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Selection of utilities

shpool – service that enables session persistence

March 13, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

shpool is a service that enables session persistence by allowing the creation of named shell sessions owned by shpool.

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peek-cli – CLI tool that opens a file or folder in your browser

March 12, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

peek-cli is a tiny Rust command-line tool that lets you instantly preview any file directly in your default web browser.

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Selection of utilities

Archium – wrapper for AUR helpers

March 12, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Archium is a CLI tool for managing packages on Arch Linux. It provides a simple and intuitive interface for common package management tasks

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Security

Bao – verified streaming tool

March 11, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Security

Bao is an implementation of BLAKE3 verified streaming, as described in Section 6.4 of the BLAKE3 spec.

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Cryfa – encryption tool for genomic data

March 11, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Scientific, Security

Cryfa is an encryption tool specifically designed for genomic data.

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samply – sampling CPU profiler

March 11, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

samply is a sampling CPU profiler. Run a command, record a CPU profile of its execution, and open the profiler UI.

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Feluda – detect license usage restrictions

March 11, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

Feluda detects license usage restrictions in your project.

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Essential Utilities to Boost Producitivity

bigsay – display tool

March 11, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

bigsay is a high-visibility GTK4 text display tool written in the Python language.

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Selection of utilities

doot – simple dotfiles manager

March 10, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

doot is billed as a fast, simple and intuitive dotfiles manager that just gets the job done.

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YouTube

musicfetch-ng – download and tag music from YouTube

March 10, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

With Musicfetch you can use the power of yt-dlp to search for Albums, Songs or Playlists, download them.

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Selection of utilities

Arf – fzf Pacman wrapper and AUR helper

March 10, 2026 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

Arf is an fzf Pacman wrapper and AUR helper written in Python.

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Files

Deletor – file deletion tool

March 9, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, TUI, Utilities

Deletor is a file deletion tool that combines a powerful text interface with visual directory navigation, and classic command line mode.

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Selection of utilities

Launcher Studio – create and manage .desktop files

March 9, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Launcher Studio is a GTK4 desktop application for creating and managing .desktop files on Linux.

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pj – project finder CLI

March 9, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

pj is a fast project directory finder that searches your filesystem for git repositories and project directories.

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Hard disk

Vykar – fast, encrypted, deduplicated backups in Rust

March 8, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, System Software, Web Apps

Vykar is a backup utility that creates encrypted, deduplicated snapshots of data and stores them in local or remote repositories.

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Hypervisors

vm-curator – manage desktop QEMU/KVM virtual machines

March 8, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, TUI

vm-curator is a fast and friendly Rust TUI for managing desktop QEMU/KVM virtual machines with 3D acceleration.

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Recaf – Java bytecode editor

March 8, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Programming

Recaf is an easy to use modern Java bytecode editor that abstracts away the complexities of Java programs.

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Security

PMG – package manager guard

March 8, 2026 Steve Emms Programming

Package Manager Guard (PMG) protects developers from getting compromised by malicious packages.

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Go XML Formatter – format XML

March 7, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

The Go XML Formatter, xmlfmt, will format the XML string in a readable way.

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Conan – distributed C and C++ package manager

March 7, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

Conan is specifically designed and optimized for accelerating the development and Continuous Integration of C and C++ projects.

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