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Files

FAT – modern TUI-based file and archive viewer

February 3, 2026 Steve Emms Productivity, TUI, Utilities

FAT is designed for developers and power users who want to quickly inspect files and peek inside archives.

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Network

Vortix – terminal UI for WireGuard and OpenVPN

February 3, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, TUI

Vortix is a terminal UI for WireGuard and OpenVPN with real-time telemetry and leak guarding.

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Interactive Whiteboard

pad.ws – whiteboard as an IDE

February 3, 2026 Steve Emms Education, Web Apps

pad.ws is a whiteboard app that acts as a dev environment in your browser. It uses Excalidraw for the whiteboard interface

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ktea – Kafka terminal client

February 2, 2026 Steve Emms Internet

ktea is a tool designed to simplify and accelerate interactions with Kafka clusters.

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ebook reader

Lue – terminal eBook reader with text-to-speech

February 2, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, TUI

Lue is a terminal eBook Reader with audiobook-quality Text-to-Speech.

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XMPP

wstunnel – tunnel traffic over Websocket or HTTP2

February 2, 2026 Steve Emms Internet

wstunnel uses the websocket protocol which is compatible with http in order to bypass firewalls and proxies.

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Database

tongo – TUI for MongoDB

February 2, 2026 Steve Emms Database, TUI

tongo is a fast and keyboard-driven TUI for MongoDB. Navigate and manipulate your data without leaving your terminal.

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8N1Term – serial terminal

February 2, 2026 Steve Emms Utilities

8N1Term is billed as a next-generation serial terminal that removes ASCII table lookup.

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process

Hexus – process manager

February 2, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Hexus is a process manager built using .NET 10 designed to work on Linux and Windows seamlessly.

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HTTP

httpx – fast and multi-purpose HTTP toolkit

February 1, 2026 Steve Emms Internet

httpx is a fast and multi-purpose HTTP toolkit that allows running multiple probes using the retryablehttp library.

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Selection of utilities

Anvil – streamline tool installation and team onboarding

February 1, 2026 Steve Emms System Software

Install the tools you need, sync your configs, and keep your environment consistent with a single command-line tool.

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Linux software

Best Free and Open Source Software: January 2026 Updates

February 1, 2026 Steve Emms Software

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

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WiFi

YuFi – lightweight Wi-Fi manager

February 1, 2026 Steve Emms Internet

YuFi is a lightweight GTK4 Wi‑Fi manager. It focuses on a clean, minimal dashboard for quick toggles, scanning, and network management.

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Selection of utilities

Stratis – local storage management

February 1, 2026 Steve Emms Utilities

Stratis is a tool to easily configure pools and filesystems with enhanced storage functionality.

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Coding

Scalene – memory profiler

February 1, 2026 Steve Emms Programming

Scalene is a high-performance, high-precision CPU, GPU, and memory profiler for Python with AI-powered optimization proposals.

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ZLint – opinionated linter

January 31, 2026 Steve Emms Programming

ZLint is an opinionated linter for the Zig programming language.

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RAW Tools

luffy – watch movies and TV from the command-line

January 31, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

luffy is billed as a spiritual successor of flix-cli and mov-cli. It’s cross-platform software written in the Go language.

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Spreadsheets

VisiGrid – local-first spreadsheet

January 31, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Office

VisiGrid prioritizes speed, correctness, and keyboard-driven workflows over cloud lock-in and opaque automation.

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colorstorm – TUI to generate color themes for Vim, VSCode, and Sublime

January 31, 2026 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

colorstorm is a command line TUI to generate color themes for Vim, VSCode, and Sublime.

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Selection of utilities

par2cmdline – PAR 2.0 compatible file verification and repair tool

January 31, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

par2cmdline is a program for creating and using PAR2 files to detect damage in data files and repair them if necessary.

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