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Ghostty – feature-rich and cross-platform terminal emulator

January 6, 2025 Steve Emms Productivity

Ghostty is a fast, feature-rich, and cross-platform terminal emulator that uses platform-native UI and GPU acceleration.

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ns-3 – discrete-event network simulator

January 6, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

ns-3 is a discrete-event network simulator for Internet systems, targeted primarily for research and educational use.

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Sly – friendly image editor

January 6, 2025 Steve Emms Graphics

Sly is billed as a friendly free and open source image editor that requires no internet connection or preexisting expertise.

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croissant – stacking Wayland compositor

January 6, 2025 Steve Emms Desktop

croissant is a stacking Wayland compositor that’s written in the C programming language.

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File Managers

kupo – terminal file browser

January 5, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity, Utilities

kupo is a terminal file browser written in Python.

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Cooja – network simulator

January 5, 2025 Steve Emms Internet

Cooja is a network simulator that’s written in Java.

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getparty – HTTP download manager with multi-parts

January 5, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

getparty is free and open source software written in Go.

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Chordcat – chord naming program

January 5, 2025 Steve Emms Multimedia

Chordcat is a desktop app that helps you identify and name chords based on inputted notes.

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Encryption software

Lock – process data with GnuPG

January 5, 2025 Steve Emms Security

Lock is a graphical front-end for GnuPG (GPG) making use of an attractive LibAdwaita GUI.

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delicolour – lightweight colour finder

January 5, 2025 Steve Emms Graphics

delicolour is a lightweight colour finder written in Python.

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Files

nvim-tree – file explorer for Neovim

January 5, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity, Utilities

nvim-tree.lua is a file explorer / filesystem tree view plugin for Neovim. It’s written in Lua.

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hiSHtory – better shell history

January 3, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

hiSHtory is a better shell history. It stores your shell history in context.

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Image of Files

xplr – hackable, minimal, fast TUI file explorer

January 3, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity, Utilities

xplr is a terminal UI based file explorer that aims to increase your terminal productivity. It’s written in Rust.

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Find

Bevel – command line history in an SQLite database

January 3, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Bevel is a tool which offers command line history in an SQLite database for effective re-use.

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Circuit board

rtfetch – Neofetch but in Rust

January 3, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

rtfetch is a command-line system information tool. It’s a clone of neofetch but written in Rust.

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Files

browsr – file explorer in your terminal

January 3, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

browsr is a a pleasant file explorer in your terminal supporting all filesystems.

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Compositing Window Managers

Jay – Wayland compositor

January 2, 2025 Steve Emms Desktop

Jay is a Wayland compositor which offers an i3 look and feel.

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File Managers

Rust-Traverse – terminal based file explorer

January 2, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity, Utilities

Rust-Traverse is a terminal based file explorer. It is inspired by the NNN file manager. It uses Ratatui for the terminal UI.

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Network

Dynamips – emulate Cisco routers

January 2, 2025 Steve Emms Internet

Dynamips is an emulator computer program that was written to emulate Cisco routers.

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Circuit board

NerdFetch – fetch script using Nerdfonts

January 2, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, System Software

NerdFetch is a simple shell script which fetches information about your system.

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