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mbake – Makefile formatter and linter

November 1, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

mbake is a Makefile formatter and linter that offers smart formatting: Tabs for recipes, consistent spacing, line continuation cleanup.

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Reference Managers

coBib – console-based bibliography manager

November 1, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, TUI, Utilities

coBib manages bibliographies from the terminal with a searchable TUI, Git-friendly YAML database, importers, citation tools and plugins.

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Reference Managers

bibiman – terminal interface for BibLaTeX bibliographies

October 31, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Education, TUI

Manage BibLaTeX references with bibiman’s terminal interface, fuzzy search, PDF links, notes, DOI lookup and citation-key formatting.

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Reference Managers

bibman – CLI and TUI bibliography manager

October 30, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Education, GUI

bibman manages bibliography entries and attached documents as individual files, with a terminal interface and Pandoc-based format support.

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sshtool – simple interactive SSH session manager

October 30, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

sshtool is a simple interactive SSH session manager with encrypted configuration storage using GPG.

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Selection of utilities

mtr085 – enhanced terminal network route analyser

October 29, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

mtr085 extends mtr with Unicode latency histograms, internationalised domain names, translations and additional network address information.

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Reference Managers

Xapers – personal journal article indexing and management

October 29, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Education, TUI

Xapers indexes academic PDFs and bibliographic metadata for full-text searching, tagging, document retrieval, and BibTeX export.

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luha – simple file checksum tool

October 27, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

luha calculates a basic additive file checksum from one input file and displays the decimal result, without built-in checksum verification.

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Essential Utilities to Boost Producitivity

lunas – syncing cli tool

October 27, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

lunas is a syncing cli tool that can handle more than two directories locally and remotely.

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Documents

lv – directory listing and counting tool

October 27, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

iv is a directory listing and counting tool written in C++.

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Mangal – CLI manga downloader

October 26, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Other

Mangal is billed as an advanced CLI manga downloader.

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Git Clients

ggc – interactive Git CLI and workflow manager

October 24, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Programming, TUI

ggc offers concise Git subcommands and a searchable interactive command picker, with reusable workflows, aliases and configurable keys.

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Clipboard

Qlipmon – clipboard history manager with rofi integration

October 23, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Qlipmon manages X11 clipboard history with a native rofi plugin, D-Bus notifications, optional persistent storage and custom actions.

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sshmate – simplify interactions with SSH servers

October 23, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

sshmate is a tool to simplify interactions with SSH servers, offering an easy way to connect to servers by assigning a name to an address.

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Files

Jimmy – convert your notes to Markdown

October 20, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Documents, TUI

Jimmy is a tool to convert your notes from different formats to Markdown. It has both a CLI and TUI.

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fortbite – command-line calculator

October 19, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity

fortbite is a command-line calculator written in Fortran that handles arbitrary precision arithmetic, complex numbers, and matrices.

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System administration

dyndnsc – dynamic dns update client

October 17, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

dyndnsc is a command line client for sending updates to dynamic dns (ddns, dyndns) services.

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Rate My OpenAPI – improve the quality of your OpenAPI specifications

October 16, 2025 Eilidih Parris CLI, Programming

Rate My OpenAPI is a suite of tools designed to help software developers who are using OpenAPI to design and implement their APIs.

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Comic Books

mandown – comic downloader

October 15, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Other

Mandown is a comic downloader and a CBZ, EPUB, MOBI, and/or PDF converter.

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kotatsu-dl – cli manga downloader

October 15, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Other

kotatsu-dl is an easy-to-use cross-platform manga downloader with a lot of manga sources supported.

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