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Git Clients

husky – Git hooks made easy

October 10, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

Husky improves your commits and more. Just 2 kB with no dependencies.

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Git Clients

overcommit – manage and configure Git hooks

October 9, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

overcommit is a tool to manage and configure Git hooks. It supports a wide variety of hooks that can be used across multiple repositories.

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Network

wakeonlan – Perl script

October 8, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

wakeonlan is a script sends ‘magic packets’ to wake-on-lan enabled ethernet adapters, in order to switch on the called PC.

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Git Clients

simple-git-hooks – tool to manage git hooks

October 8, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

simple-git-hooks is a simple git hooks manager for small projects.

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System administration

dness – dynamic DNS client

October 7, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

dness is a dynamic DNS client which updates the WAN IP address on the DNS server.

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dave – simple WebDAV server

October 6, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Web Apps

dave (Distributed Authoring and Versioning made easy) is a simple WebDAV server.

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System administration

wig – simple and lightweight DNS client

October 4, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

wig is a simple and lightweight DNS client written in the C language.

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System administration

ddclient – update dynamic DNS entries

October 3, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

ddclient is a Perl client used to update dynamic DNS entries for accounts on many dynamic DNS services. It uses curl for internet access.

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Speech

hns – privacy-focused speech-to-text CLI utility

October 3, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia, Reviews, Scientific

hns records your voice, transcribes it locally using faster-whisper, and copies the transcription to your clipboard.

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System administration

awl – DNS lookup tool

October 2, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

awl is a command-line DNS lookup tool that supports DNS queries over UDP, TCP, TLS, HTTPS, DNSCrypt, and QUIC.

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Password Managers

MUTN – self-hosted, SSH-synchronized password and note manager

September 29, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

MUTN is a simple, self-hosted, SSH-synchronized password and note manager based on libmutton. It is the successor to sshyp.

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Selection of utilities

autogit – automatically build, update or install Pacman applications

September 29, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Autogit is a Bash tool to automatically build, update or install Pacman applications from PKGBUILD’s

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cwal – generates dynamic color schemes from images

September 27, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

cwal extracts dominant colors from your chosen image and applies them to your terminal, applications, and other system components.

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TCPreen – TCP network re-engineering tool

September 25, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

TCPreen is a tool to monitor and analyze data transmitted between clients and servers through connection-oriented streams data.

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JADX – Dex to Java decompiler

September 24, 2025 Eilidih Parris CLI, GUI, Programming

JADX is command line and GUI tools for producing Java source code from Android Dex and Apk files.

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Software

Paru – feature packed AUR helper

September 22, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Paru is a standard Pacman wrapping AUR helper with lots of features and minimal interaction.

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Documentation

Alternatives to popular CLI tools: hexdump

September 20, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Software, Utilities

We spotlight alternative tools to hexdump, a utility that displays file contents in hexadecimal, octal, or ascii.

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Documentation

Alternatives to popular CLI tools: dig

September 20, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Software, Utilities

This article spotlights alternative tools to dig. This is a DNS lookup utility.

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Diff Tools

objdiff – local diffing tool for decompilation project

September 20, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, Utilities

objdiff is a local diffing tool for decompilation projects. There is also a GUI available.

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Archive Manager

Simple Archiver – alternative to tar

September 19, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Simple Archiver is an alternative to tar. Despite its name, this open source tool has a fairly wide range of features.

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