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Utilities

Excellent Utilities: cheat.sh – community driven cheat sheet

October 21, 2019 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software, Utilities

cheat.sh offers unified access to the best community driven documentation repositories of the world via curl/browser interface. There’s also an installable utility for more flexibility.

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Linux Candy: cacafire – Color ASCII Fire

October 7, 2019 Steve Emms Desktop, Utilities

The nights are drawing in. You want to feel warm and toasty. And nothing beats a log fire. cacafire displays burning ASCII art flames.

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Excellent Utilities: Ananicy – auto nice daemon

October 4, 2019 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, Utilities

Ananicy is a shell daemon created to manage processes’ IO and CPU priorities, with community-driven set of rules for popular applications. Here’s our review of this free and open source program.

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Linux Candy: ponysay – cowsay reimplemention for ponies

September 30, 2019 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

ponysay is a rewrite of cowsay with lots of full-color characters from My Little Pony. There’s over 400 characters and character combinations.

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Excellent Utilities: Liquid Prompt – adaptive prompt for Bash & Zsh

September 23, 2019 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software, Utilities

Liquid Prompt gives you a nicely displayed prompt with useful information when you need it. It shows you what you need when you need it.

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Safe Eyes – protect your eyes from eye strain

September 20, 2019 Steve Emms Desktop, Reviews, Software, Utilities

Safe Eyes protect your eyes from eye strain using a simple and extensible break reminder. It’s designed to reduce and stop repetitive strain injury. It’s not just your eyes that need to take a break.

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Hyper – terminal emulator built with web technologies

September 6, 2019 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, Utilities

Hyper is one of the newer terminal emulators available. It’s built with web technologies – JavaScript, HTML, CSS. The goal of the project is to create a beautiful and extensible experience for command-line interface users, built on open web standards

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Linux Candy: ASCIIQuarium – embrace marine life from the terminal

August 26, 2019 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, Utilities

ASCIIQuarium is a short Perl script that lets you embrace aquatic nature from your terminal. It’s an aquarium/sea animation in ASCII art.

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Linux Candy: WallGen – image generator tool

August 19, 2019 Steve Emms Desktop, Reviews, Software, Utilities

Let’s start our candy adventure with WallGen. It’s a small command-line utility that generates HQ poly wallpapers with only a few text arguments for inputs. Depending on these arguments, you can create shape-based patterns, randomly filled surfaces, and even image-based patterns.

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Utilities

Excellent Utilities: peco – interactive filtering tool

August 9, 2019 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software, Utilities

peco is a CLI utility that filters text interactively. The tool is written in the Go programming language. It’s free and open source software.

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