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SpotBugs – find bugs in Java code

November 27, 2025 Eilidih Parris CLI, Programming

SpotBugs is a program which uses static analysis to look for bugs in Java code. It’s a fork of the abandoned FindBugs.

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lein-bikeshed – Leiningen plugin

November 26, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

lein-bikeshed is a Leiningen plugin designed to tell you your code is bad, and that you should feel bad.

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clj-kondo – static analyzer and linter for Clojure

November 25, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

Clj-kondo performs static analysis on Clojure, ClojureScript and EDN. It informs you about potential errors while you are typing.

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kibit – static code analyzer for Clojure

November 24, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

kibit is a static code analyzer for Clojure, ClojureScript, cljx and other Clojure variants.

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eastwood – Clojure lint tool

November 23, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

Eastwood’s main area of focus is spotting bugs (as opposed to, say, helping following coding conventions).

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Resonance – clean and minimal API client

November 15, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Programming

Resonance is an API client application designed to provide an excellent user experience for testing and interacting with APIs.

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CCodemerge – merges multiple C/C++ source files into a single text file

November 13, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

CCodemerge is a command-line utility that merges multiple C/C++ source files into a single text file.

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Hug SCM – The Humane Source Control Management Interface

November 12, 2025 Steve Emms Programming, TUI

Hug SCM is an intuitive interface for Git and other version control systems. It works as a universal language.

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axx – generalized assembler

November 8, 2025 Steve Emms Programming

axx.py is a general assembler that generalizes assemblers. In theory, it can process almost any von Neumann type processor architecture.

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Git Clients

Actioneer – graphical desktop client for GitHub Actions

November 8, 2025 Steve Emms Graphics, Programming

Actioneer is a native GNOME desktop client for GitHub Actions.

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mbake – Makefile formatter and linter

November 1, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

mbake is a Makefile formatter and linter that offers smart formatting: Tabs for recipes, consistent spacing, line continuation cleanup.

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zomodoro – simple pomodoro

October 29, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Programming

zomodoro is a simple pomodoro made with Qt.

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Development

Positron – next-generation data science IDE

October 25, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Programming, Scientific

Positron is a next-generation data science IDE. It’s also an extensible, polyglot tool for writing code and exploring data.

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Git Clients

ggc – modern Git CLI tool

October 24, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Programming, TUI

ggc is a Git tool written in Go, offering both traditional CLI commands and an interactive interface with incremental search.

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Machine Learning in Linux

Nanocoder – local-first CLI coding agent

October 20, 2025 Steve Emms Programming, TUI

Nanocoder is a local-first CLI coding agent that brings the power of agentic coding tools like Claude Code and Gemini CLI to local models

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Rate My OpenAPI – improve the quality of your OpenAPI specifications

October 16, 2025 Eilidih Parris CLI, Programming

Rate My OpenAPI is a suite of tools designed to help software developers who are using OpenAPI to design and implement their APIs.

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oval – CLI for (O)penAPI Specification document (val)idation

October 15, 2025 Eilidih Parris CLI, Programming

oval is an OpenAPI Specification (OAS) document validator that was built to replace the CLI provided by swagger-tools.

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Git Clients

GitHub Desktop – Electron-based GitHub app

October 14, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Programming

GitHub Desktop is an open-source Electron-based GitHub app. It is written in TypeScript and uses React. This fork adds Linux support.

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OpenAPI Spec validator – validates OpenAPI Specs

October 14, 2025 Eilidih Parris CLI, Programming

OpenAPI Spec Validator is a CLI, pre-commit hook and python package that validates OpenAPI Specs against the OpenAPI 2.0 (aka Swagger), OpenAPI 3.0 and OpenAPI 3.1 specification.

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Git Clients

Jig – Git pre-commit hook on steroids

October 14, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

Jig is a command line tool and framework for getting more from the Git pre-commit hook.

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