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Monitoring

lstr – fast, minimalist directory tree viewer

June 23, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

lstr is a fast, minimalist directory tree viewer. Inspired by the command line program tree, with a powerful interactive mode.

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Monitoring

lstree – ls in tree form

June 23, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

lstree is a wrapper script around ls to display a nice tree structure.

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Chess

Demolito is a UCI chess engine

June 21, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Games

Demolito is a UCI chess engine. As such, it is a command line program, which is not designed to be used directly.

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Security

diceware is a passphrase generator

June 19, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Security

diceware is a passphrase generator. It generates passphrases by concatenating words randomly picked from wordlists.

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ADIF Multitool – validate, modify and convert ham radio log files

June 15, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Other

ADIF Multitool is a command-line tool to validate, modify, and convert ham radio log files.

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lule is a bash(y) alternative to pywal

June 15, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

lule is a bash(y) alternative to pywal by mostly using pastel to generate the full 255 colors from an image.

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Coding

Sysprof – profile an application or entire system

June 12, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, Programming

Sysprof is a sampling profiler that uses a kernel module to generate stacktraces which are then interpreted by the userspace program “sysprof”.

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Best Free and Open Source Compact Editors

Kibi is a tiny text editor

June 3, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Documents, TUI

Kibi is a configurable text editor with UTF-8 support, incremental search, syntax highlighting, line numbers and more

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Command Schedulers

systemd-analyze – analyze and debug the system manager

May 26, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

systemd-analyze examines systemd boot performance, unit dependencies, security settings and configuration problems from the command line.

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Command Schedulers

systemctl – control the systemd system and service manager

May 25, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

systemctl is the principal command-line utility for inspecting and controlling systemd units, services and the system manager.

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Data Science

suanPan – finite element method (FEM) simulation platform

May 22, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Scientific

suanPan is a finite element method (FEM) simulation platform for applications in fields such as solid mechanics and civil/structural/seismic engineering.

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Milky Way

CRUSH is an astronomical data reduction and imaging tool

May 20, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, Scientific

CRUSH is a free and open source data reduction pipeline and toolkit for specific astronomical imaging arrays.

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Camera Tools

cameractrls – camera controls for Linux

May 19, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics, GUI

cameractrls provides CLI and GTK tools for V4L2 and vendor-specific camera controls, presets, PTZ functions and automatic restore.

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Linux Candy: walrs – fast colorscheme generator

May 16, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics, Reviews, Utilities

walrs is a command-line program that generates a color scheme from the dominant colors in an image.

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Bookmark manager tool

crumbs is a bookmarking system for the command line

May 14, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

crumbs is a command-line utility for the shell, for storing commands under a meaningful name in a hierarchy.

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Bookmark manager

marcador is a minimal bookmark manager

May 12, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

marcador is a minimal bookmark manager with a CLI interface. This project is heavily inspired by buku. It’s written in Rust.

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VersaTiles – process and serve map tiles

May 12, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Scientific

VersaTiles is a Rust toolkit for converting, processing, validating, storing, and serving vector and raster map tile data.

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Bookmark manager tool

book is a simple bookmark manager

May 11, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

book is command-line software written in Go.

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Bookmark manager tool

bookmarkmenu offers bookmark storage using the menu back end

May 9, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

This is a simple script that has a store which you add/remove/list items. There’s also edit functionality.

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Performance

bandwhich is a terminal bandwidth utilization tool

May 7, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

bandwhich is a CLI utility for displaying current network utilization by process, connection and remote IP/hostname.

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