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ziglint – code analysis tool

February 10, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

ziglint is a configurable code analysis tool for Zig codebases.

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Network

NetSonar – network diagnostics tool

February 10, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

NetSonar is a network diagnostics tool for pinging hosts, managing network interfaces, and discovering local devices/services.

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Essential Utilities to Boost Producitivity

ghorg – clone or backup entire repositories

February 10, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

Use ghorg to quickly clone all of an orgs, or users repos into a single directory.

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preset – save and run command presets

February 10, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

preset is a program for managing and running command sequences at once, so you don’t have to manually type your commands.

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Selection of utilities

cmdperf – interactive command performance benchmarking

February 9, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

cmdperf is a terminal tool designed to quickly measure, compare, and understand the performance characteristics of shell commands.

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Selection of utilities

grepai – CLI for semantic code search

February 9, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

grepai is a privacy-first CLI for semantic code search. It uses vector embeddings to understand code meaning.

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Network

webchanges – checks web content

February 8, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

webchanges anonymously checks web content and commands for changes, delivering instant notifications and AI-powered summaries.

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Coding

CuteKit – build system and package manager

February 8, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

CuteKit is a suite of tools and utilities for compiling, cross-compiling, linking, and packaging project written in low-level languages.

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Technology

Rooks – steganographic tool

February 8, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Security

Rook Stego is a steganographic tool that implements some of the most advanced hiding methods.

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Selection of utilities

dekl – declarative package and dotfile management for Arch Linux

February 7, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

dekl allows you to define your system’s packages and configuration in YAML files, making your setup reproducible and version-controllable.

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Bookmark manager

Libro – terminal based book tracking tool

February 7, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Documents, TUI

Libro is a terminal-based tool to track your reading history, with your data stored locally in a SQLite database.

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Chess

Fastchess – manage chess games with engines

February 6, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Games

Fastchess is a command-line tool designed to manage and orchestrate chess games between engines.

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Diff Tools

riff – wrapper around diff

February 6, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Riff is a wrapper around diff that highlights which parts of lines have changed.

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Mastodon

7 Best Free and Open Source Text-Based Mastodon Clients

February 6, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Internet, Roundup, TUI

Mastodon is a free and open source microblogging platform similar to X, but with user privacy and decentralization in mind.

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Database

Goose – database migration tool

February 6, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Database, Documents

Goose is a database migration tool. Both a CLI and a library. Manage your database schema by creating incremental SQL changes or Go functions.

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Screen Capture

grabIT – screenshot and screen recorder script

February 6, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

grabIT is billed as a versatile screenshot, screen recording, and file uploader with OCR support for multiple services.

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Application Launchers

Hamr – desktop launcher

February 4, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Desktop, GUI

Hamr learns from your usage patterns to surface what you need, when you need it. Type a few characters to launch apps, calculate math…

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Screen Capture

SnipText – screen capture OCR tool

February 4, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics, GUI

SnipText is a screen capture OCR tool. Select a screen area, get text in the clipboard.

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dcat – terminal-based 3D model viewer

February 4, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

dcat is a terminal-based 3D model viewer that’s written in the C++ language

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Git Clients

stax – CLI and TUI for stacked Git branches and PRs

February 4, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming, TUI

Stacked branches let you split work into small, reviewable pieces that build on each other (and visualize it as a tree).

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