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Flying robot

aim – CLI download/upload tool with resume

March 15, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

aim is a command line download/upload tool with resume. It’s written in the Rust language.

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Essential Utilities to Boost Producitivity

wordplay – anagram finder

March 15, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

wordplay is a command-line anagram finder. It takes an input string and searches a supplied word list to generate valid anagrams.

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Email

msgvault – archive a lifetime of email and chat

March 14, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

msgvault lets you archive a lifetime of email. Analytics and search in milliseconds, entirely offline. Powered by DuckDB.

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Packet Sender – send and receive TCP, UDP, and SSL packets

March 13, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, Internet

Packet Sender is a network utility for sending and receiving custom network packets across various protocols.

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Music player

hrmp – command line music player for Linux

March 13, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, Multimedia, TUI

hrmp is a command line music player for Linux (ALSA) based systems. hrmp focuses on high-resolution loss-less files (44.1kHz+/16bit+).

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Maestro – end-to-end testing for Mobile and Web apps

March 13, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

Maestro is an open-source framework that makes UI and end-to-end testing for Android, iOS, and web apps simple and fast.

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blogtato – RSS and Atom feed reader

March 13, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

blogtato is a minimalist command line RSS and Atom feed reader designed for users who prefer terminal-based workflows.

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oxicop – fast Ruby linter

March 13, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

oxicop is billed as an extremely fast Ruby linter, written in Rust.oxicop reads .rubocop.yml from your project root automatically.

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Selection of utilities

shpool – service that enables session persistence

March 13, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

shpool is a service that enables session persistence by allowing the creation of named shell sessions owned by shpool.

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PSSH – parallel versions of OpenSSH and related tools

March 12, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

PSSH provides parallel versions of OpenSSH and related tools, including pssh, pscp, prsync, pnuke and pslurp.

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Image of Files

peek-cli – CLI tool that opens a file or folder in your browser

March 12, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

peek-cli is a tiny Rust command-line tool that lets you instantly preview any file directly in your default web browser.

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HTTP

Axel – command-line download accelerator

March 12, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

axel is a lightweight command-line download accelerator that speeds up file transfers by opening multiple connections to a server.

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HTTP

Alternatives to popular CLI tools: Wget

March 12, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Software, Utilities

We spotlight alternatives tools to Wget, a non-interactive network downloader.

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Download Manager

gosh-dl-cli – download manager for the terminal

March 12, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Internet, TUI

gosh-dl-cli is a fast, modern download manager CLI with HTTP/HTTPS multi-connection acceleration.

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3D Animation

tortuise – terminal-native 3D Gaussian splatting viewer

March 12, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics, TUI

Tortuise is a terminal-based 3D Gaussian splatting viewer that renders complex 3D scenes directly inside a text terminal.

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Selection of utilities

Archium – wrapper for AUR helpers

March 12, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Archium is a CLI tool for managing packages on Arch Linux. It provides a simple and intuitive interface for common package management tasks

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Security

Bao – verified streaming tool

March 11, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Security

Bao is an implementation of BLAKE3 verified streaming, as described in Section 6.4 of the BLAKE3 spec.

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DNA

Cryfa – encryption tool for genomic data

March 11, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Scientific, Security

Cryfa is an encryption tool specifically designed for genomic data.

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Graphics card image

gptop – cross-platform GPU monitor

March 11, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, System Software, TUI

gptop is a terminal-based GPU monitoring utility designed to provide real-time insights into GPU activity in a text user interface

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RAW Tools

DNGLab – command-line RAW processing and DNG conversion utility

March 11, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

DNGLab is a command-line camera RAW utility for DNG conversion, metadata inspection, extraction, RAW processing and DNG creation.

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