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Machine Learning

Holloway’s Upscaler – image and video upscaling

August 16, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics, Scientific

A consolidation of AI image/video upscaling product for a working CLI-friendly image and video upscaling program.

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Network Security

15 Best Free and Open Source CLI Data Hashing Tools

August 16, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Roundup, Security

Hashing is the process of passing data through a formula that produces a condensed fixed-value representation, called a hash value.

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System administration

TinyDNS – tiny DNS server

August 16, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

TinyDNS is a tiny DNS server with simple JSON config written in C.

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Streaming Music

cmusfm – Last.fm scrobbler for cmus music player

August 14, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

cmusfm allows to configure regular expression patterns for local files and for shoutcast streaming services.

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Music player

mpris-ctl – control music players

August 12, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

mpris-ctl is a minimalistic command-line interface tool for controlling audio players exposing a MPRIS DBus interface.

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Git Clients

gita – manage multiple git repos

August 12, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

gita is a command-line tool to manage multiple git repos.

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Essential System Utils

psrecord – record the CPU and memory activity of a process

August 11, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

psrecord is a small utility that uses the psutil library to record the CPU and memory activity of a process.

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Selection of utilities

vet – curl sanity checker

August 9, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

vet is a command-line tool that acts as a safety net for the common but risky curl | bash pattern.

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Essential Utilities to Boost Producitivity

cxt – extract and aggregate project context

August 9, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, TUI, Utilities

cxt is a command-line tool that aggregates file and directory contents into your clipboard.

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Monitoring

tree++ – tree command with icons

August 9, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Tree is a recursive directory listing program that produces a depth indented listing of files. tree++ adds icons.

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Documentation

Alternatives to popular CLI tools: cat

August 9, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Software, Utilities

cat derives its name from concatenation and provides other nifty options too. This article spotlights alternative tools to cat.

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Selection of utilities

kat – cat command with syntax highlighting

August 9, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

kat is a cat command with syntax highlighting for a variety of different programming languages including C, C++, Python, JavaScript, and more.

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Music

empress – MPRIS media controls made simple

August 8, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

empress is a simple command-line abstraction over the D-Bus MPRIS specification which allows for querying and controlling media players.

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Redocly CLI – lint OpenAPI

August 8, 2025 Eilidih Parris CLI, Programming

Redocly CLI is an all-in-one OpenAPI utility. It builds, manages, improves, and quality-checks your OpenAPI descriptions

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playerctl – MPRIS media player command-line controller

August 7, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

Playerctl is a command-line utility and library for controlling media players that implement the MPRIS D-Bus Interface Specification.

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Terminal Session Recording

rewindtty – terminal session recorder and replayer

August 7, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

rewindtty is a terminal session recorder and replayer written in C to capture and replay terminal sessions with precise timing.

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isort – Python utility and library to sort imports

August 6, 2025 Eilidih Parris CLI, Programming

isort is a Python utility / library to sort imports alphabetically and automatically separate into sections and by type.

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Log Analyzers

17 Best Free and Open Source Linux Logfile Viewers

August 6, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Roundup, System Software, Utilities

To provide an insight into the quality of software that is available, we have compiled a list of useful Linux logfile viewers.

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CPU

brokefetch – neofetch clone

August 4, 2025 Steve Emms CLI

brokefetch is the only system info tool that doesn’t pretend your life is okay.

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Images

tinifier – image compression tool

August 4, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

tinifier is a CLI tool for compressing images using the TinyPNG API, with parallel processing to speed up the workflow.

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