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Selection of utilities

Celerator – TUI to debug and monitor Celery tasks

February 8, 2026 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

Celerator is a TUI (Text User Interface) application for debugging and monitoring Celery tasks in real time.

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Log Analyzers

goxe – log reduction tool

February 7, 2026 Steve Emms System Software

goxe is a high-performance log reduction tool. It ingests logs (currently via syslog/udp), normalizes and filters them

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Selection of utilities

dekl – declarative package and dotfile management for Arch Linux

February 7, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

dekl allows you to define your system’s packages and configuration in YAML files, making your setup reproducible and version-controllable.

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DailyDash – head-up display for developers

February 7, 2026 Steve Emms Programming, TUI

DailyDash is a terminal-based “Head-Up Display” (HUD) designed for focus-driven developers.

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Bookmark manager

Libro – terminal based book tracking tool

February 7, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Documents, TUI

Libro is a terminal-based tool to track your reading history, with your data stored locally in a SQLite database.

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Messaging

marchat – terminal chat

February 7, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, TUI

marchat is a lightweight terminal chat with real-time messaging over WebSockets, optional E2E encryption, and a flexible plugin ecosystem.

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Chess

Fastchess – manage chess games with engines

February 6, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Games

Fastchess is a command-line tool designed to manage and orchestrate chess games between engines.

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Notes

Basalt – TUI program to manage Obsidian notes

February 6, 2026 Steve Emms Productivity, TUI

Basalt is a TUI application to manage Obsidian vaults and notes directly from the terminal.

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Linux Candy

Linux Candy: sigye – terminal clock

February 6, 2026 Steve Emms Productivity, Reviews, TUI

sigye is a terminal clock with ASCII art fonts. The name “sigye” (시계) means “clock” in Korean. It also offers Pomodoro functionality

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Database

Goose – database migration tool

February 6, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Database, Documents

Goose is a database migration tool. Both a CLI and a library. Manage your database schema by creating incremental SQL changes or Go functions.

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Screen Capture

grabIT – screenshot and screen recorder script

February 6, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

grabIT is billed as a versatile screenshot, screen recording, and file uploader with OCR support for multiple services.

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T – text processing language and utility

February 5, 2026 Steve Emms Programming

t is a concise language for manipulating text, replacing common usage patterns of Unix utilities like grep, sed, cut, awk, sort, and uniq.

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Whosthere – Local Area Network discovery tool

February 5, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, TUI

Whosthere is a Local Area Network discovery tool with a modern Terminal User Interface (TUI) written in Go.

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qui – qBittorrent web UI

February 5, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, Web Apps

qui is a fast, modern web interface for qBittorrent. It manages multiple qBittorrent instances from a single, lightweight application.

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pproftui – terminal-based diagnostic tool

February 5, 2026 Steve Emms Programming, TUI

pproftui is a terminal-based UI for Go’s pprof that makes profiling interactive, intuitive, and fast.

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Text Editor

pnana – modern terminal text editor

February 4, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, TUI

pnana is a modern terminal text editor built with FTXUI, inspired by Nano, Micro, and Sublime Text.

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ASROCK NUC BOX-255H Running Linux

ASRock Industrial NUC BOX-255H Running Linux: BIOS

February 4, 2026 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

In this article in the series I’ll show you many of the BIOS options that are available with the ASRock Industrial NUC BOX-255H.

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Plant

Garden Party – manage your garden

February 4, 2026 Steve Emms Web Apps

Garden Party is an application designed to help novice gardeners manage their gardens.

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ziglint – linting suite

February 3, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

ziglint searches the current directory for .zig files and lint them against the various tests in the suite.

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tredis – terminal UI for Redis

February 3, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, TUI

tredis aims to make it easier to navigate, observe, and manage your Redis data in the wild.

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