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Monique – MONitor Integrated QUick Editor

March 3, 2026 Steve Emms Software

MONitor Integrated QUick Editor is a graphical monitor configuration tool for Hyprland and Sway.

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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: ping

March 2, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Software, Utilities

This article spotlights alternative tools to ping. All software featured here is free and open source goodness.

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Best Free and Open Source Software: February 2026 Updates

March 1, 2026 Steve Emms Software

February 2026 updates to the largest compilation of recommended free and open source software available for Linux.

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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: more

February 23, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Software, Utilities

This article spotlights alternative tools to more.

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Documentation

Alternatives to popular CLI tools: less

February 23, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Software

This article spotlights alternative tools to less. All of the tools are free and open source and sport a command-line interface.

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Find Duplicates

Alternatives to popular CLI tools: grep

February 20, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Software

This article spotlights alternative tools to grep, a utility that searches for patterns in each file.

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process

Alternatives to popular CLI tools: ps

February 19, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Software

We explore free and open source alternatives to ps, a command that reports a snapshot of the current processes.

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Screen Capture

QuickSnip – OCR and Google Lens search

February 19, 2026 Steve Emms Software

QuickSnip is a Wayland utility for OCR and Google Lens search, built using Quickshell.

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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: tree

February 15, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Software, Utilities

This article spotlights alternative tools to tree, a utility that lists the contents of directories in a tree-like format.

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Notes

Glues – Vim-inspired TUI note-taking app

February 2, 2026 Steve Emms Software

Glues is a Vim-inspired, terminal-based (TUI) note-taking application that offers flexible and secure storage options.

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Circuit board

zigfetch – system profiler

February 2, 2026 Steve Emms Software

Zigfetch is a minimal neofetch/fastfetch like system information tool.

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Best Free and Open Source Software: January 2026 Updates

February 1, 2026 Steve Emms Software

January 2026 updates to the largest compilation of recommended free and open source software available for Linux.

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JSON Tools

Alternatives to popular CLI tools: jq – JSON processor

February 1, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Software

This article spotlights alternative tools to jq, a command-line JSON processor.

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Site Updates: Our Plans

January 25, 2026 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Software

I’m delighted to discuss our updated plans with the Linux community!

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CPU

Alternatives to popular CLI tools: make

January 23, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming, Software

This article spotlights alternative tools to make, a utility which controls the generation of executables and other non-source files.

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CPU

pdpmake – public domain implementation of make

January 23, 2026 Steve Emms Software

pdpmake is a public domain implementation of make which follows the POSIX standard.

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Documentation

Alternatives to popular CLI tools: traceroute

January 20, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Software, Utilities

traceroute tracks the route packets taken from an IP network on their way to a given host. We recommend the best alternatives.

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Documentation

Alternatives to popular CLI tools: rm

January 13, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Software

This article spotlights alternative tools to rm, a command that removes files or directories.

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Documentation

Alternatives to popular CLI tools: man

January 11, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Software

A Linux system comes with a whole collection of system reference manuals (known as man pages). There’s a man page for each command or program.

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Text Editor

Hammer – story editor

January 10, 2026 Steve Emms Software

Hammer is a simple tool for building stories that’s written in the Kotlin language.

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