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picocom – minimal dumb-terminal emulation program

February 17, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

picocom is a minimal dumb-terminal emulation program. It is, in principle, very much like minicom, only it’s “pico” instead of “mini”.

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Selection of utilities

up – write Linux pipes

February 17, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

up (Ultimate Plumber) is a tool for writing Linux pipes in a terminal-based UI interactively, with instant live preview of command results.

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Essential Utilities to Boost Producitivity

lancher – local project-template manager

February 17, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

lancher lets you store, manage, and replicate project templates from your filesystem or git repositories.

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Selection of utilities

fil – UNIX file command

February 16, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

fil is a Unix file command written in Go.

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Omnicom – graphical interface for serial communication

February 16, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Omnicom is a modern and elegant graphical interface for serial communication via picocom.

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ComChan – minimal serial monitor

February 16, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Comchan (short for “Communication Channel”) is a blazingly fast, minimal, and beginner-friendly serial monitor.

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Selection of utilities

Ember – minimal AUR helper

February 15, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Ember is a minimal AUR helper written in Ruby. It allows you to easily install, update, search, and remove AUR packages

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Password manager

Keybox – GUI password manager

February 15, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Keybox is a minimal, encrypted, local password manager written in GDScript.

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Monitoring

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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Monitoring

struct – smarter tree command

February 15, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

struct is a smarter tree command built in Rust, focused on presenting clean, meaningful project structure.

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vizex

mcdu – disk usage analyzer

February 13, 2026 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

mcdu is a fast, modern disk usage analyzer with an integrated developer cleanup tool. Think ncdu meets CCleaner for developers.

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Universal Access

borse – practice braille, Morse, semaphore

February 13, 2026 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

borse is a terminal program meant to practice reading braille, Morse code, and semaphore, which are common encodings for puzzle hunts.

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Clipboard

Panox – clipboard manager

February 12, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Panox is a modern, visually appealing clipboard manager designed specifically for Wayland compositors.

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SSD

cull – reclaim precious disk space

February 12, 2026 Steve Emms Reviews, TUI, Utilities

cull is a program written in Go that helps you clean up your system. It’s a lovely small utility. Give it a whirl!

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Selection of utilities

Hermes – package manager for Arch Linux

February 12, 2026 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

Hermes is billed as a beautiful TUI package manager for Arch Linux.

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S3

STU – S3 terminal user interface

February 11, 2026 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

STU, S3 Terminal UI, is a interactive terminal-based explorer for Amazon S3 (AWS S3).

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Selection of utilities

Shelly – modern Arch package manager

February 11, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Shelly is a modern reimagination of the Arch Linux package manager, designed to be a user-friendly alternative to pacman and octopi.

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Password manager

Puny Manager – local encrypted password vault manager

February 11, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Puny Manager provides local encrypted password vaults with command-line management, password auditing, backups and import/export tools.

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Selection of utilities

fdir – search language for your filesystem

February 10, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

fdir aims to offer a fast, intuitive way to find, filter, and act on files using human-friendly commands

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Selection of utilities

preset – save and run command presets

February 10, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

preset is a program for managing and running command sequences at once, so you don’t have to manually type your commands.

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