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xls – ls utility

January 7, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

xls is a utility program for listing files.

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VHS – write terminal GIFs as code

January 7, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

VHS turns scripted terminal actions into repeatable GIF, MP4 and WebM demos, making CLI documentation and testing easy to automate.

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98kalculator – scientific calculator

January 7, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

98kalculator is a fast, lightweight, and well-designed calculator built with Python and PyQt6.

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Clipboard

Waypin – lightweight clipboard viewer

January 7, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Waypin is a lightweight clipboard viewer for Linux that previews copied content in a GTK window with Wayland and X11 compatibility.

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podliner – terminal-based podcast player

January 7, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia, Reviews, TUI

podliner is a terminal-based podcast player. It’s cross-platform software that runs under Linux, macOS, and Windows.

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Coding

Seer – graphical frontend to GDB

January 7, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Programming

Seer is a Qt GUI front end to GDB, providing source-level debugging, variable tracking, breakpoint management and memory visualisation.

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Maths

CGSuite – computer algebra system

January 7, 2026 Steve Emms Scientific

CGSuite is a computer algebra system for research in combinatorial game theory.

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Nomad Network – mesh communication

January 7, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, TUI

Nomad Network is off-grid, resilient mesh communication with strong encryption, forward secrecy and extreme privacy.

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Data Science

PsychoPy – create experiments in behavioural science

January 7, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, Scientific

PsychoPy is an open-source package for creating experiments in behavioural science.

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Files

iris – config-driven file organizer

January 6, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

iris helps you sort and organize your messy folders automatically using defined rules. It’s written in Rust.

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Best Free and Open Source Documentation Generators

Brief – browse command-line cheatsheets

January 6, 2026 Steve Emms GUI

Brief is an app for browsing command-line cheatsheets written in Python, using GTK4 and Libadwaita.

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Find Duplicates

trxsh – command-line trash manager

January 6, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

trxsh moves files to the trash and offers restoration by ID or fzf, listings, size reports and age-based permanent cleanup.

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Selection of utilities

prox – process manager

January 6, 2026 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

prox is a modern, powerful process manager with a beautiful Terminal User Interface (TUI). Inspired by pm2, built with Go and Bubbletea.

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Linux Candy: ascii_moon – displays the moon phase

January 6, 2026 Steve Emms Reviews, Scientific, TUI

ascii_moon is a small TUI program that displays the moon phase in ASCII art. It’s a small single native binary.

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Tools that help you

Outfieldr – TLDR client

January 6, 2026 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

Outfieldr is a TLDR client written in Zig. TLDR offers an alternative to man pages.

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PaaS

Kubero – self-hosted PaaS

January 6, 2026 Steve Emms Internet

Kubero is a self-hosted Platform as a Service that allows a developer to deploy their application on Kubernetes without specialized knowledge.

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nchat – terminal-based messaging client

January 6, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, TUI

nchat is a terminal messaging client for WhatsApp, Telegram and Signal with conversation search, media handling and editable key bindings.

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Not1MM – amateur radio contest logger

January 6, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Other

Not1MM is a Linux amateur radio contest logger with CAT control, CW keying, DX cluster, bandmap, contest plugins, and Cabrillo output.

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Musical instruments

idntag – identify and tag audio files

January 6, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

Idntag is a command-line tool that identifies artist and title of specified audio files and updates their ID3-tag meta-data

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Linux

Packet – terminal multiplexer and broadcast system

January 5, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

Packet is a professional terminal multiplexer and broadcast system designed specifically for network engineers and system administrators.

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