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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: df

December 5, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Software, Utilities

This article spotlights alternative tools to df, a utility that reports file system space usage in Linux and other UNIX operating systems.

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Gaming Chat

Rivet – terminal UI Discord client

December 5, 2025 Steve Emms Internet, TUI

Rivet is a terminal UI Discord client written in Rust. It’s in an early stage of development.

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Security

AVML – Acquire Volatile Memory for Linux

December 5, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Security

AVML is an X86_64 userland volatile memory acquisition tool written in Rust, intended to be deployed as a static binary.

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Selection of utilities

makeself – make self-extractable archives

December 5, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

makeself.sh is a small shell script to create self-extracting tar.gz archives.

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Coding

Infer – static analyzer for Java, C, C++, and Objective-C

December 4, 2025 Eilidih Parris CLI, Programming

Infer is a static analysis tool for Java, C++, Objective-C, and C. Infer is written in OCaml.

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System administration

dnst – DNS administration toolbox for zone operators

December 4, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

dnst is a Rust DNS administration toolbox for zone operators, providing DNSSEC, NOTIFY and dynamic update utilities with ldns emulation.

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dusage – command-line disk usage information tool

December 4, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

dusage is a command line disk usage information tool written in the Rust programming language.

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Vulnerability Detection

Trivy – comprehensive and versatile security scanner

December 4, 2025 Steve Emms Security

Trivy is a comprehensive and versatile security scanner. It looks for security issues, and targets where it can find those issues.

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Web

Ping Monitor – simple ping application

December 4, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Ping Monitor is a simple ping application that displays real-time ping times to a specified host using a Deno backend.

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Platform Games

Clone Dash – clone of Muse Dash game

December 4, 2025 Steve Emms Games

Clone Dash is a cross-platform clone of Muse Dash, a parkour-rhythm game combination.

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Big Data

InvoicePlane – self-hosting invoicing for freelancers and small businesses

December 4, 2025 Steve Emms Financial

InvoicePlane is a self-hosted open source application for managing your quotes, invoices, clients and payments.

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Selection of utilities

SearXNG – privacy-respecting, hackable metasearch engine

December 4, 2025 Steve Emms Internet

SearXNG is a free and open source internet metasearch engine which aggregates results from up to 247 search services.

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Speech

ostt – Open Speech-to-Text

December 4, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

ostt is an interactive terminal-based audio recording and speech-to-text transcription tool

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Network Analyzers

Network Monitor – real-time network connection monitoring tool

December 4, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Internet, Security

Network Monitor is real-time network connection monitoring tool displaying active connections with live I/O statistics

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Music

TUISIC – simple TUI online music streaming software

December 4, 2025 Steve Emms Multimedia, Reviews, TUI

TUISIC is a simple TUI online music streaming application written in C++ with vim keybindings.

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Application Launchers

dtsl – Dustin’s Simple TUI Launcher

December 4, 2025 Steve Emms Desktop, TUI

dtsl is a fast, keyboard-driven application launcher for the terminal with fuzzy search and extensive theming support.

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Photo Gallery

MyPhotoShare – static web photo, audio and video gallery

December 4, 2025 Steve Emms Web Apps

MyPhotoShare is a static web photo, audio and video gallery with advanced features.

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Web Browsers

Iocaine – defense mechanism against unwanted scrapers

December 4, 2025 Steve Emms Internet

Iocaine is a defense mechanism against unwanted scrapers, sitting between upstream resources and the fronting reverse proxy.

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NullAway – eliminate NPEs in Java code

December 4, 2025 Eilidih Parris CLI, Programming

NullAway is a tool that offers fast annotation-based null checking for Java.

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process

Tuckr – replacement for Stow

December 4, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Tuckr is a dotfile manager inspired by Stow and Git. Tuckr aims to make dotfile management less painful.

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