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DankMaterialShell – desktop shell

December 23, 2025 Steve Emms Desktop

DankMaterialShell is a complete desktop shell for niri, Hyprland, MangoWC, Sway, labwc, and other Wayland compositors.

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Selection of utilities

hyprdrover – lightweight session manager for the Hyprland compositor

December 23, 2025 Steve Emms Desktop, Utilities

hyprdrover allows users to snapshot their current window layout (workspaces, positions, and sizes) and restore it later.

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ascii-chat – video chat in your terminal

December 23, 2025 Steve Emms Multimedia, TUI

ascii-chat is a client-server application that operates over TCP/IP with color and audio and crypto and compression and multiple clients.

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lintr – static code analysis for R

December 22, 2025 Eilidih Parris Programming

lintr analyses R scripts and packages for style problems, syntax issues and suspicious code using configurable checks and editor support.

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Command Schedulers

Cronboard – terminal-based dashboard for managing cron jobs

December 22, 2025 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

Cronboard is a terminal application that allows you to manage and schedule cronjobs on local and remote servers.

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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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Machine Learning in Linux

GPTScript – build AI assistants that interact with your systems

December 22, 2025 Steve Emms Scientific

GPTScript is a framework that allows Large Language Models (LLMs) to operate and interact with various systems.

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Machine Learning in Linux

Pipelex – declarative language for composable Al workflows

December 22, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Scientific

Pipelex is an open-source language that enables agents to build and run repeatable AI workflows.

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hsh – better shell

December 22, 2025 Steve Emms Utilities

hsh is a slightly different take on your shell. It’s closer to a user agent than you standard POSIX shell.

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Log Analyzers

phos – log colorizer

December 22, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

phos is a fast, portable log colorizer written in the Rust language.

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Rusticon – favicon editor

December 22, 2025 Steve Emms Graphics, TUI

Rusticon is a mouse driven SVG favicon editor for your terminal.

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PHP Coding Standards Fixer – automatically fix PHP coding style

December 22, 2025 Eilidih Parris CLI, Programming

PHP Coding Standards Fixer checks and automatically corrects PHP formatting, coding standards and migration rules across entire projects.

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PHPStan – PHP static analysis tool

December 22, 2025 Eilidih Parris CLI, Programming

PHPStan analyses PHP code without executing it, detecting type errors, undefined symbols and other defects with configurable rule levels.

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PHP_CodeSniffer – PHP coding standards checker

December 22, 2025 Eilidih Parris CLI, Programming

PHP_CodeSniffer checks PHP coding standards with configurable sniffs and rulesets, and fixes many violations using its phpcbf tool.

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PHPLint – fast parallel PHP syntax checker

December 22, 2025 Eilidih Parris CLI, Programming

PHPLint checks PHP syntax in parallel, with result caching, flexible file selection and reports suitable for continuous integration.

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System administration

gasroot – run a process as the root user

December 21, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, Utilities

gasroot launches authorized commands as root through a graphical password prompt, with wheel-group checks and environment controls.

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Files

mdq – select and render specific elements in a Markdown document

December 21, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Documents

mdq aims to do for Markdown what jq does for JSON: provide an easy way to zero in on specific parts of a document.

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Flay – analyzes code for structural similarities

December 21, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

Flay analyzes code for structural similarities. Differences in literal values, variable, class, method names, whitespace …

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Sports Games

mlbt – TUI for the MLB Statcast API

December 21, 2025 Steve Emms Games, TUI

mlbt is a terminal user interface for the MLB Statcast API, with the intention of providing a light weight way to consume baseball data.

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Internet

Superseedr – terminal BitTorrent client

December 21, 2025 Steve Emms Internet, TUI

Superseedr is a terminal BitTorrent client with swarm heatmaps, live transfer statistics, persistent sessions and network interface binding.

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