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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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Security

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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Static Site Generator

Zas – lightweight static site generator

June 17, 2025 Eilidih Parris CLI, Web Apps

Zas is a static site generator that converts Markdown and HTML files into web pages with configurable layouts and extensible commands.

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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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Static Site Generators

Hindsite – static website generator

June 11, 2025 Eilidih Parris CLI, Web Apps

Hindsite generates static websites from Markdown and Rimu documents with optional indexes, live reload, linting and site templates.

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Static Site Generator

Magnanimous – static website generator

June 10, 2025 Eilidih Parris CLI, Web Apps

Magnanimous is a static site generator offering expression-based templates, includes, reusable variables, components and Markdown.

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Static Site Generator

Ago – minimal static blog generator

June 9, 2025 Eilidih Parris CLI, Web Apps

Ago is a small static blog generator focused on converting simple content into a website without an elaborate publishing framework.

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Static Site Generator

LitePub – lightweight static blog generator

June 9, 2025 Eilidih Parris CLI, Web Apps

LitePub is a lightweight static blog generator that derives post metadata from Markdown and produces tag pages using templates.

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