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Music

rescrobbled – music scrobbler daemon

August 20, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

rescrobbled is a music scrobbler daemon. It detects active media players running on D-Bus using MPRIS

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Files

render – command line reader offering better readability of web pages

August 19, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Documents

reader is a lightweight tool offering better readability of web pages on the CLI. It’s written in the Go language.

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OpenAPI Linter – CLI and a Node.js library

August 18, 2025 Eilidih Parris CLI, Programming

OpenAPI Linter is a CLI and a Node.js library to validate OpenAPI specification. It is based on Spectral by Stoplight with OpenAPI rules with additional rules. The goal of Linter is to check whether the spec contains enough information to

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Cherrybomb – audit, validate, run API tests

August 18, 2025 Eilidih Parris CLI, Programming

Cherrybomb helps prevent incorrect code implementation. It works by validating and testing your API using an OpenAPI file.

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cambd – Cambridge dictionary CLI app

August 18, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

cambd is a Cambridge dictionary cli app which can automatically suggests related words when a typo is detected.

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gofmt – formats Go programs

August 17, 2025 Eilidih Parris CLI, Programming

gofmt formats Go source code consistently, can simplify code, rewrite expressions, show diffs and process files, directories or stdin.

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golangci-lint – fast Go linters runner

August 17, 2025 Eilidih Parris CLI, Programming

golangci-lint runs a large collection of Go linters and formatters with caching, parallel execution, autofixes and flexible configuration.

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Programming

godl – Godot version manager

August 16, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, Programming

godl is a version manager for Godot, written in QML/C++ with the Qt Quick libraries.

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Machine Learning

Holloway’s Upscaler – command-line image and video enlargement

August 16, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics, Scientific

Holloway’s Upscaler enlarges images and video with Real-ESRGAN models, FFmpeg integration, format choices and resumable workflows.

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System administration

TinyDNS – tiny DNS server

August 16, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

TinyDNS is a tiny DNS server with simple JSON config written in C.

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Streaming Music

cmusfm – Last.fm scrobbler for cmus music player

August 14, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

cmusfm allows to configure regular expression patterns for local files and for shoutcast streaming services.

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Music player

mpris-ctl – control music players

August 12, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

mpris-ctl is a lightweight command-line utility for controlling MPRIS media players and displaying detailed playback metadata.

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Git Clients

gita – manage multiple Git repositories

August 12, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

gita manages multiple Git repositories from the terminal, showing status across projects and running Git or shell commands in batches.

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Essential System Utils

psrecord – record the CPU and memory activity of a process

August 11, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

psrecord monitors process CPU and memory usage, recording time-series data, CSV logs and plots, with optional child-process tracking.

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Selection of utilities

vet – curl sanity checker

August 9, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

vet is a command-line tool that acts as a safety net for the common but risky curl | bash pattern.

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Essential Utilities to Boost Producitivity

cxt – extract and aggregate project context

August 9, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, TUI, Utilities

cxt is a command-line tool that aggregates file and directory contents into your clipboard.

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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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