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Category: Utilities

Selection of utilities

Pyprland – customization tool for Hyprland

December 27, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Pyprland offers a plethora of plugins designed for simplicity and efficiency, allowing you to supercharge your productivity

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Network

turm – interface for the Slurm Workload Manager

December 27, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

turm is a text-based user interface (TUI) for the Slurm Workload Manager, which provides a convenient way to manage your cluster jobs.

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Documents

lla – fast ls replacement with superpowers

December 26, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

lla is a modern ls replacement that transforms how developers interact with their filesystem.

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Selection of utilities

nak – nostr army knife

December 24, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

nak is the nostr army knife command-line tool. This is free and unencumbered software released into the public domain.

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Monitoring

dirmap – generate annotated directory maps from source files

December 24, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

dirmap generates annotated directory maps from Markdown and source comments, with configurable matchers, ignore patterns, and table output.

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Selection of utilities

xLights – sequencer for lights

December 23, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

xLights is a sequencer to design, create and play lighting displays through the use of DMX controllers, E1.31 Ethernet controllers and more.

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Selection of utilities

ck – semantic code search

December 23, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, TUI, Utilities

ck (seek) finds code by meaning, not just keywords. It’s grep that understands what you’re looking for

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Flash OS

buf – flash ISOs to create bootable USB drives

December 23, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

buf is a command-line utility for flashing ISOs to create bootable USB drives.

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Essential Utilities to Boost Producitivity

demongrep – fast, local semantic code search

December 23, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Search your codebase using natural language queries like “where do we handle authentication?” — all running locally with no API calls.

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Selection of utilities

dotbins – manages CLI tool binaries in your dotfiles repository

December 22, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

dotbins uniquely integrates tool-specific shell configurations (aliases, completions, etc.) directly in your dotfiles workflow.

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System administration

gasroot – run a process as the root user

December 21, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, Utilities

gasroot is a utility that lets you run a process as the root user. gasroot asks for the user’s password, using a graphical interface.

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Password manager

spw – generate secure passwords

December 21, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

spw lets you generate secure passwords using multiple algorithms with hardware RNG support.

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Food and Drink Software

cooklang-chef – command-line manager for Cooklang recipes

December 19, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Scientific, Utilities

cooklang-chef manages plain-text cooking recipes with extended syntax, ingredient references, unit conversion and an embedded web view.

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Software

nfpm – deb, rpm, apk, ipk and arch Linux packager

December 19, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

nfpm is a simple deb, rpm, apk, ipk, and arch linux packager written in Go.

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Selection of utilities

ferp – grep clone

December 18, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

ferp aims to be a clone of grep, but written in modern Fortran.

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Essential Utilities to Boost Producitivity

cmdcreate – create custom commands

December 18, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

cmdcreate allows you to create custom commands for your Linux terminal without needing to enter the same “complex” commands

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Clipboard

bp – cross-platform clipboard tool

December 17, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

bp (“better paste”) is a cross-platform clipboard tool written in Rust, based on cb.

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Selection of utilities

zf – fuzzy finder designed for filtering filepaths

December 17, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

zf is a fuzzy finder that excels at filtering filepaths.

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Selection of utilities

lx – convert selected files into clean, consistent Markdown-fenced blocks

December 17, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

lx converts files into simple Markdown-fenced blocks for easy use in LLM chats.

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Network

split-ping – identify the direction of packet loss and latency

December 15, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

split-ping measures packet loss and latency in each direction between cooperating hosts, with UDP probes and Prometheus metrics.

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