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Monitoring

tree++ – tree command with icons

August 9, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Tree is a recursive directory listing program that produces a depth indented listing of files. tree++ adds icons.

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Selection of utilities

kat – cat command with syntax highlighting

August 9, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

kat is a cat command with syntax highlighting for a variety of different programming languages including C, C++, Python, JavaScript, and more.

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Music

empress – MPRIS media controls made simple

August 8, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

empress is a simple command-line abstraction over the D-Bus MPRIS specification which allows for querying and controlling media players.

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Redocly CLI – lint OpenAPI

August 8, 2025 Eilidih Parris CLI, Programming

Redocly CLI is an all-in-one OpenAPI utility. It builds, manages, improves, and quality-checks your OpenAPI descriptions

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vacuum – OpenAPI, AsyncAPI and JSON Schema linter

August 7, 2025 Eilidih Parris CLI, Programming

vacuum is a fast OpenAPI linter for Linux with Spectral rulesets, JSON Schema and AsyncAPI checks, reports, and an interactive dashboard.

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playerctl – MPRIS media player command-line controller

August 7, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

playerctl is a command-line utility and library for controlling MPRIS media players, querying metadata, and tracking active players.

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Terminal Session Recording

rewindtty – terminal session recorder and replayer

August 7, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

rewindtty is a terminal session recorder and replayer written in C to capture and replay terminal sessions with precise timing.

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isort – Python utility and library to sort imports

August 6, 2025 Eilidih Parris CLI, Programming

isort is a Python utility / library to sort imports alphabetically and automatically separate into sections and by type.

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CPU

brokefetch – neofetch clone

August 4, 2025 Steve Emms CLI

brokefetch is the only system info tool that doesn’t pretend your life is okay.

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Images

tinifier – image compression tool

August 4, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

tinifier is a CLI tool for compressing images using the TinyPNG API, with parallel processing to speed up the workflow.

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Coding

mypy – static type checker for Python

August 2, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

Mypy adds gradual static typing to Python projects, with generics, strict checks, incremental analysis and an extensible plugin system.

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Endlessh

sshp – parallel SSH executor

August 2, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

sshp manages multiple ssh processes and handles coalescing the output to the terminal.

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Coding

Prospector – unified Python source code analysis

August 1, 2025 Eilidih Parris CLI, Programming

Prospector runs Python linters to identify errors, style violations and complexity problems, with configurable profiles and reports.

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Bandit – find security issues in Python code

July 31, 2025 Eilidih Parris CLI, Programming

Bandit scans Python source code for common security issues using AST analysis, severity ratings and configurable checks for CI workflows.

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Security

PurrCrypt – file encryption wrapped in cat and dog sounds

July 30, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Security

PurrCrypt is a Rust command-line encryption tool that combines secp256k1 public-key cryptography with cat and dog themed text encoding.

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Coding

Pylint – comprehensive static code analyser for Python

July 29, 2025 Eilidih Parris CLI, Programming

Pylint analyses Python code for errors, code smells and coding conventions. Explore its checks, configuration, plugin system and reports.

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Pyflakes – checks Python source files for errors

July 27, 2025 Eilidih Parris CLI, Programming

Pyflakes analyzes programs and detects various errors. It works by parsing the source file, not importing it

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Network

cgmnlm – colorful Gemini line mode client

July 26, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet, TUI

cgmnlm is a colorful Gemini line mode client which includes a CLI utility (gmni) and a line-mode browser (cgmnlm).

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Flake8 – extensible Python linting framework

July 26, 2025 Eilidih Parris CLI, Programming

Flake8 combines Pyflakes, pycodestyle and McCabe checks in one Python linter, with a rich plugin ecosystem and configurable diagnostics.

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ERB Lint – linter for ERB and HTML templates

July 24, 2025 Eilidih Parris CLI, Programming

ERB Lint checks ERB and HTML templates using built-in or custom linters, with configurable rules, and RuboCop integration.

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