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Author: Steve Emms

Coding

MCP Probe – MCP protocol debugger and interactive client

March 2, 2026 Steve Emms Programming, TUI

MCP Probe is a powerful Terminal User Interface (TUI) for debugging, testing, and interacting with Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers.

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Task Manager

WHPH – productivity app

March 2, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

WHPH is billed as a comprehensive productivity app designed to help you manage tasks, develop new habits, and optimize your time.

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Essential Utilities to Boost Producitivity

fre – track your most-used directories and files

March 2, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

fre is a CLI tool for tracking your most-used directories and files.

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Mastodon

Perch – terminal social client for Mastodon and Bluesky

March 2, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, TUI

Perch is billed as a beautiful terminal social client for Mastodon and Bluesky.

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Chuwi CoreBook Air Plus

Chuwi CoreBook Air Plus running Linux: BIOS

March 2, 2026 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Laptops, Reviews

This is a new series looking at the Chuwi CoreBook Air Plus running Linux. I take a look at the laptop’s BIOS.

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Task Manager

Mindwtr – Getting Things Done (GTD) productivity system

March 2, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

Mindwtr (Mind Like Water) is a complete Getting Things Done (GTD) productivity system for desktop and mobile.

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Network

Alternatives to popular CLI tools: ping

March 2, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Software, Utilities

This article spotlights alternative tools to ping. All software featured here is free and open source goodness.

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Satellite Tool

TLEscope – satellite visualization tool

March 2, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Scientific

​TLEscope is a satellite visualization tool designed to transform Two-Line Element (TLE) sets into intuitive, interactive data.

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Documentation

ring – ICMP ping utility written in Rust

March 2, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

ring is a Rust implementation of the familiar ping utility, providing command-line connectivity checks and network response measurements.

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Wi-Fi Internet

nmsurf – minimal NetworkManager frontend

March 2, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Internet

nmsurf provides a simple interface to manage networks using NetworkManager, with support for launcher-based menus such as wofi.

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Essential Utilities to Boost Producitivity

zerobrew – fast Homebrew-compatible package manager

March 2, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

zerobrew is a fast Homebrew-compatible package manager.

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Selection of utilities

yamldiff – diff between two YAML files

March 2, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

yamldiff is a CLI tool to diff two YAML/JSON files. Supports multi-document YAML files (documents separated by —).

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Linux Candy

TheaTTYr – terminal theater for playing VT100 art and animations

March 1, 2026 Steve Emms TUI

TheaTTYr is a terminal theater for playing VT100 art and animations. It’s written in the Rust language.

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Monitor System

ecscope – monitor AWS ECS resources from the terminal

March 1, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, TUI, Utilities

ecscope lets you monitor AWS ECS resources from the terminal. It provides a TUI which shows services, tasks and containers in a single view.

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Essential Utilities to Boost Producitivity

Cursus – stores your history and makes it searchable

March 1, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Cursus writes your commands into an sqlite database.

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Security

ZGrab – application-layer network scanner

March 1, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Security

ZGrab is a fast, modular application-layer network scanner designed for completing large Internet-wide surveys.

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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft

OneDriveGUI – simple Linux GUI for OneDrive

March 1, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Internet

OneDriveGUI is a simple GUI for OneDrive Linux client with multi-account support.

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Linux software

Best Free and Open Source Software: February 2026 Updates

March 1, 2026 Steve Emms Software

February 2026 updates to the largest compilation of recommended free and open source software available for Linux.

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XMPP

Chisel – fast TCP/UDP tunnel

March 1, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

Chisel is a fast TCP/UDP tunnel, transported over HTTP, secured via SSH. Single executable including both client and server.

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ssm – terminal SSH manager with cloud discovery

March 1, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Internet, TUI

ssm combines searchable SSH hosts, cloud discovery, batch commands, SFTP file transfers and Mosh support in a terminal manager.

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