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System administration

dnsperf – measure performance of authoritative domain name services

August 21, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

dnsperf and resperf are tools that make it simple to gather accurate latency and throughput metrics for Domain Name Service (DNS).

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Task Manager

Tatuin – task aggregation tool

August 21, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity, TUI

Tatuin is a task aggregation tool that allows you to manage and track your tasks from various providers in one convenient place.

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Password Managers

FMP – password manager written in memory-safe Rust

August 21, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Forgot My Password (FMP) is a password manager that safely allows you to generate, store, and manage your passwords in encrypted vaults.

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Music player

multi-scrobbler – scrobble music

August 21, 2025 Steve Emms Multimedia

multi-scrobble is a JavaScript app to scrobble music you listened to, to Maloja, Last.fm, and ListenBrainz.

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Coding

Perl-Critic – static analyzer

August 21, 2025 Eilidih Parris Programming

Perl::Critic is an extensible framework for creating and applying coding standards to Perl source code.

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Dictionary Tools

rdict – offline CLI dictionary

August 20, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

rdict is an offline CLI dictionary using data from wiktionary. It’s written in the Rust programming language.

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Sessions – focus with timed work intervals

August 20, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

Sessions is a simple visual timer application for the Pomodoro technique, helping you stay productive by breaking work into focused sessions

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Documentation

Krafna – Obsidion dataview plugin-like tool for command line

August 20, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Documents

Krafna is a terminal-based alternative to Obsidian’s Dataview plugin, allowing you to query your Markdown files using standard SQL syntax.

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Music

rescrobbled – music scrobbler daemon

August 20, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

rescrobbled is a music scrobbler daemon. It detects active media players running on D-Bus using MPRIS

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Sports Games

99Managers Futsal Edition – futsal team-management game

August 20, 2025 Steve Emms Games

99Managers Futsal Edition is an open-source sports management game, where you control every aspect of a Futsal team

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Files

render – command line reader offering better readability of web pages

August 19, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Documents

reader is a lightweight tool offering better readability of web pages on the CLI. It’s written in the Go language.

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Pomolin – minimalist Pomodoro timer

August 19, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

Pomolin is billed as a simple, beautiful, and minimalist Pomodoro timer for your desktop.

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Selection of utilities

kplay – inspect messages in a Kafka topic

August 19, 2025 Steve Emms Utilities

kplay (short for “kafka-playground”) lets you inspect messages in a Kafka topic in a simple and deliberate manner.

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Selection of utilities

Moulti – assign visual collapsible blocks

August 19, 2025 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

Moulti enables you to assign the numerous lines emitted by your scripts to “steps”, i.e. visual, collapsible blocks

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Files

nbpreview – terminal viewer for Jupyter notebooks

August 19, 2025 Steve Emms Documents

nbpreview is a terminal viewer for Jupyter notebooks. It’s like cat for ipynb files. It’s written in Python.

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OpenAPI Linter – CLI and a Node.js library

August 18, 2025 Eilidih Parris CLI, Programming

OpenAPI Linter is a CLI and a Node.js library to validate OpenAPI specification. It is based on Spectral by Stoplight with OpenAPI rules with additional rules. The goal of Linter is to check whether the spec contains enough information to

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Cherrybomb – audit, validate, run API tests

August 18, 2025 Eilidih Parris CLI, Programming

Cherrybomb helps prevent incorrect code implementation. It works by validating and testing your API using an OpenAPI file.

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cambd – Cambridge dictionary CLI app

August 18, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

cambd is a Cambridge dictionary cli app which can automatically suggests related words when a typo is detected.

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Files

DF-SHOW – Directory File Show

August 18, 2025 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

DF-SHOW (Directory File Show) is a Unix-like rewrite of some of the applications from Larry Kroeker’s DF-EDIT

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Comic Books

ACBR – comic book reader and converter

August 18, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Other

ACBR is a cross-platform comic book reader and converter.

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