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Author: Steve Emms

Application Launchers

Stryde – application launcher

December 23, 2025 Steve Emms Desktop

Stryde is an application launcher that’s in an early stage of development.

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Selection of utilities

ck – semantic code search

December 23, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, TUI, Utilities

ck (seek) finds code by meaning, not just keywords. It’s grep that understands what you’re looking for

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Prog8 – structured programming language

December 23, 2025 Steve Emms Programming

Prog8 is a structured programming language for the 8-bit 6502/6510/65c02 microprocessor from the late 1970’s and 1980’s

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Screen Capture

termframe – terminal output SVG screenshot tool

December 23, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

This tool is a non-interactive terminal emulator that executes a single command, renders its output in an internal virtual session, and exports a screenshot as an SVG file.

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Flash OS

buf – flash ISOs to create bootable USB drives

December 23, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

buf is a command-line utility for flashing ISOs to create bootable USB drives.

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Cloud

9 Best Free and Open Source IDEs for Kubernetes

December 23, 2025 Steve Emms Internet, Roundup

Kubernetes is a powerful open-source platform designed to streamline the deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications.

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Essential Utilities to Boost Producitivity

demongrep – fast, local semantic code search

December 23, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Search your codebase using natural language queries like “where do we handle authentication?” — all running locally with no API calls.

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Austin TUI – Top-like Interface for Austin

December 23, 2025 Steve Emms Programming, TUI

Austin TUI is a top-like text-based user interface for Austin, the frame stack sampler for CPython.

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Web Browsers

Websitino – lightweight static file server

December 23, 2025 Steve Emms Web Apps

Websitino is a lightweight static file server. It’s designed for testing static websites and serving files with minimal setup.

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Passive OS Fingerprinting

Fingwit – configure fingerprint authentication

December 23, 2025 Steve Emms Utilities

Fingwit is used to configure fingerprint authentication. Fingwit relies on Fprintd.

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Selection of utilities

DankMaterialShell – desktop shell

December 23, 2025 Steve Emms Desktop

DankMaterialShell is a complete desktop shell for niri, Hyprland, MangoWC, Sway, labwc, and other Wayland compositors.

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Selection of utilities

hyprdrover – lightweight session manager for the Hyprland compositor

December 23, 2025 Steve Emms Desktop, Utilities

hyprdrover allows users to snapshot their current window layout (workspaces, positions, and sizes) and restore it later.

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ascii-chat – video chat in your terminal

December 23, 2025 Steve Emms Multimedia, TUI

ascii-chat is a client-server application that operates over TCP/IP with color and audio and crypto and compression and multiple clients.

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Command Schedulers

Cronboard – terminal-based dashboard for managing cron jobs

December 22, 2025 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

Cronboard is a terminal application that allows you to manage and schedule cronjobs on local and remote servers.

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Selection of utilities

dotbins – manages CLI tool binaries in your dotfiles repository

December 22, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

dotbins uniquely integrates tool-specific shell configurations (aliases, completions, etc.) directly in your dotfiles workflow.

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Machine Learning in Linux

GPTScript – build AI assistants that interact with your systems

December 22, 2025 Steve Emms Scientific

GPTScript is a framework that allows Large Language Models (LLMs) to operate and interact with various systems.

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Machine Learning in Linux

Pipelex – declarative language for composable Al workflows

December 22, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Scientific

Pipelex is an open-source language that enables agents to build and run repeatable AI workflows.

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Coding

6 Best Free and Open Source Java Linter Tools

December 22, 2025 Steve Emms Programming, Roundup

This article picks some useful tools to help you fix Java code.

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Images of shells by the sea

hsh – better shell

December 22, 2025 Steve Emms Utilities

hsh is a slightly different take on your shell. It’s closer to a user agent than you standard POSIX shell.

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Development Tools

13 Best Free and Open Source Python Web Frameworks

December 22, 2025 Steve Emms Programming, Roundup

A framework “is a code library that makes a developer’s life easier when building reliable, scalable, and maintainable web applications” by providing reusable code or extensions for common operations.

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