a modern and elegant graphical interface for serial communication via picocom.

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S3

7 Useful Free and Open Source S3 File Systems and Tools

February 16, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, Roundup

This roundup focuses on software that turns S3 into a convenient file system. We also include a few useful S3 utilities.

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ComChan – minimal serial monitor

February 16, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Comchan (short for “Communication Channel”) is a blazingly fast, minimal, and beginner-friendly serial monitor.

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Mastodon

tooi – text-based user interface for Mastodon, Pleroma and friends

February 16, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, TUI

tooi is a text-based user interface for Mastodon, Pleroma and friends. The name is a portmanteau of toot and TUI.

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Development

3 Easy Ways to Access R from a Python Program

February 16, 2026 Steve Emms Programming, Roundup

This roundup picks the finest software which lets you access R from within a Python program.

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Files

csview – csv viewer

February 16, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, TUI

csview is a high performance csv viewer with cjk/emoji support.

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Notes

Hugvi – code note-taking desktop app

February 16, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

Hugvi is a modern, desktop-only note-taking app built with Tauri and React, designed for developers who value simplicity, privacy, and speed.

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Selection of utilities

Ember – minimal AUR helper

February 15, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Ember is a minimal AUR helper written in Ruby. It allows you to easily install, update, search, and remove AUR packages

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Password manager

Keybox – GUI password manager

February 15, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Keybox is a minimal, encrypted, local password manager written in GDScript.

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