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ansi-colors – add ANSI colors to terminal text

December 28, 2024 Eilidih Parris CLI, Programming

ansi-colors is a fast Node.js library for terminal styling. It’s billed as a more performant drop-in replacement for chalk, with no dependencies.

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File Managers

Treemacs – tree layout file explorer for Emacs

December 28, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity, Utilities

Treemacs is a file and project explorer similar to NeoTree or vim’s NerdTree, but largely inspired by the Project Explorer in Eclipse.

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vim-tree – use tree for quick navigation

December 27, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

vim-tree integrates good old tree into Vim and Nvim for all common operating systems.

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Logseq – privacy-first platform for knowledge management and collaboration

December 26, 2024 Steve Emms Productivity

logseq is a privacy-first, open-source knowledge management and note-taking software designed to enhance productivity

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Hop – terminal based file explorer

December 23, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity, Utilities

Hop is a terminal based file explorer designed to be fast, simple and user friendly. Hop runs on any operating system.

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Blaze UI – framework-free UI toolkit

December 22, 2024 Steve Emms Web Apps

Blaze UI provides structure for building websites quickly with a scalable and maintainable foundation.

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Deepin Picker – simple color picker

December 22, 2024 Steve Emms Graphics

Deepin Picker is billed as the simplest color picker.

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talking-clock – highly configurable talking clock

December 22, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity

talking-clock is a highly configurable clock written in bash with soundpack and voice options. It’s written in Bash.

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Web Content Management Systems

Vrite – collaborative developer content platform

December 22, 2024 Steve Emms Web Apps

Vrite is a collaborative space to create, manage, and deploy product documentation, technical blogs, and knowledge bases.

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Find Duplicates

littleutils – utilities for file compression, file manipulation, text cleanup

December 21, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

littleutils include duplicate file finders, image optimizers, file rename tools, archive recompressors, a tempfile utility, and others.

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kleur – Node.js library for formatting terminal text with ANSI colors

December 21, 2024 Eilidih Parris Programming

kleur bills itself as the fastest Node.js library for formatting terminal text with ANSI colors. It’s written in JavaScript.

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Shutdown

Shutdown Scheduler – schedule shutdown and restart tasks

December 21, 2024 Steve Emms Utilities

Shutdown Scheduler is a simple cross-platform application that uses system utilities for scheduling shutdown and restart tasks.

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Coding

Spyder – The Scientific Python Development Environment

December 21, 2024 Steve Emms Programming

Spyder (previously known as Pydee) is a Python development environment providing MATLAB-like features in a simple and lightweight program.

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picocolors – tiny and fast library for terminal output formatting

December 20, 2024 Eilidih Parris Programming

picocolors is billed as the tiniest and the fastest library for terminal output formatting with ANSI colors.

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gtree – generate trees and directories

December 19, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

gtree is a CLI-based utility which uses Markdown to generate directory trees and directories itself, and also verifies directories.

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Writing Tools

Skribisto – writing tool for Linux

December 19, 2024 Steve Emms Documents

Skribisto project manager and rich text editor for writers in a quest of a complete, yet simple, way of writing and organizing their work.

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Files

lscoltui – change the colors of ls

December 19, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

lscoltui is a TUI program that lets you configure the colors of ls.

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sty – string styling for your terminal

December 19, 2024 Eilidih Parris CLI, Programming

Sty provides a simple, customizable and performant string styling markup, which is decoupled from color palettes and terminal implementations.

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as-tree – print a list of paths as a tree of paths

December 18, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

as-tree is a command-line utility that prints a list of paths as a tree of paths. It’s written in Rust.

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Archive Manager

zpaqfranz – deduplicating archiver with encryption and paranoid-level tests

December 18, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

zpaqfranz is a deduplicating archiver with encryption and paranoid-level tests.

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