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Generate memes

memegen generates memes from the command line

April 13, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Other

memegen is a POSIX script to generate memes from the command line. It’s written in Shell and published under the GPL.

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Password Managers

Teller is a multi provider secret management tool

April 13, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

With Teller, never leave your terminal to use secrets while developing, testing, and building your apps.

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Backup

Crestic is a configurable restic wrapper

April 12, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

Crestic is a slim configuration wrapper for Restic, an awesome backup tool.

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Screen Capture

slop queries for a selection from the user and prints the region to stdout

April 12, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

slop (Select Operation) is an application that queries for a selection from the user and prints the region to stdout.

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Screen Capture

grim – screenshot utility for Wayland

April 11, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

grim is a command-line utility to take screenshots of Wayland desktops. It currently needs support for the screencopy protocol to work.

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Password Managers

Bitwarden CLI – access and manage your vault

April 11, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

The Bitwarden command-line interface (CLI) is a powerful, fully-featured tool for accessing and managing your vault.

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Data Science

Quarto is a scientific and technical publishing system

April 11, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Scientific

Quarto is a scientific and technical publishing system built on Pandoc.

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Best Free and Open Source Python Data Analysis

Datasette is a tool for exploring and publishing data

April 11, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Scientific

Datasette is a tool for exploring and publishing data. It helps people take data of any shape, analyze and explore it, and publish it

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Linux Candy: Meme is a fun tool to create memes

April 10, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Other, Reviews

Meme is a command line utility for creating image macro style memes. It’s free and open source software.

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Essential Utilities to Boost Producitivity

mise manages installations of programming language runtimes

April 8, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

mise is a tool that manages installations of programming language runtimes and other tools for local development.

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EDA

Ringdove is an EDA suite of multiple software components

April 8, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, Scientific

Ringdove is an Electronic Design Automation suite that offers a schematics editor, a PCB editor, and a gerber/excellon viewer.

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plotting-software

Kst is a real-time large dataset viewing and plotting tool

April 8, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, Scientific

Kst is a plotting tool written in C++ that provides both a command-line interface and a graphical user interface.

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Essential Utilities to Boost Producitivity

direnv unclutters your .profile

April 8, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

direnv is an extension for your shell that manages your environment.

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Selection of utilities

quickenv is an unobtrusive environment manager

April 7, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

quickenv is a replacement for direnv. It works with existing .envrcs, and as such is a drop-in replacement.

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Selection of utilities

Shadowenv performs a set of manipulations to the process environment

April 6, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Shadowenv provides a way to perform a set of manipulations to the process environment upon entering a directory in a shell.

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Internet Radio

12 Best Free and Open Source Terminal-Based Internet Radio Apps

April 6, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet, Multimedia, Roundup

This article recommends our favourite terminal-based internet radio apps. Free and open source software only.

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Selection of utilities

asdf is an extendable version manager

April 5, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

asdf is a CLI tool that can manage multiple language runtime versions on a per-project basis.

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Screen Capture

shotman is a screenshot GUI for Wayland

April 4, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

shotman is billed as uncompromising screenshot GUI for Wayland compositors. It is designed for interactive usage.

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Find Duplicates

16 Best Free and Open Source CLI Tools to Find and Delete Duplicate Files

April 4, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Roundup, Utilities

This roundup focuses on free and open source command-line tools that help you find and remove duplicate files.

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duple finds and removes duplicate files

April 4, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

duple will iterate through all files and directories that is given and find duplicate files (files are compared on their contents).

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