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Author: Steve Emms

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 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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Gaming Chat

Oxicord – TUI Discord client

February 15, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, TUI

Oxicord is a high-performance, memory-safe Discord TUI client written in Rust. It is a spiritual successor to Discordo

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Monitoring

Alternatives to popular CLI tools: tree

February 15, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Software, Utilities

This article spotlights alternative tools to tree, a utility that lists the contents of directories in a tree-like format.

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Monitoring

struct – smarter tree command

February 15, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

struct is a smarter tree command built in Rust, focused on presenting clean, meaningful project structure.

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Data Science

2 Easy Ways to Access Python from R

February 15, 2026 Steve Emms Programming, Roundup, Scientific

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

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Documentation

Alternatives to popular CLI tools: cat

February 15, 2026 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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Files

batdoc – cat for Office documents and PDFs

February 15, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Documents

batdoc dumps .doc, .docx, .xls, .xlsx, .pptx, and .pdf files to your terminal as markdown.

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Coding

Codon – extensible Python compiler

February 15, 2026 Steve Emms Programming

Codon is a high-performance Python implementation that compiles to native machine code without any runtime overhead.

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Text Editor

sled – simple text editor

February 15, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, TUI

sled is a simple text editor with a terminal UI.

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Bookmark manager tool

Betula – self-hosted personal link collection manager

February 15, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, Web Apps

Betula is a single-user self-hosted federated bookmark manager with Fediverse support and archives.

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