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Documentation

File Shredder permanently deletes files

April 16, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

File Shredder is a file deletion program designed to permanently remove sensitive files from your computer, enhancing data privacy.

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Dictionary Tools

Words is a multilingual offline dictionary

April 15, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Words is a multilingual dictionary activity for the Sugar environment.

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Dictionary Tools

Lexi is a self-driven dictionary app

April 14, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Lexi is a self-driven dictionary app for those who want to make their language learning (or creating) structured and easy.

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Password Managers

rbw is an unofficial Bitwarden CLI

April 14, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

rbw is an unofficial Bitwarden client which maintains a background process which is able to hold keys in memory.

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Password Managers

Teller is a multi provider secret management tool

April 13, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

With Teller, never leave your terminal to use secrets while developing, testing, and building your apps.

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Password Managers

Bitwarden CLI – access and manage your vault

April 11, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

The Bitwarden command-line interface (CLI) is a powerful, fully-featured tool for accessing and managing your vault.

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Essential Utilities to Boost Producitivity

autoenv provides directory based environments

April 10, 2025 Steve Emms Utilities

If a directory contains an .env file, it will automatically be executed when you cd into it.

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Essential Utilities to Boost Producitivity

mise manages installations of programming language runtimes

April 8, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

mise is a tool that manages installations of programming language runtimes and other tools for local development.

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Essential Utilities to Boost Producitivity

direnv unclutters your .profile

April 8, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

direnv is an extension for your shell that manages your environment.

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Selection of utilities

quickenv is an unobtrusive environment manager

April 7, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

quickenv is a replacement for direnv. It works with existing .envrcs, and as such is a drop-in replacement.

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Selection of utilities

Shadowenv performs a set of manipulations to the process environment

April 6, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Shadowenv provides a way to perform a set of manipulations to the process environment upon entering a directory in a shell.

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Selection of utilities

asdf is an extendable version manager

April 5, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

asdf is a CLI tool that can manage multiple language runtime versions on a per-project basis.

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Essential Utilities to Boost Producitivity

zsh-autoenv automatically sources .autoenv.zsh files

April 5, 2025 Steve Emms Utilities

zsh-autoenv automatically sources (known/whitelisted) .autoenv.zsh files, typically used in project root directories.

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Laptop

OptimusUI is a GUI for nVidia Optimus

April 4, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

OptimusUI is a graphical user interface for Laptops with nVidia Optimus Technology (e.g. switchable graphics).

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duple finds and removes duplicate files

April 4, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

duple will iterate through all files and directories that is given and find duplicate files (files are compared on their contents).

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Document viewer

Text Pieces is a developer’s scratchpad

April 4, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, GUI, Utilities

Text Pieces is a small tool for quick text transformations such as checksums, encoding, decoding and so on.

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GNOME Extensions

Wardrobe is a GNOME customization tool

April 3, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Wardrobe is a utility for installing community made Gnome Shell, Gtk3/4, icon, and cursor themes as well as wallpapers.

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Find

ast-grep performs structural search, lint and rewriting

April 2, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

ast-grep (sg) is a CLI tool for code structural search, lint, and rewriting.

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Find

serpl is a TUI to search and replace keywords

April 1, 2025 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

serpl is a terminal user interface (TUI) application that allows users to search and replace keywords in an entire folder,

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Documents

facad is a modern colorful directory listing tool

April 1, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

facad is a modern, colorful directory listing tool for the command line. It’s written in C.

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