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Speech

ostt – Open Speech-to-Text

December 4, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

ostt is an interactive terminal-based audio recording and speech-to-text transcription tool

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Monitoring

Alternatives to popular CLI tools: tree

December 4, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Software, Utilities

This article spotlights alternative tools to tree, a utility that lists the contents of directories in a tree-like format.

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NullAway – eliminate NPEs in Java code

December 4, 2025 Eilidih Parris CLI, Programming

NullAway is a tool that offers fast annotation-based null checking for Java.

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process

Tuckr – replacement for Stow

December 4, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Tuckr is a dotfile manager inspired by Stow and Git. Tuckr aims to make dotfile management less painful.

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Coding

PMD – extensible cross-language static code analyzer

December 3, 2025 Eilidih Parris CLI, Programming

PMD is an extensible multilanguage static code analyzer. It finds common programming flaws like unused variables, empty catch blocks

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Monitor System

24 Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to the Top Utility

December 3, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Roundup, Utilities

top is a small, venerable utility that offers a dynamic real-time view of a running system. We identify alternatives to top that offer more control in managing processes on a running system.

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Utility

8 Best Free and Open Source Console Based Network ‘top’ Tools

December 3, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet, Roundup, System Software

Out of the myriad of utilities that are available for Linux, top is a troubleshooting tool that often comes up in conversation. We recommend the best network ‘top’ tools.

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Monitoring

treex – fast, and customizable CLI directory viewer

December 3, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Treex (Tree Explorer) is a lightweight and modern command-line utility that lets you explore your file system visually.

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Monitor System

sot – system observation tool

December 3, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, TUI, Utilities

sot is a Command-line System Observation Tool in the spirit of top. It’s free and open source software written in Python.

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Selection of utilities

InstantCLI – consolidating lots of instantOS stuff into a single CLI

December 2, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

InstantCLI is a powerful, Rust-based command-line tool for managing dotfiles, game saves, system diagnostics, and instantOS configurations.

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CodeContexter – simple codebase serializer for LLM Context Windows

December 2, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

CodeContexter is a safety-first CLI tool that aggregates your entire codebase into a single, structured file (Markdown, JSON, or XML).

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Machine Learning in Linux

Crush – terminal-based AI assistant

December 2, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Scientific

Crush is a powerful terminal-based AI assistant that helps with software development tasks.

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Tinct – extracts color palettes from images

December 2, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

Tinct is a modern, extensible CLI tool that extracts color palettes from images and generates configuration files.

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Terminal Session Recording

t-rec – fast terminal recorder

December 2, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

t-rec is a blazingly fast terminal recorder that generates animated GIF images for the web.

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Chat

18 Top Free and Open Source Console Based IRC Clients

December 2, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet, Roundup

Internet Relay Chat (IRC) is a form of real-time Internet text messaging (chat) or synchronous conferencing. We recommend the finest console-based IRC clients.

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Files

Alternatives to popular CLI tools: rename

December 2, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Software

This article spotlights alternative tools to rename which renames the specified files by replacing the first occurrence of expression in their name by replacement.

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process

yadm – yet another dotfiles manager

December 2, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

yadm is like having a version of Git, that only operates on your dotfiles. If you know how to use Git, you already know how to use yadm.

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cljstyle – tool for formatting Clojure code

December 2, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

cljstyle is a tool for formatting Clojure code. The cljstyle tool supports several different commands for checking source files.

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process

Rustow – modern Stow implementation

December 1, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Rustow is Stow rewritten in Rust. While writing Rustow, Stow only used as a starting idea not as an objective.

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RSS Feeds

liveboat – static page generator for Newsboat feeds

December 1, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

Liveboat is a static page generator which turns Newsboat RSS reader feed data into beautiful static websites.

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