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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 applications and Linux system performance

June 12, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, Programming

Sysprof profiles Linux applications and the whole system with call graphs, flame graphs, resource counters and GNOME instrumentation.

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Antidote – fast Zsh plugin manager

June 5, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Antidote manages Zsh plugins with declarative bundle files, fast static startup scripts, deferred loading and configurable plugin paths.

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Static Site Generators

Prosopopee – photographic storytelling generator

June 5, 2025 Eilidih Parris CLI, Web Apps

Prosopopee builds narrative photo galleries with YAML-defined sections, multiple image sizes, video embeds, themes and lazy loading.

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Static Site Generators

Teedoc – documentation website generator

June 5, 2025 Eilidih Parris CLI, Web Apps

Teedoc builds documentation portals, knowledge bases and blogs from Markdown and notebooks, with themes, search and multiple versions.

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Grow – declarative website generator

June 5, 2025 Eilidih Parris CLI, Web Apps

Grow generates multilingual websites from YAML and JSON content, using Jinja templates, data binding and declarative site structure.

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Static Site Generator

Bestatic – static site generator

June 5, 2025 Eilidih Parris CLI, Web Apps

Bestatic generates blogs and static websites from Markdown, with Jinja themes, taxonomies, site search, image tools and RSS feeds.

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Shell prompt

zgenom – fast Zsh plugin manager

June 4, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

zgenom manages Zsh plugins using generated startup scripts, timed updates, lazy loading, executable paths and Oh My Zsh modules.

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zplug – Zsh plugin manager

June 3, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

zplug manages Zsh plugins, themes and commands from Git repositories, Gists and local paths with parallel updates and lazy loading.

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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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Shell prompt

ZSH Quickstart Kit – customisable Zsh configuration

June 2, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

ZSH Quickstart Kit supplies a customisable Zsh configuration with curated plugins, shell history improvements and update controls.

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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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