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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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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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autopep8 – automatically format Python code to follow PEP 8

August 7, 2025 Eilidih Parris CLI, Programming

autopep8 corrects Python code to follow PEP 8 conventions, with selectable fixes, configurable formatting and automated checks.

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isort – Python utility and library to sort imports

August 6, 2025 Eilidih Parris CLI, Programming

isort organises Python imports into configurable groups, sorts modules consistently, and checks import layout across projects.

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Black – opinionated Python code formatter

August 5, 2025 Eilidih Parris CLI, Programming

Black applies a consistent style to Python code, supports selective formatting and notebooks, and reduces unnecessary code review changes.

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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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