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Author: Steve Emms

Console MPD Clients

Zarumet – Rust mpd client

March 19, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia, TUI

Zarumet aims to offers a polished text user interface for browsing and controlling music playback. It’s a console client for MPD.

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Selection of utilities

rgx – terminal regex tester

March 19, 2026 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

rgx is a terminal application for building, testing, and debugging regular expressions.

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Learning with Linux

hashcards – plain-text spaced repetition flashcard system

March 19, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Education, Web Apps

hashcards is a plain-text flashcard system with FSRS scheduling, cloze deletions, multimedia support and a local browser study interface.

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Selection of utilities

t2sz – compresses a file into a seekable zstd

March 19, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

t2sz compresses a file into a seekable zstd, splitting the file into multiple frames.

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m5rcode – modern programming language

March 19, 2026 Steve Emms Programming

m5rcode (pronounced “em-five-er-code”) is a modern programming language combining the best features of Python, C, Java, HolyC, Rust, and Ruby.

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Git Clients

keifu – TUI that visualizes Git commit graphs

March 18, 2026 Steve Emms Programming, TUI

keifu shows a colored commit graph, commit details, and a summary of changed files.

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Bluetooth

btlescan – terminal UI for scanning Bluetooth Low Energy devices

March 18, 2026 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

btlescan is a cross-platform terminal UI for scanning Bluetooth Low Energy devices, inspecting GATT services and characteristics.

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Network

Pinchtab – lightweight browser control system designed for AI agents

March 18, 2026 Steve Emms Programming

Pinchtab is a lightweight browser control system designed for AI agents. Implemented as a small Go binary.

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TAYGA – out-of-kernel stateless NAT64 implementation

March 18, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

TAYGA is a stateless NAT64 implementation designed to provide IPv6 connectivity to IPv4-only hosts and services.

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Selection of utilities

RepoRover – universal Linux package updater

March 18, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, System Software

RepoRover is a graphical Linux system update utility written in Go.

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Documentation

Alternatives to popular CLI tools: file

March 18, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

file determines the type of data contained in a file by examining its contents rather than relying on filename extensions.

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batctl – battery charge threshold manager for Linux laptops

March 18, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, System Software, TUI, Utilities

batctl is a terminal UI and CLI tool that lets you control battery charge thresholds on Linux.

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Web Browsers

Dooble – minimal, scientific, and stable web browser

March 18, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Internet

Dooble is a Qt-based web browser that focuses on stability, privacy-oriented browsing features, and a compact codebase.

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Flashcards

Lapse – cross-platform flashcard app

March 18, 2026 Steve Emms Education, GUI

Lapse uses spaced repetition to help users review and retain information more effectively, and offers a modern interface.

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Accountancy

Bigcapital – accounting and inventory software

March 18, 2026 Steve Emms Financial, Web Apps

Bigcapital is designed to help organise business finances, automate accounting processes, and generate financial statements and reports.

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Bioinformatics

FastQC – quality control tool for high throughput sequence data

March 18, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Scientific

FastQC is a quality control tool for high throughput sequence data.

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Shooter Games

Tower Oops! – tower building game

March 18, 2026 Steve Emms Games

Tower Oops! is a modern GTK4 port of the classic “Crazy Towers”, rewritten in Rust.

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Bioinformatics

minimap2 – versatile sequence alignment program

March 18, 2026 Steve Emms Security

minimap2 is a versatile sequence alignment program for genomic and spliced nucleotide sequences.

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Essential Utilities to Boost Producitivity

Hister – web history management tool

March 18, 2026 Steve Emms Web Apps

Hister is a web history management tool that provides fast, content-based search for visited websites.

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Bioinformatics

BCFtools – variant calling and manipulating files in the Variant Call Format

March 17, 2026 Steve Emms Scientific

BCFtools is a set of utilities for working with variant calls in Variant Call Format (VCF) and its binary counterpart BCF.

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