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Category: Utilities

8N1Term – serial terminal

February 2, 2026 Steve Emms Utilities

8N1Term is billed as a next-generation serial terminal that removes ASCII table lookup.

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process

Hexus – process manager

February 2, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Hexus is a process manager built using .NET 10 designed to work on Linux and Windows seamlessly.

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Virtual Keyboard

wvkbd – on-screen keyboard for wlroots

February 1, 2026 Steve Emms Utilities

wvkbd aims to deliver a minimal but practically usable implementation of a wlroots on-screen keyboard in legible C.

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Selection of utilities

Stratis – local storage management

February 1, 2026 Steve Emms Utilities

Stratis is a tool to easily configure pools and filesystems with enhanced storage functionality.

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JSON Tools

qq – jq but an interoperable configuration format transcoder

February 1, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

qq is multi modal, and can be used as a replacement for jq or be interacted with via a REPL.

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SSD

NoxDir – visualize file system usage

January 31, 2026 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

NoxDir is a high-performance, cross-platform command-line tool for visualizing and exploring your file system usage.

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colorstorm – TUI to generate color themes for Vim, VSCode, and Sublime

January 31, 2026 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

colorstorm is a command line TUI to generate color themes for Vim, VSCode, and Sublime.

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Fonts

Geist – typeface designed for developers and designers

January 31, 2026 Steve Emms Utilities

Geist embodies design principles of simplicity, minimalism, and speed, drawing inspiration from the renowned Swiss design movement.

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Password Manager

Pass-CLI – password and API key manager

January 30, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Pass-CLI is a fast, secure password and API key manager that stores credentials locally with AES-256-GCM encryption.

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Selection of utilities

oq – terminal-based OpenAPI Spec (OAS) viewer

January 30, 2026 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

oq is a terminal-based OpenAPI Spec (OAS) viewer. It’s written in the Go language.

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process

Alternatives to popular CLI tools: stow

January 30, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Stow is a symlink farm manager which takes distinct sets of software and/or data located in separate directories on the filesystem.

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Image of Files

gump – smarter cd command

January 29, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

gump is a directory jumper using frecency. Type directory fragments, land where you meant.

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Fonts

0xProto – programming font focused on source code legibility

January 29, 2026 Steve Emms Utilities

0xProto is a programming font focused on source code legibility. 0xProto is free and open source.

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Selection of utilities

LiDM – light login manager

January 27, 2026 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

LiDM is a really light unix login manager made in C which aims to be highly customizable

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Bookmark manager

bkmr – CLI knowledge management system

January 26, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity, Utilities

bkmr is a fast, feature-rich command-line tool that extends bookmark management, snippet handling, markdown rendering, script execution and more.

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3D Printer

Creality Print – 3D slicer for Creality printers

January 25, 2026 Steve Emms Utilities

Creality Print is forked from Orca Slice. In turn, Orca Slicer is forked from Bambu Studio, a fork of PrusaSlicer, a fork of Slic3r.

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Linux Candy

WallPicker – wallpacker picker with Wallhaven integration and AI upscaling

January 23, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Reviews, Utilities

WallPicker is a modern wallpaper picker application. This isn’t the first wallpaper program that’s been explored in this series.

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Font Tools

Modular Font Editor K – modular font editor

January 23, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

MFEKglif is a Glyph editor for the Modular Font Editor K project.

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USB

lsplug – replacement for lsusb

January 23, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

lsplug is a replacement for lsusb that shows more useful info and less useless info.

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System Administration

penguins’ eggs – create live ISO images and custom Linux respins

January 23, 2026 Steve Emms Utilities

Penguins’ Eggs is a tool to create live ISO images and custom Linux respin.

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