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Author: Steve Emms

Benchmarking

iperf3 – active measurement of network performance on IP networks

April 19, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

iperf3 is a command-line utility for active measurement of network performance on IP networks.

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Network

rdapper – RDAP and WHOIS domain registration library

April 19, 2026 Steve Emms Internet

rdapper normalizes domain registration data with RDAP-first lookups, WHOIS fallback, registrar details, DNSSEC and availability helpers.

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Benchmarking

UnixBench – original BYTE UNIX benchmark suite

April 18, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

UnixBench is a classic system benchmark for Unix-like systems, combining CPU, process, file, shell, system call, and graphics tests.

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Image of Files

Dongle – move around deep directory trees

April 18, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Dongle is a terminal utility that helps you move around deep directory trees without typing long cd paths by hand.

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Online 3D Viewer – browser-based application for inspecting 3D models

April 18, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, Web Apps

Online 3D Viewer displays and converts 3D and CAD models in a browser, with wide format support, sharing links and custom display options.

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Benchmarking

glmark2 – graphics benchmark

April 18, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

glmark2 is a graphics benchmark designed to measure the performance of OpenGL 2.0 and OpenGL ES 2.0 implementations

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Castle Model Viewer – interactive viewer for 3D and 2D assets

April 18, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

Castle Model Viewer opens 3D scenes and 2D assets, with animation playback, scene navigation, screenshots and model conversion tools.

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Turkey

GraphHopper – routing engine

April 18, 2026 Steve Emms Scientific

GraphHopper is a routing engine for maps and navigation, offering custom profiles, map matching, turn instructions and isochrones.

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unifly – management toolkit for Ubiquiti UniFi network controllers

April 18, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, TUI

unifly is a terminal-based management toolkit for Ubiquiti UniFi network controllers.

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Turkey

openrouteservice – routing and spatial analysis API

April 18, 2026 Steve Emms Scientific

openrouteservice provides routing, isochrones, distance matrices, snapping and geospatial APIs based on OpenStreetMap road networks.

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Static Site Generator

Bonobo – minimalist static site generator

April 18, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Web Apps

Bonobo creates static pages from Markdown and JSON metadata, with page-specific titles, descriptions, stylesheets and RSS feeds.

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Turkey

OpenTripPlanner – multimodal trip planning engine

April 18, 2026 Steve Emms Scientific

OpenTripPlanner powers multimodal journey planning with transit schedules, live disruptions, walking, cycling and GraphQL APIs.

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Static Site Generator

bloggy – lightweight static blog generator

April 18, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Web Apps

bloggy generates lightweight static blogs with dated posts, hidden pages, assets, social metadata and previous and next links.

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OpenRDAP – command line client for the Registration Data Access Protocol

April 17, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

OpenRDAP is a command line client for the Registration Data Access Protocol (RDAP) written in Go.

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Static Site Generator

swege – lightweight static website generator

April 17, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Web Apps

swege turns Markdown files into static websites with incremental updates, configurable output directories and flexible page titles.

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Data Science

arTui – keep up with recent arXiv submissions

April 17, 2026 Steve Emms Scientific, TUI

arTui is a terminal user interface for keeping up with recent arXiv submissions from within the console.

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Apple Numbers

Sheets – terminal-based spreadsheet application

April 17, 2026 Steve Emms Office, TUI

Sheets is a terminal-based spreadsheet application for working with CSV data from the command line.

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Selection of utilities

IChingDiviner – desktop I-Ching divination application

April 17, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Other

IChingDiviner is a desktop I-Ching divination application that brings the traditional Chinese oracle to Linux with a modern interface.

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Proprietary App of the Week

PangoTerm – modern cross-platform SSH client

April 17, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, Proprietary, Reviews, Utilities

PangoTerm is a modern SSH client for developers and system administrators that runs on Linux, macOS, and Windows.

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Image of Files

icd – makes changing directories quicker

April 17, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

icd is a shell utility that makes changing directories quicker and more convenient.

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