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Wallpaper Setter

Waypaper – lightweight graphical wallpaper manager for Linux

May 7, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Waypaper is a lightweight GTK wallpaper manager for Wayland, Xorg and macOS, with slideshows, animated wallpapers and multi-monitor support.

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Selection of utilities

steamfetch – display your Steam stats

May 7, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

steamfetch is a terminal utility inspired by neofetch that presents Steam profile and library statistics in a styled command-line display.

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Wallpaper Setter

Hyprpaper – wallpaper utility designed for Hyprland

May 7, 2026 Steve Emms Utilities

hyprpaper sets wallpapers on individual Hyprland monitors, with IPC switching, image scaling and automatic rotation from wallpaper folders.

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Wallpaper Setter

awww – animated wallpaper daemon for Wayland

May 6, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

awww is an animated wallpaper daemon for Wayland, offering image transitions, per-output selection, restoration and runtime controls.

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nless – interactive terminal pager for structured data

May 6, 2026 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

nless is an interactive terminal pager for logs, CSV and JSON with automatic column parsing, filters, sorting and pivots.

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Diff Tools

RCompare – file and directory comparison toolkit

May 5, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, Utilities

RCompare is a file and directory comparison toolkit with a Rust core, PySide6 GUI, specialised file diffing, sync tools and CLI support.

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FilesFinder – search for files within a given repository

May 4, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

FilesFinder is a command-line utility that searches for files within a repository while respecting ignore rules.

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pff – Pretty Fast Find

May 4, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Pretty Fast Find (pff) is a command-line file search utility written in Rust.

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Diff Tools

vbl – terminal-based hexadecimal viewer for Linux

May 3, 2026 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

vbl is a terminal-based hexadecimal viewer that lets you inspect binary data from files and devices in a dynamic hex and ASCII interface.

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Log Analyzers

tailspin – terminal log file highlighter

May 3, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, System Software, Utilities

tailspin is a terminal log file highlighter designed for inspecting log output in the shell.

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Log Analyzers

Nerdlog – remote-first terminal log viewer

May 3, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, System Software, Utilities

Nerdlog is a remote-first log viewer that searches multiple SSH hosts, merges results and visualises activity with a timeline.

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Log Analyzers

hl – command-line tool for inspecting structured logs

May 3, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, System Software, Utilities

hl is designed for fast analysis of large log files and streams, helping users search, sort, and navigate log output.

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Log Analyzers

lazyjournal – terminal viewer for system and container logs

May 3, 2026 Steve Emms System Software, TUI, Utilities

lazyjournal is a terminal viewer for journald, auditd, files, containers and Kubernetes logs with highlighting and flexible filters.

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Diff Tools

biodiff – terminal-based binary diff viewer

May 2, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

biodiff compares two files side by side in a hex view and uses alignment algorithms to keep similar regions lined up.

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Selection of utilities

fdf – high performance command line file finder

May 2, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

fdf is a high performance command line file finder written in Rust.

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Diff Tools

VBinDiff – visual binary diff

May 1, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

VBinDiff is a text-based visual binary diff and hexadecimal file viewer that displays file contents in hexadecimal alongside ASCII.

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Selection of utilities

RustDiff – semantic JSON, XML and SQL diff tool

May 1, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

RustDiff is a GTK4 semantic diff tool for JSON, XML and SQL with side-by-side editors, search, graph view, history and export.

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Circuit board

ufetch – tiny system information scripts for Unix-like systems

April 29, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

ufetch uses platform-specific shell scripts to show system information with distro artwork, configurable colours and compact output.

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Selection of utilities

hist-rs – high-throughput CLI to count unique lines

April 28, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

hist-rs is a Rust command-line utility built for high-throughput line-oriented text processing.

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Selection of utilities

cuniq – count unique lines in text input

April 27, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

cuniq is a command-line utility written in Rust for counting unique lines in text input.

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