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Folder navigation

SD – dynamic directory navigation utility

September 18, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

SD is a shell directory navigation utility that ranks visited locations by frequency and recency and supports cycling through matching paths.

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Encrypted Files

transcrypt – transparent encryption for Git repositories

September 18, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Security

transcrypt provides transparent encryption for selected files in Git repositories using Git filters and OpenSSL while preserving normal workflows.

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Folder navigation

Zsh-z – fast directory navigation for Zsh

September 18, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Zsh-z is a pure Zsh directory navigation tool that learns frequently and recently visited locations and jumps to them with short queries.

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Security

UAC – Unix-like artefact collector for incident response

September 18, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Security

UAC automates forensic artefact collection from Linux and other Unix-like systems with portable, profile-driven incident response workflows.

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Syft – generate Software Bills of Materials

September 17, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Security

Syft generates Software Bills of Materials from container images, filesystems and archives, with support for SPDX, CycloneDX and attestations.

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Security

Dissect – digital forensics and incident response framework

September 17, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Security

Dissect is a Python digital forensics and incident response framework for analysing forensic artefacts across disk, file system and OS formats.

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File Managers

8 Best Free and Open Source Terminal-Based File Sharing Tools

September 17, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Internet, Roundup, TUI

We are always on the look out for easy, simple and secure ways to transfer files and folders. Try these terminal-based tools.

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slang – SystemVerilog compiler and language services

September 17, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

slang is a fast SystemVerilog compiler and analysis tool offering parsing, elaboration, linting, diagnostics, AST access and Python bindings.

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Icarus Verilog – Verilog compiler and simulation system

September 17, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

Icarus Verilog is a compiler implementation for the Verilog hardware description language

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Shell prompt

ZPico – tiny package manager for Zsh

September 16, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

ZPico is a tiny Zsh package manager supporting GitHub, GitLab, Codeberg, Framagit, local repositories, branch selection, updates, and self-updating.

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Selection of utilities

emplace – synchronize installed packages across multiple machines

September 16, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

emplace synchronizes installed packages across machines, tracks package installations from the shell, uses Git, and can also manage configuration files.

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Video Conversion

ab-av1 – AV1 encoding with fast quality sampling

September 16, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

ab-av1 is a video encoding tool that samples VMAF or XPSNR, searches for suitable CRF values, predicts output size, and drives FFmpeg encodes.

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15 Best Free and Open Source Linux Terminal-Based Clocks

September 16, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity, Roundup, TUI

We pick the finest terminal-based clocks. Most of them offer a TUI, with the remaining few running from the command-line.

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Verilator – SystemVerilog simulator and lint system

September 15, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

Verilator is a SystemVerilog simulator and lint system aimed at high-performance digital design verification.

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svlint – configurable SystemVerilog linter

September 15, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

svlint is a configurable SystemVerilog linter with selectable rules, bundled rulesets, TOML configuration and editor integration through svls.

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Verible – SystemVerilog parser, linter, formatter and language server

September 15, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

Verible is a suite of SystemVerilog developer tools providing style linting, formatting, parsing, project analysis and language server support.

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pretty-php – opinionated PHP code formatter

September 14, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

pretty-php is a PHP code formatter with deterministic output, small diffs, style presets, equivalence checks, and CLI integration.

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WartRemover – flexible Scala code linter

September 14, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

WartRemover is a flexible Scala linter that uses compiler plugins and configurable warts to reject unsafe, surprising or undesirable code.

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Scapegoat – static code analysis for Scala

September 14, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

Scapegoat is a Scala static code analyser that flags bugs, questionable constructs and style problems through configurable compiler inspections.

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Security

Directory Checksum – recursively hash directory contents

September 13, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Security

Directory Checksum recursively hashes directory contents to identify changes and help diagnose Docker, BuildKit, and other OCI build-cache issues.

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