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flux – search, monitor, and nuke processes

February 19, 2026 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

flux strips away the clutter and focuses on what matters: quickly finding, monitoring, and acting on processes.

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Network

xfr – modern iperf3 alternative

February 18, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Internet, TUI

xfr is a modern iperf3 alternative with a live TUI, multi-client server, and QUIC support.

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Network

zrok – secure internet sharing platform

February 18, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

zrok lets you securely share web services, files, and network resources — whether they’re across the internet or your private network.

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Files

Hazelnut – automated file organizer

February 18, 2026 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

Hazelnut is a terminal-based automated file organizer inspired by Hazel.

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filebyte – list files and directories

February 17, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

filebyte is a CLI tool to list files and directories with intelligent size formatting, advanced filtering, and comprehensive file analysis.

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Selection of utilities

up – write Linux pipes

February 17, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

up (Ultimate Plumber) is a tool for writing Linux pipes in a terminal-based UI interactively, with instant live preview of command results.

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StarPSX – PlayStation 1 emulator

February 17, 2026 Steve Emms Emulators, Games, GUI

StarPSX is a PlayStation 1 emulator written in Rust. It features a native cross-platform GUI (eframe/egui) with a built-in debugger.

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Essential Utilities to Boost Producitivity

lancher – local project-template manager

February 17, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

lancher lets you store, manage, and replicate project templates from your filesystem or git repositories.

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Mastodon

tooi – text-based user interface for Mastodon, Pleroma and friends

February 16, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, TUI

tooi is a text-based user interface for Mastodon, Pleroma and friends. The name is a portmanteau of toot and TUI.

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Files

csview – csv viewer

February 16, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, TUI

csview is a high performance csv viewer with cjk/emoji support.

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Selection of utilities

Ember – minimal AUR helper

February 15, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Ember is a minimal AUR helper written in Ruby. It allows you to easily install, update, search, and remove AUR packages

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Monitoring

struct – project-focused directory tree and search utility

Updated October 30, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

struct displays focused project trees with built-in exclusions, Git status filters, file sizes, directory summaries, and path search.

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Coding

Codon – extensible Python compiler

February 15, 2026 Steve Emms Programming

Codon is a high-performance Python implementation that compiles to native machine code without any runtime overhead.

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Selection of utilities

Ly – display manager

February 14, 2026 Steve Emms System Software, TUI

Ly is a lightweight TUI (ncurses-like) display manager for Linux and BSD, designed with portability in mind.

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zond – network mapping and discovery tool

February 14, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

zond is an easy to use network mapping and discovery tool.

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Coding

Bloop – build server for the Scala programming language

February 14, 2026 Steve Emms Programming

Bloop aspires to provide the best out-of-the-box experience to Scala developers and a solid platform for build tool authors

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envx – environment variable manager

February 14, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming, TUI

envx is an environment variable manager for developers, featuring an intuitive TUI and CLI.

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Sidecar – development workflow in one shell

February 14, 2026 Steve Emms Programming, TUI

Sidecar puts your entire development workflow in one shell: plan tasks with td, chat with AI agents, review diffs, stage commits, and more.

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mcdu – disk usage analyzer and developer cleanup tool

Updated November 3, 2026 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

mcdu combines an interactive disk usage browser with developer-cache cleanup, parallel scans, deletion safeguards and JSON audit logs.

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Data Science

moltbook-tui – TUI client for Moltbook

February 13, 2026 Steve Emms Scientific, TUI

Browse Moltbook, the social network for AI agents, from your terminal. View posts, comments, leaderboards, community stats, and updates.

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