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Category: Utilities

Selection of utilities

forkrun – NUMA-aware contention-free streaming parallelization

April 14, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

forkrun is a Bash-native streaming parallelization engine for Linux that’s designed as a drop-in replacement for Parallel and xargs -P.

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Password manager

Keycord – graphical client for pass password stores

April 14, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Keycord manages pass-compatible encrypted password stores with search, TOTP codes, password health checks and optional Git synchronization.

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Selection of utilities

Diveboard – GTK client

April 14, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Diveboard is a GTK client for diveboard.com designed for Linux based mobiles like the PinePhone/Librem5.

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Find Duplicates

Prunr – find and remove duplicate files

April 13, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Prunr is a desktop disk cleanup utility that helps you find duplicate files and understand how storage is being used.

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Files

umber – tool to replace cat

April 13, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

umber is a command-line utility designed to replace cat for reading source code and other text files in the terminal.

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Monitor System

CoreX – graphical hardware and sensor monitor

April 13, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

CoreX monitors Linux hardware sensors with customisable device dashboards, real-time charts and a configurable floating desktop widget.

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Task Manager

Kanri – modern offline Kanban board

April 13, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity, Utilities

Kanri is a modern desktop Kanban board application for personal task and project management.

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Selection of utilities

axe – xargs alternative

April 13, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

axe is a command-line utility that serves as an alternative to xargs, with a particular focus on argument processing and argument ordering.

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Katalog – manage catalogs of disks and files

April 12, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Katalog is a desktop application for cataloging files and storage devices so you can search, browse, and analyze their contents.

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2026 calendar

Alternatives to popular CLI tools: cal

April 12, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Software, Utilities

We spotlight alternatives tools to cal, a utility for displaying calendars on the command-line.

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Selection of utilities

rush – command-line tool for executing jobs in parallel

April 12, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

rush is a tool similar to parallel and gargs.

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SSD

darya – disk usage explorer

April 11, 2026 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

Darya is a keyboard-driven disk usage explorer for the terminal written in Rust.

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Files

jsongrep – fast querying of JSON, YAML, TOML, JSONL, CBOR

April 10, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

jsongrep is a CLI tool and Rust library for querying structured data with a JSONPath-inspired language based on regular path expressions.

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SafeScript – code snippet manager

April 9, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

SafeScript gives developers a dedicated place to store and organize reusable code fragments in a local SQLite database.

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Selection of utilities

otel-tui – terminal-based observability viewer

April 8, 2026 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

otel-tui is a terminal-based observability viewer that lets you inspect telemetry data directly from a text user interface.

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Selection of utilities

hyprmoncfg – monitor configurator and background daemon for Hyprland

April 7, 2026 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

hyprmoncfg is a terminal-first monitor configurator and background daemon for Hyprland.

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Monitor System

bpftop – dynamic real-time view of running eBPF programs

April 5, 2026 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

bpftop is a command-line monitoring tool developed by Netflix that provides a real-time, top-like interface for observing running eBPF programs

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Selection of utilities

RFC Reader – terminal-based viewer for IETF Request for Comments documents

April 5, 2026 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

RFC Reader is a terminal-based viewer for IETF Request for Comments documents written in Rust.

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Files

hawk – Haskell text processor for the command-line

April 4, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Hawk is a command-line text processor that brings Haskell expressions to shell pipelines.

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Pardus Font Manager – lightweight font management application

April 4, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Pardus Font Manager is a lightweight font management application developed for Pardus, a Debian based Linux distribution.

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