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stown – manage file system object mapping via symlinks

November 28, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

stown manages file system object mapping via symlinks. It was inspired by Stow, which was found very useful but too unwieldy.

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Cloud

kustomize – manage declarative configuration of Kubernetes

November 27, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

kustomize lets you customize raw, template-free YAML files for multiple purposes, leaving the original YAML untouched and usable as is.

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Yagni – Leiningen plugin for finding dead code

November 27, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

Yagni is a static code analyzer that helps you find unused code in your applications and libraries.

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process

Dploy – tool for creating symbolic links

November 27, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Dploy is a tool for creating symbolic links similarly to Stow. It is provided as a CLI tool and Python 3.6.2+ module.

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XStow – replacement for Stow

November 27, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

XStow is a replacement of Stow. It supports all features of Stow with some extensions.

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SpotBugs – find bugs in Java code

November 27, 2025 Eilidih Parris CLI, Programming

SpotBugs is a program which uses static analysis to look for bugs in Java code. It’s a fork of the abandoned FindBugs.

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lein-bikeshed – Leiningen plugin

November 26, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

lein-bikeshed is a Leiningen plugin designed to tell you your code is bad, and that you should feel bad.

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stow-cm – config manager like stow

November 26, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

stow-cm is a config manager like stow written in the Rust programming language.

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Stow – symlink farm manager

November 26, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Stow is a symlink farm manager which takes distinct packages of software and/or data located in separate directories on the filesystem

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Screen Capture

Command-Line Screen Capture Tools: 8 Free and Open Source Linux Apps

November 26, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics, Roundup

Linux has a good selection of versatile open source screenshot programs. This roundup focuses on command-line tools.

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Screen Capture

HyprCap – capture screenshots and screen recordings on Hyprland

November 25, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

HyprCap is a utility to easily capture screenshots and screen recordings on Hyprland.

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FTP

9 Best Free and Open Source Command-line FTP clients

November 25, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet, Roundup, Utilities

This article provides our pick of the best open source command line file transfer programs.

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clj-kondo – static analyzer and linter for Clojure

November 25, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

Clj-kondo performs static analysis on Clojure, ClojureScript and EDN. It informs you about potential errors while you are typing.

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Programming

archlog – view and track changelogs for Arch Linux packages

November 24, 2025 Steve Emms CLI

archlog is a simple Python CLI tool that fetches upgradable official Arch Linux packages and retrieves changelogs for each.

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kibit – static code analyzer for Clojure

November 24, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

kibit is a static code analyzer for Clojure, ClojureScript, cljx and other Clojure variants.

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eastwood – Clojure lint tool

November 23, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

Eastwood’s main area of focus is spotting bugs (as opposed to, say, helping following coding conventions).

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Selection of utilities

Aeryth – AppImage to Package Converter

November 22, 2025 Steve Emms CLI

Aeryth is a shell script designed to convert .AppImage files into distribution packages (.deb for Debian and .pkg.tar.zst for Arch Linux).

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Network

netcheck – checks network connectivity

November 21, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

netcheck is designed to be run periodically, saving results to files from which netcheck-plot can be used to create plots.

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Game Engines

Prefixer – Proton prefix management tool

November 21, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Games

Prefixer is a tool for managing Steam Proton prefixes, seeking to replace protontricks with a friendlier interface, faster responses and modular approach.

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boxunbox – simple symlinker inspired by stow

November 21, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

boxunbox is a simple symlinker inspired by stow with more control over where each individual folder gets linked.

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