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Essential Utilities to Boost Producitivity

hypruler – measure anything on your screen

December 12, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

hypruler is a utility to measure anything on your screen. It’s built for Linux and Hyprland.

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Topiary – uniform formatter for simple languages

December 12, 2025 Steve Emms Programming

Topiary aims to be a uniform formatter for simple languages, as part of the Tree-sitter ecosystem.

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Revision Control

Jujutsu – Git-compatible version control system

December 12, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

Jujutsu is a Git-compatible version control system with automatic snapshots, operation history, flexible rebasing and conflict handling.

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PDF

lumus – read PDF files directly in your terminal

December 11, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Documents

Lumus is a command-line tool written in Go that allows you to read PDF files directly in your terminal.

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Documentation Generators

Crycco – documentation generator

December 11, 2025 Steve Emms Programming

Crycco is a quick and dirty documentation generator in the mold of and directly inspired by Docco.

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sftpman-iced – GUI tool for sshfs and SFTP filesystems

December 11, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Internet

sftpman-iced is a GUI application for Linux systems that makes it easy to setup and mount sshfs/SFTP filesystems.

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Database

Flyway – database migration tool

December 11, 2025 Steve Emms Database

Flyway lets you evolve your database schema easily and reliably across all your instances. It’s written in Java.

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Task Manager

TTDL – Terminal ToDo List

December 11, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity

TTDL is a CLI tool to manage todo lists in todo.txt format.

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Image of a digital clock

Hourglass – simple time keeping application

December 11, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

Hourglass is a simple time keeping application designed for elementary OS. It also works with other Linux distributions.

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Documentation

meow – renders text using your existing Neovim configuration

December 11, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

meow is a command line tool that aims to be a replacement for cat/bat with better highlighting. It’s written in Lua.

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numr – text calculator for natural language expressions

December 11, 2025 Steve Emms Programming, TUI

numr is a text calculator for natural language expressions with a vim-style TUI.

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ChatGPT

Termagotchi – terminal-based Tamagotchi simulation

December 11, 2025 Steve Emms Other, TUI

Termagotchi is a terminal-based Tamagotchi simulation written in Go, featuring a simple and hacky TUI interface.

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Streaming Music

Blarock – simple music player

December 11, 2025 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews

Linux offers a huge array of open source music players. And many of them are high quality. Blarock is a new addition.

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File Managers

Tyr – intelligent file organization powered by machine learning

December 11, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Tyr is a fast file organizer built in Rust that automatically categorizes and groups your files.

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Security

MDNS Scanner – scan networks

December 11, 2025 Steve Emms Internet

MDNS Scanner scans a network and create a list of IPs and associated hostnames, including mDNS hostnames and other aliases.

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Documentation Generators

ROBODoc – automating the software documentation process

December 11, 2025 Steve Emms Programming

ROBODoc is a program documentation tool. Every function or procedure includes a standard header containing all sorts of information.

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Selection of utilities

zur – AUR helper

December 11, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

zur is just another AUR helper. The AUR is a community-driven repository for Arch Linux users that contains package build scripts.

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Real-Time Strategy Games

Ballerburg SDL – classical castle combat game

December 11, 2025 Steve Emms Games

Ballerburg SDL is a classical castle combat game for Linux and other systems that are supported by the SDL library.

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Static Site Generator

Marmite – static site generator for blogs

December 11, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Web Apps

Marmite [Markdown makes sites] is a very simple static site generator.

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Clipboard

clipsim – simple and fast X clipboard manager

December 11, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

clipsim is a clipboard manager. It retrieves clipboard text when the window owning it is closed, and keeps a clipboard history.

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