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VHS – write terminal GIFs as code

January 7, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

vhs lets you write terminal GIFs as code for integration testing and demoing your CLI tools.

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Data Science

PsychoPy – create experiments in behavioural science

January 7, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, Scientific

PsychoPy is an open-source package for creating experiments in behavioural science.

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Files

iris – config-driven file organizer

January 6, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

iris helps you sort and organize your messy folders automatically using defined rules. It’s written in Rust.

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Find Duplicates

trxsh – trash manager

January 6, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

trxsh is a simple and efficient command-line trash manager written in Go.

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Musical instruments

idntag – identify and tag audio files

January 6, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

Idntag is a command-line tool that identifies artist and title of specified audio files and updates their ID3-tag meta-data

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DNA

PLINK – whole genome association analysis toolset

January 5, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Scientific

PLINK is a whole genome association analysis toolset. Perform a range of basic, large-scale analyses in a computationally efficient manner.

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Task Manager

RazTodo – CLI task manager

January 5, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity

RazTodo is a lightweight, cross-platform CLI task manager powered by SQLite, offering fast, privacy-first todo management.

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Diff Tools

oyo – step-through diff viewer

January 5, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

oyo extends traditional diffs with an optional step-through mode.

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Jump – quick and fuzzy directory jumper

January 4, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Jump tracks the directories you visit and lets you jump to the right one with just a few fuzzy-typed characters.

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Alaska

simagef – find similar images

January 4, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

simagef finds similar images. It takes a list of image paths and returns either groups or pairs of images that are similar.

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Audio Editors

unflac – audio image and cue sheet splitting

January 3, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

unflac is a command line tool for fast frame accurate audio image and cue sheet splitting. You need Go and ffmpeg installed.

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Application Launchers

MRunner – keyboard-first application runner

January 3, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

MRunner is a fast, keyboard-driven application runner designed for Linux users who prefer speed, simplicity, and minimalism.

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Task Manager

chop – CLI todo manager

January 3, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity

chop is a stream filter for todo lists. Like sed or sort, but for todos.

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SQL

sqlit – lazygit of SQL databases

January 3, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Database, Documents, TUI

sqlit supports all major databases: SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite, MariaDB, FirebirdSQL, Oracle, DuckDB, CockroachDB, and more.

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Coding

ktlint – Kotlin linter with built-in formatter

January 3, 2026 Eilidih Parris CLI, Programming

ktlint is a Kotlin linter in spirit of feross/standard (JavaScript) and gofmt (Go).

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Essential Utilities to Boost Producitivity

SoS – data collection tool

January 2, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

SoS is an extensible, portable, support data collection tool primarily aimed at Linux distributions and other UNIX-like operating systems.

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cpx – CLI for C++ that unifies the fragmented C++ ecosystem

January 2, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

cpx provides a cohesive, Cargo-like experience for managing projects, dependencies, and builds, regardless of your underlying build system.

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Git Clients

Garden – command runner and multi-repo Git configuration tool

January 2, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

Garden helps you create development workflows over collections of self-contained, loosely-coupled and inter-dependent Git worktrees.

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Circuit board

Metetch – system information display utility

January 2, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

Metetch is a fast system information tool with a minimal aesthetic inspired by KDE Plasma and Wayland.

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FTP Client

FTPGrab – grah files from FTP or SFTP servers

January 1, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

FTPGrab is a CLI application written in Go and delivered as a single executable (and a Docker image) to grab your files from a remote FTP or SFTP server to your NAS, server or computer. With Go, this can be

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