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Monitor System

ecscope – monitor AWS ECS resources from the terminal

March 1, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, TUI, Utilities

ecscope lets you monitor AWS ECS resources from the terminal. It provides a TUI which shows services, tasks and containers in a single view.

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Essential Utilities to Boost Producitivity

Cursus – stores your history and makes it searchable

March 1, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Cursus writes your commands into an sqlite database.

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ZGrab – application-layer network scanner

March 1, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Security

ZGrab is a fast, modular application-layer network scanner designed for completing large Internet-wide surveys.

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Best Free and Open Source Software: February 2026 Updates

March 1, 2026 Steve Emms Software

February 2026 updates to the largest compilation of recommended free and open source software available for Linux.

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ssm – SSH connection manager

March 1, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Internet, TUI

ssm is an SSH connection manager designed to connect, filter, tag, and much more from a simple terminal interface.

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Selection of utilities

taproom – TUI for Homebrew

March 1, 2026 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

taproom is a terminal user interface (TUI) for Homebrew. It provides a way to explore formulae and casks directly in your terminal.

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gotip – select and run Go tests

March 1, 2026 Steve Emms Programming, TUI

gotip is a TUI application for interactively selecting and running Go tests.

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Artistic Style – source code indenter, formatter, and beautifier

February 28, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

Artistic Style is a source code indenter, formatter, and beautifier for the C, C++, C++/CLI, Objective‑C, C# and Java programming languages.

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Linux Distributions

FLOPPINUX – embedded Linux on a single floppy

February 28, 2026 Erik Karlsson Distro

FLOPPINUX is a complete Linux distribution that fits on a single 1.44MB floppy disk. It supports all 32-bit x86 CPUs since Intel 486DX and requires only 20MB of RAM.

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Musical instruments

Audiveris – optical music recognition

February 28, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Audiveris is an optical music recognition application that’s written in the Java language.

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Monitor System

LogLens – log viewer

February 28, 2026 Steve Emms System Software, TUI

LogLens is a powerful log processing engine with an interactive Terminal UI for viewing and analyzing system logs.

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Selection of utilities

cargo-seek – search, add and install cargo crates

February 28, 2026 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

cargo-seek is a terminal user interface (TUI) for searching, adding and installing cargo crates.

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Network

bitchat-tui – TUI for BitChat

February 28, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, TUI

bitchat-tui is a modern Terminal User Interface (TUI) client for BitChat

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kat – TUI and rule-based rendering engine for Kubernetes manifests

February 27, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, TUI

kat automatically invokes manifest generators like helm or kustomize, and provides a persistent, navigable view of rendered resources

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Encrypted Files

nacrypt – file encryption program

February 27, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Security

Nacrypt is designed to be safe by design, using secure defaults for all cryptographic operations.

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Selection of utilities

SPM – simple package manager

February 27, 2026 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

SPM is a TUI wrapper for pacman and yay that makes package management visual and interactive.

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Docker

dtop – Docker TUI

February 26, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, TUI

dtop is a terminal UI for Docker container management with real-time monitoring, advanced log viewing, and comprehensive container operations.

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DevOps

BuildStream – powerful software integration tool

February 26, 2026 Steve Emms Programming

BuildStream is a powerful software integration tool that allows developers to automate the integration of software components

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WiFi

Adwaita Network – modern network manager for GNOME

February 26, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Internet

Adwaita Network offers clean WiFi and hotspot management with an Adwaita-native UI.

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Monitor System

Anteon – eBPF-based Kubernetes Monitoring and Performance Testing platform

February 26, 2026 Steve Emms Internet

Anteon (formerly Ddosify) is an eBPF-based Kubernetes Monitoring and Performance Testing platform.

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