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Essential Utilities to Boost Producitivity

Cursus – stores your history and makes it searchable

March 1, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Cursus writes your commands into an sqlite database.

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Security

ZGrab – application-layer network scanner

March 1, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Security

ZGrab is a fast, modular application-layer network scanner designed for completing large Internet-wide surveys.

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XMPP

Chisel – fast TCP/UDP tunnel

March 1, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

Chisel is a fast TCP/UDP tunnel, transported over HTTP, secured via SSH. Single executable including both client and server.

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ssm – terminal SSH manager with cloud discovery

March 1, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Internet, TUI

ssm combines searchable SSH hosts, cloud discovery, batch commands, SFTP file transfers and Mosh support in a terminal manager.

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outside – multi-purpose weather client

March 1, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Scientific

outside is a multi-purpose weather client for your terminal.

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rainy – neofetch-like, minimalistic, and customizable weather-fetching tool

February 28, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Scientific

rainy is a neofetch-like, minimalistic, and customizable weather-fetching tool.

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Artistic Style – source code indenter, formatter, and beautifier

February 28, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

Artistic Style is a source code indenter, formatter, and beautifier for the C, C++, C++/CLI, Objective‑C, C# and Java programming languages.

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Git Clients

Froggit – minimalist terminal Git client

February 28, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming, TUI

Froggit is a lightweight terminal Git client with interactive file staging, commit creation, branch navigation and remote operations.

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Wales

stormy – neofetch-like weather CLI

February 27, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Scientific

stormy is a minimal, customizable, and neofetch-like weather CLI inspired by rainy.

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Search

dsearch – filesystem search service

February 27, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity

dsearch is a native file system search tool with configurable indexes and a CLI + REST API for searching files with various parameters.

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Encrypted Files

nacrypt – file encryption program

February 27, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Security

Nacrypt is designed to be safe by design, using secure defaults for all cryptographic operations.

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Noorfetch – minimalist system fetch

February 27, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

Noorfetch is a minimalistic and fast summary of information about your computer, written in Rust.

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Files

MARKTerm – render Markdown in a terminal

February 25, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Documents

Markterm is a library and program to render Markdown to a terminal. It’s inspired by Glow and implemented using Markd.

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Hypervisors

RVVM – RISC-V virtual machine

February 25, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

RVVM is a virtual machine / emulator for RISC-V guests, which emphasizes on performance, security, lean code and portability.

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File Managers

ffsend – securely share files from the command line

February 25, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

ffsend lets you easily and securely share files and directories from the command line.

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Best Free and Open Source Navigation Tools

fzf – command-line fuzzy finder

February 25, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity, Utilities

fzf is a command-line fuzzy finder with interactive previews, shell completion, custom key bindings and powerful filtering workflows.

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FLI – simplifies AWS VPC Flow Logs analysis

February 24, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

FLI is a powerful command-line tool that simplifies AWS VPC Flow Logs analysis with intuitive commands, smart filtering, and more.

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tmuzika – Terminal music player for Linux

February 24, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia, Reviews, TUI

tmuzika aims to offer quick and simple music playback directly in the terminal, with full keyboard control.

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Essential Utilities to Boost Producitivity

bfree – human-friendly view of Linux memory and swap

February 24, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

bfree is a human-friendly view of Linux memory and swap. Inspired by tools like btop, bfree gives you memory and swap stats.

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SST – build full-stack apps

February 24, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

SST is a framework that makes it easy to build modern full-stack applications on your own infrastructure.

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