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Author: Steve Emms

Git Clients

hk – Git hooks manager and project linting tool

October 13, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

hk runs Git hooks, linters and formatters in parallel, coordinating file access, protecting staged changes and reusing checks in CI.

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Raspberry Pi 5 Desktop Mini PC: Music Player

October 13, 2025 Steve Emms Blog, GUI, Hardware, Mini PC, Multimedia, Reviews, TUI

Let’s play some music on the Raspberry Pi 5. It’s a very capable music player.

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Machine Learning

OWLEN – terminal User Interface LLM client for Ollama

October 13, 2025 Steve Emms Scientific, TUI

OWLEN is a Rust-powered, terminal-first interface for interacting with local large language models.

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MangaSharp – CLI manga downloader and reader

October 13, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Other

MangaSharp is a CLI that supports downloading manga and other comics from a variety of sites.

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Monitor System

dgop – system monitoring tool with CLI and REST API

October 12, 2025 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

dgop is a system monitoring tool with CLI and REST API that can be used standalone, or as a companion for DankMaterialShell.

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Typesetting Tools

Hayagriva – bibliography management and citation formatting

October 12, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Education

Hayagriva manages bibliographic records in YAML and BibTeX, formats citations with CSL styles, and filters references by metadata.

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System administration

In-a-dyn – small and simple Dynamic DNS, DDNS, client

October 12, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

In-a-dyn is a small and simple Dynamic DNS, DDNS, client with HTTPS support.

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Pomodorolm – simple time tracker

October 12, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

Pomodorolm is a simple, good looking and configurable pomodoro tracker with tray icon. It’s written in Elm and Rust.

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Git Clients

pre-commit – framework for managing multi-language Git hooks

October 12, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

pre-commit manages Git hooks across languages, installing isolated environments to run formatters, linters and repository checks.

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Git Clients

Lefthook – fast and flexible Git hooks manager

October 11, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

Lefthook manages Git hooks across projects, with parallel commands, file filtering, flexible configuration and reusable local overrides.

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Manga

ahoviewer – image viewer, manga reader, and booru browser

October 11, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Other

ahoviewer is a GTK image viewer, manga reader, and booru browser with archive support, thumbnails, slideshows, and tag search.

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System administration

dnsupdate – modern and flexible dynamic DNS client

October 11, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

dnsupdate is a dynamic DNS client with IPv6 support, YAML configuration, multiple providers and address-change detection to limit updates.

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Compression

ouch – terminal compression and archive management utility

October 11, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

ouch simplifies terminal archiving with automatic format detection, compression, extraction, archive listings and accessibility features.

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Selection of utilities

ntfy – simple HTTP-based pub-sub notification service

October 11, 2025 Steve Emms Internet

With ntfy you can send notifications to your phone or desktop via scripts from any computer

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Game Tools

KHangMan – based on the well-known hangman game

October 10, 2025 Steve Emms Games

KHangMan is a game based on the well-known hangman game. It is aimed at children aged six and over.

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System administration

GoDNS – dynamic DNS client with multi-provider support

October 10, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

GoDNS keeps dynamic DNS records up to date with multiple providers, a web management panel, IPv4/IPv6 support and change notifications.

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Git Clients

husky – Git hooks made easy

October 10, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

Husky installs Git hooks for JavaScript projects, using shell scripts to run commit checks, linters and tests across supported Git clients.

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Manga

manga-tui – terminal-based manga reader and downloader

October 10, 2025 Steve Emms Other, TUI

manga-tui is a terminal manga reader and downloader with image rendering, multiple providers, AniList tracking, search, and export formats.

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Git Clients

Overcommit – configurable Git hooks manager

October 9, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

Overcommit manages Git hooks with Ruby configuration, built-in code checks, parallel execution and safeguards for custom scripts.

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Database

GreptimeDB – cloud-native database

October 9, 2025 Steve Emms Database, Documents

GreptimeDB is a cloud-native database purpose-built for the unified collection and analysis of observability data (metrics, logs, and traces).

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