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3D Printer

Printrun – suite of hosts for 3D printers and other CNC machines

March 7, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, Utilities

Printrun consists of a suite of hosts for 3D printers and other CNC machines and a small collection of scripts.

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System administration

dprox – lightweight DNS proxy server

March 6, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

dprox is a lightweight DNS proxy server. It’s created as a drop-in replacement of dnsmasq to work with dnsmasq-china-list.

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Clipboard

wayclip – access the Wayland clipboard

March 6, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

wayclip is a pair of command-line utilities: waycopy and waypaste, which allow access to the Wayland clipboard.

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boom – manage text snippets

March 6, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

boom manages your text snippets on the command line.

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3D Printer

Slic3r – toolpath generator for 3D printers

March 5, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, Utilities

Slic3r is a toolpath generator for 3D printers: reads 3D models (STL, OBJ, AMF, 3MF) and converts them into G-code instructions.

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Automation

xdotool – fake keyboard/mouse input, window management

March 4, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity

xdotool lets you simulate keyboard input and mouse activity, move and resize windows, etc. It does this using X11’s XTEST extension.

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Bluetooth

BLE Serial – RFCOMM for BLE

March 4, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

BLE Serial is a tool to connect Bluetooth 4.0+ Low Energy to UART modules and normal PCs/laptops/Raspberry Pi.

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movie-cli – obtain information about movies

March 4, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

movie-cli is a CLI for getting information about a movies and comparing two movies.

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lowcharts – draw low-resolution graphs in terminal

March 4, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

lowcharts is a tool to draw low-resolution graphs in terminal.

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Text Editor

Orbiton – configuration-free text editor and IDE

March 4, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Documents

Orbiton is a configuration-free little text editor and IDE for the terminal.

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Documentation

dug – global DNS propagation checker

March 3, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

dug is a powerful global DNS propagation checker that can output in a variety of formats.

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Monitoring

btail – interactive file tail viewer

March 2, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

btail is a command-line utility for viewing the tail of files with an interactive terminal user interface.

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Comic Books

oyomu – CLI comic collection manager and reader

March 1, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Other

oyomu is a command line comic collection manager and also a comic reader.

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Utility

which – show the full path of commands

March 1, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

which is a utility that is used to find which executable (or alias or shell function) is executed when entered on the shell prompt.

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Encrypted Files

eddy – fast command-line file encryption tool

February 28, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Security

eddy is a fast command-line file encryption tool with concurrent processing, authenticated decryption, passphrase generation and globbing.

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3D Printer

PrusaSlicer – export print files for your 3D printer

February 28, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, Utilities

PrusaSlicer takes 3D models (STL, OBJ, AMF) and converts them into G-code instructions for FFF printers or PNG layers for mSLA 3D printers.

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Linux Candy

Linux Candy: lifecycler – terminal aquarium

February 28, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Games, Reviews

lifecycler is an aquarium that runs direct in your terminal. It’s free and open source goodness written in Rust.

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Images of shells by the sea

arsh – statically typed scripting language

February 25, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

arsh is a statically typed scripting language with shell-like features.

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Warble

cwordle – Wordle clone

February 24, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Games

cwordle is a free and open source clone of the popular web-based word game Wordle.

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Encryption software

Volaris – encryption tool

February 24, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Security

Volaris is an encryption tool designed to prioritize privacy and security.

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