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mokii – ls replacement

January 20, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Mokii is a modern file listing utility that levels up your ls game. It brings Unicode icons, color coding, sorting options

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Selection of utilities

pacsea – Pacman and AUR utility

January 20, 2026 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

Pacsea is a TUI application for browsing and installing Arch and AUR packages.

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fpm – Fortran Package Manager

January 17, 2026 Steve Emms Programming, Utilities

Fortran Package Manager is a package manager and build system for Fortran. It aims to improve the user experience of Fortran programmers.

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Password manager

passcualito – command-line password manager

January 17, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

passcualito is a simple command-line password manager for Linux that’s written in the Go programming language.

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Documentation

rip – fuzzy find and kill processes

January 17, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, TUI, Utilities

rip is a utility that lets you fuzzy find and kill processes from your terminal.

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Selection of utilities

parqeye – visualize parquet files

January 16, 2026 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

parqeye lets you peek inside your Parquet files. Instantly inspect their contents, schema, and metadata — right from your terminal.

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Find Duplicates

crepe – grep-like search tool

January 16, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

crepe is a grep-like text search tool that highlights matches instead of filtering lines. Built in Rust for speed and reliability.

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Folder

Dupster – duplicate file finder

January 16, 2026 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

Dupster is a terminal-first duplicate file finder built for developers, system administrators, and power users who live in the command line.

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Command Schedulers

Cronkit – make cron jobs human-readable

January 16, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Cronkit is a command-line tool that makes cron jobs human-readable, auditable, and visual.

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Selection of utilities

zeP – package and version manager for Zig

January 16, 2026 Steve Emms Utilities

zeP is a fast, lightweight package manager and Zig version manager designed with simplicity, and comfort for the end-user

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Linux at Home - RSI

Ianny – prevent repetitive strain injuries

January 15, 2026 Steve Emms Utilities

Ianny is a simple, lightweight, easy to use, and effective Linux Wayland desktop utility that helps with preventing repetitive strain injuries

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Selection of utilities

X-CMD – command-line toolkit

January 15, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

X-CMD (pronounced as “X Command”) is a compact yet powerful command-line toolkit that offers over 100+ functional modules

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System Cleaning

Moonbit – terminal-based system cleaner

January 15, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, TUI, Utilities

Moonbit cleans Linux caches, temporary files and unused Docker data, with terminal controls, dry-run previews and scheduled maintenance.

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Software

yayfzf – AUR package finder

January 15, 2026 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

yayfzf is an AUR package fzf finder to search, install, remove, and manage packages using yay.

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process

DotState – dotfile manager

January 15, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, TUI, Utilities

DotState is a terminal-based tool that helps you manage your dotfiles effortlessly.

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Files

BCMR – Better Copy Move Remove

January 14, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

BCMR is a command-line tool written in Rust that lets you elegantly copy, move, and remove files.

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Selection of utilities

Waytermirror – real-time Wayland screen mirroring to a terminal

January 13, 2026 Steve Emms Utilities

Waytermirror offers real-time Wayland screen mirroring to a terminal using Unicode braille characters, half‑blocks, ASCII

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Wallpaper Setter

hpaper – advanced wallpaper management for Wayland

January 12, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

hpaper manages Wayland wallpapers using a background daemon, scheduled rotation, monitor targeting, multiple backends and pywal.

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Images of shells by the sea

ReShell – modern shell

January 12, 2026 Steve Emms Utilities

The ReShell project aims to provide a complete alternative to popular Linux shells such as the sh family (sh, bash, zsh, ksh, …)

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mmtui – TUI disk mount manager

January 12, 2026 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

mmtui is a TUI disk mount manager for TUI file managers for Linux.

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