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EDA

Ringdove is an EDA suite of multiple software components

April 8, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, Scientific

Ringdove is an Electronic Design Automation suite that offers a schematics editor, a PCB editor, and a gerber/excellon viewer.

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plotting-software

Kst is a real-time large dataset viewing and plotting tool

April 8, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, Scientific

Kst is a plotting tool written in C++ that provides both a command-line interface and a graphical user interface.

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Essential Utilities to Boost Producitivity

direnv unclutters your .profile

April 8, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

direnv is an extension for your shell that manages your environment.

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Selection of utilities

quickenv is an unobtrusive environment manager

April 7, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

quickenv is a replacement for direnv. It works with existing .envrcs, and as such is a drop-in replacement.

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Selection of utilities

Shadowenv performs a set of manipulations to the process environment

April 6, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Shadowenv provides a way to perform a set of manipulations to the process environment upon entering a directory in a shell.

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Selection of utilities

asdf is an extendable version manager

April 5, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

asdf is a CLI tool that can manage multiple language runtime versions on a per-project basis.

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Screen Capture

shotman – interactive Wayland screenshots from the command line

April 4, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

shotman captures Wayland screenshots using CLI targets and displays an interactive thumbnail for copying, dismissing or deleting images.

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duple finds and removes duplicate files

April 4, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

duple will iterate through all files and directories that is given and find duplicate files (files are compared on their contents).

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Screen Capture

shotgun is a minimal screenshot utility for X11

April 3, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics, Productivity

shotgun is a minimal screenshot utility for X11 which exports PNG screenshots to file or stdout.

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Annotation tool

Satty is a modern screenshot annotation tool

April 3, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics, GUI

Satty is a screenshot annotation tool inspired by Swappy and Flameshot.

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Time tracking

arttime is an intriguing clock, timer, time manager with text art

April 2, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity, Reviews

arttime is a combination of art, clock, timer, and a time manager all from a single terminal-based application.

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Screen Capture

maim takes screenshots of your desktop

April 2, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics, Productivity

maim (Make Image) is a utility that takes screenshots of your desktop.

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Find

ast-grep performs structural search, lint and rewriting

April 2, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

ast-grep (sg) is a CLI tool for code structural search, lint, and rewriting.

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Music

SACAD: Smart Automatic Cover Art Downloader

April 1, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

SACAD is a command line tool to download album covers without manual intervention, ideal for integration in scripts, audio players, etc.

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Documents

facad is a modern colorful directory listing tool

April 1, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

facad is a modern, colorful directory listing tool for the command line. It’s written in C.

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Backup software

ArchiveKeep keeps your files archived in multiple places

April 1, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, System Software

ArchiveKeep is a utility that keeps your files archived in multiple places, in a reliable and simple way.

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Selection of utilities

svu is a small helper for release scripts and workflows

March 31, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

svu provides utility commands and functions to increase specific portions of the version.

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Find

Alternatives to popular CLI tools: dd

March 31, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Software

This article spotlights alternative tools to dd, a popular utility to convert and copy a file.

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Find

concurrently lets you run multiple commands concurrently

March 31, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

concurrently is similar to the command npm run watch-js & npm run watch-less but better.

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Password Managers

kpcli – interactive command-line interface for KeePass databases

March 30, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

kpcli manages KeePass databases through an interactive terminal, with searches, password generation, editing and key-file support.

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