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System administration

DNSControl – infrastructure as code for DNS

July 15, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

DNSControl manages DNS as code with a JavaScript-compatible DSL, provider plugins, previews, Git workflows and automated deployment.

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Chess

minnow – simple and fairly weak chess engine

July 15, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Games

minnow is a chess engine with partial UCI compatibility, a 10×12 board representation with piece lists.

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Chess

Texel is a free chess engine

July 14, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Games

Texel applies many of the standard methods for computer chess programs, such as iterative deepening, negascout, aspiration windows…

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ttysterm is a simple serial terminal

July 13, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

ttysterm is a minimalist terminal program like *minicom* or *cu*.

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QCalcFileHash – graphical hash calculator

July 9, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, Security

QCalcFileHash computes SHA, MD5, CRC and optional GOST checksums using a graphical interface or command-line processing.

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Network Security

md5 – MD5 message digest utility

July 9, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Security

md5 generates and verifies MD5 digests of files and text using a compact command-line tool for legacy checksum workflows and scripting.

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ssterm – console-based serial port terminal

July 9, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

ssterm provides text-based serial communication with hexadecimal views, character highlighting, newline conversion and local echo.

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Reference Managers

CiteBib – generate BibTeX and LaTeX bibliographies

July 8, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Education

CiteBib generates BibTeX and LaTeX bibliographies from citations in TeX documents, with configurable output fields and formatting.

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Network Security

dano – media stream integrity verification

July 8, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Security

dano verifies internal media streams independently of filenames and metadata, with concurrent processing and duplicate detection.

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b3sum – BLAKE3 checksum utility

July 7, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Security

b3sum computes BLAKE3 cryptographic hashes for files and standard input, with multithreading, checksum checking and keyed modes.

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System network administration

NetworkManager – Linux network connection manager

July 7, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, System Software, TUI

NetworkManager configures Ethernet, Wi-Fi, mobile broadband and VPN connections, with automatic profiles, DNS and CLI tools.

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Network Security

xxHash – fast non-cryptographic hashing

July 6, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Scientific

xxHash is a fast non-cryptographic hashing library and CLI with XXH32, XXH64, XXH3, streaming hashes and checksum verification.

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Hashrat – file hashing and integrity tool

July 5, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Security

Hashrat computes, checks and matches file hashes with recursive scans, duplicate detection, extended attributes and remote hashing.

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Network Security

hashdir – file and directory checksum utility

July 4, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Security

hashdir produces checksums for files and entire directories, supports BLAKE3, SHA and xxHash3, and verifies saved hash records.

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Hash Calculator – versatile hashing utility

July 3, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Security

Hash Calculator computes file and string digests, searches by hashes, analyses partial files and offers dictionary-based recovery.

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ddogreen – smart power management

July 2, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

ddogreen is a simple service that automatically saves energy by switching your Linux laptop between high-performance and power-saving modes.

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Fonts

fnt – apt for fonts

July 2, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

fnt is a tool to download and install fonts. It helps you to download vector fonts from Debian side, and Google Web Fonts.

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Music image

mpvc – mpc-like CLI tool for mpv

June 30, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

mpvc is a music player in POSIX-sh interfacing mpv from the shell and extras/goodies.

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Essential Utilities to Boost Producitivity

vmstat – reports virtual memory statistics

June 30, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

vmstat reports information about processes, memory, paging, block IO, traps, disks and cpu activity.

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Chess

zurichess – UCI chess engine

June 29, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Games

zurichess is a chess engine and a chess library. Its main goals are to be a relatively strong chess engine and to enable chess tools writing.

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