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DailyDash – head-up display for developers

February 7, 2026 Steve Emms Programming, TUI

DailyDash is a terminal-based “Head-Up Display” (HUD) designed for focus-driven developers.

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T – text processing language and utility

February 5, 2026 Steve Emms Programming

t is a concise language for manipulating text, replacing common usage patterns of Unix utilities like grep, sed, cut, awk, sort, and uniq.

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Phorge – powerful developer toolkit

February 5, 2026 Steve Emms Programming, Web Apps

Phorge is an opinionated, community-driven platform for collaborating, managing, organizing and reviewing software development projects.

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pproftui – terminal-based diagnostic tool

February 5, 2026 Steve Emms Programming, TUI

pproftui is a terminal-based UI for Go’s pprof that makes profiling interactive, intuitive, and fast.

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stax – manage stacked Git branches and pull requests

February 4, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming, TUI

stax manages stacked Git branches and pull requests with CLI and TUI workflows, worktrees, synchronisation and native GitHub stack support.

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ziglint – linting suite

February 3, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

ziglint searches the current directory for .zig files and lint them against the various tests in the suite.

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go-critic – opinionated Go source code linter

February 3, 2026 Eilidih Parris CLI, Programming

go-critic is an extensible Go linter with almost 100 checks for bugs, performance, diagnostics and opinionated source-code improvements.

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Flow – static type checker

February 1, 2026 Eilidih Parris Programming

Flow is a static type checker for your JavaScript code. It does a lot of work to make you more productive.

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Coding

Scalene – memory profiler

February 1, 2026 Steve Emms Programming

Scalene is a high-performance, high-precision CPU, GPU, and memory profiler for Python with AI-powered optimization proposals.

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Framework

haskeline – CLI for user input

January 31, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

Haskeline provides a user interface for line input in command-line programs. This library is similar in purpose to readline

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ZLint – opinionated linter

January 31, 2026 Steve Emms Programming

ZLint is an opinionated linter for the Zig programming language.

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Framework

vty – terminal interface library

January 31, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

vty is a terminal interface library. It provides a high-level interface for doing terminal I/O.

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Git Clients

Beads – distributed, git-backed graph issue tracker for AI agents

January 30, 2026 Steve Emms Programming

Beads provides a persistent, structured memory for coding agents. It replaces messy markdown plans with a dependency-aware graph

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Programming

JuMP – domain-specific modeling language for mathematical optimization

January 30, 2026 Eilidih Parris Programming

JuMP is a modeling language and collection of supporting packages for mathematical optimization in Julia.

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Coding

yam – formatter for YAML

January 30, 2026 Erik Karlsson CLI, Programming

yam is a little formatter for YAML written in the Go programming language.

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Framework

iocraft – craft CLIs, TUIs, and text-based IO

January 29, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming, TUI

iocraft is a library for crafting beautiful text output and interfaces for the terminal or logs.

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Framework

tui-input – library supporting multiple backends

January 29, 2026 Steve Emms Programming, TUI

tui-input is a TUI input library supporting multiple backends. This crate can be used with tui-rs and ratatui.

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csscss – CSS redundancy analyzer

January 29, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

csscss will parse any CSS files you give it and let you know which rulesets have duplicated declarations.

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Coding

libfyaml – fully-featured YAML 1.2 and JSON parser/writer

January 29, 2026 Eilidih Parris Programming

libfyaml is a fully-featured YAML 1.2 and JSON parser/writer with zero-copy operation and no artificial limits.

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Framework

Crossterm – terminal manipulation library

January 28, 2026 Steve Emms Programming

Crossterm is a pure-rust, terminal manipulation library that makes it possible to write cross-platform text-based interfaces.

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