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Essential Utilities to Boost Producitivity

vmstat – reports virtual memory statistics

June 30, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

vmstat reports information about processes, memory, paging, block IO, traps, disks and cpu activity.

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Chess

zurichess – UCI chess engine

June 29, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Games

zurichess is a chess engine and a chess library. Its main goals are to be a relatively strong chess engine and to enable chess tools writing.

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Chess

ShashChess is a free UCI chess engine

June 29, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Games

ShashChess is a free UCI chess engine derived from Stockfish family chess engines.

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Bomb

terminal-mines is a minesweeper game for terminals

June 28, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Games

terminal-mines is an implementation of Minesweeper with an adventure mode. It is played using the keyboard instead of a mouse.

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Chess

Fruit – chess engine

June 27, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Games

Fruit is a cross-platform UCI chess engine.

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Password manager

SpicyPass is a lightweight password manager

June 26, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, Utilities

SpicyPass is a lightweight password manager that uses state of the art cryptography and minimalist design principles.

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Password manager

pa is a simple password manager

June 25, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

pa is a simple password manager. Encryption support is provided via age. It’s written in portable posix shell.

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Monitoring

lstr – fast, minimalist directory tree viewer

June 23, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

lstr is a fast, minimalist directory tree viewer. Inspired by the command line program tree, with a powerful interactive mode.

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Monitoring

lstree – ls in tree form

June 23, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

lstree is a wrapper script around ls to display a nice tree structure.

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Chess

Demolito is a UCI chess engine

June 21, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Games

Demolito is a UCI chess engine. As such, it is a command line program, which is not designed to be used directly.

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Security

diceware is a passphrase generator

June 19, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Security

diceware is a passphrase generator. It generates passphrases by concatenating words randomly picked from wordlists.

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ADIF Multitool – validate, modify and convert ham radio log files

June 15, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Other

ADIF Multitool is a command-line tool to validate, modify, and convert ham radio log files.

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lule is a bash(y) alternative to pywal

June 15, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

lule is a bash(y) alternative to pywal by mostly using pastel to generate the full 255 colors from an image.

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Coding

Sysprof – profile an application or entire system

June 12, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, Programming

Sysprof is a sampling profiler that uses a kernel module to generate stacktraces which are then interpreted by the userspace program “sysprof”.

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Best Free and Open Source Compact Editors

Kibi is a tiny text editor

June 3, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Documents, TUI

Kibi is a configurable text editor with UTF-8 support, incremental search, syntax highlighting, line numbers and more

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Command Schedulers

systemd-analyse helps uncover performance problems

May 26, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

The systemd init system provides the systemd-analyze tool that can help find performance problems and other important systemd information.

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12 Best Free and Open Source Text-Based Bookmark Managers

May 26, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

We focus on open source text-based bookmark managers. Most of the tools featured in this article let you manage your bookmarks for websites.

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Command Schedulers

systemctl – manage and monitor the systemd system

May 25, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

systemctl is a command-line tool that allows for the management and monitoring of the systemd system and service manager.

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Art

28 Delightful Free and Open Source ASCII Art Tools

May 24, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics, Roundup, Utilities

ASCII art is a graphic design technique that relies primarily on computers for presentation and consists of pictures.

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Backup software

7 Best Free and Open Source BorgBackup Front-Ends

May 23, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, Roundup, System Software

BorgBackup (Borg) is a deduplicating backup program. We recommend the best front-ends for Borg.

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