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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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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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Chess

ShashChess is a free UCI chess engine

June 29, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Games

ShashChess is a free UCI chess engine derived from Stockfish family chess engines.

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Bomb

terminal-mines is a minesweeper game for terminals

June 28, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Games

terminal-mines is an implementation of Minesweeper with an adventure mode. It is played using the keyboard instead of a mouse.

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Web Design

rwasa – assembly-language web server

June 27, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Web Apps

rwasa is an assembly-language web server with TLS safeguards, FastCGI, compression, session caching and reverse proxy capabilities.

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Chess

Fruit – chess engine

June 27, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Games

Fruit is a cross-platform UCI chess engine.

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Password manager

SpicyPass – lightweight offline password manager

June 26, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, Utilities

SpicyPass is an offline password manager with command-line and graphical interfaces, encryption, idle locking and password generation.

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Password manager

pa – lightweight password manager using age encryption

June 25, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

pa is a lightweight password manager using age encryption, automatic Git tracking, multiple recipients and straightforward shell commands.

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Web Design

Lwan – asynchronous HTTP server

June 25, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Web Apps

Lwan is an event-driven HTTP server with coroutine scheduling, lightweight C and Lua handlers, compression and low-memory request handling.

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Web Design

devd – local web server for developers

June 25, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Web Apps

devd is a development web server with browser live reload, static serving, reverse proxy routes, virtual hosts and network throttling.

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Monitoring

lstr – interactive and scriptable directory tree viewer

June 23, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, TUI, Utilities

lstr explores directory trees in a terminal, with interactive navigation, Git status, sorting, file metadata, and JSON or HTML output.

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Monitoring

lstree – ls in tree form

June 23, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

lstree displays filesystem contents as a colourized directory tree using ls, with branching symbols and symbolic link targets.

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Chess

Demolito is a UCI chess engine

June 21, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Games

Demolito is a UCI chess engine. As such, it is a command line program, which is not designed to be used directly.

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