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Author: Steve Emms

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zrok – secure internet sharing platform

February 18, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

zrok lets you securely share web services, files, and network resources — whether they’re across the internet or your private network.

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Files

Hazelnut – automated file organizer

February 18, 2026 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

Hazelnut is a terminal-based automated file organizer inspired by Hazel.

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Images

rsimg – lightweight terminal image viewer

February 18, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, TUI

rsimg renders JPEG and PNG images using Unicode and truecolour output, automatically fitting pictures to the terminal window.

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Typing

Couik – terminal-based typing test

February 18, 2026 Steve Emms Education, TUI

Couik is a terminal-based typing test designed for speed, aesthetics, and simplicity. Built with Bubble Tea.

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Image of Files

filebyte – list files and directories

February 17, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

filebyte is a CLI tool to list files and directories with intelligent size formatting, advanced filtering, and comprehensive file analysis.

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picocom – minimal dumb-terminal emulation program

February 17, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

picocom is a minimal dumb-terminal emulation program. It is, in principle, very much like minicom, only it’s “pico” instead of “mini”.

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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 Go Discord terminal client with server messaging, image previews, configurable keybindings, themes and voice support.

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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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Fizzy – extensible Zig editor with pixel art tools

February 17, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

Fizzy is an extensible Zig-based editor featuring a pixel-art plugin, sprite organisation, animation previews and texture-atlas packing.

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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 – keyboard-driven file manager with indexed search

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

HardBore combines a fast Rust-powered file manager with keyboard navigation, indexed search, file previews and picker integration.

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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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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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