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Docker

dcv – Docker container viewer

February 13, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, TUI

DCV is a TUI (Terminal User Interface) tool for monitoring Docker containers and Docker Compose applications.

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tfjournal – record Terraform

February 13, 2026 Steve Emms Programming

tfjournal is a TUI tool to record Terraform runs with git context, timing, and resource events.

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Spreadsheets

Neoleo – lightweight curses spreadsheet

February 13, 2026 Steve Emms Office, TUI

Neoleo is a lightweight curses spreadsheet based on oleo. It uses ncurses.

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dumbpipe – create a dumb pipe between two machines

February 12, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

dumbpipe works with 256 bit endpoint ids and therefore is somewhat location transparent. In addition, connections are encrypted using TLS.

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SSD

cull – reclaim precious disk space

February 12, 2026 Steve Emms Reviews, TUI, Utilities

cull is a program written in Go that helps you clean up your system. It’s a lovely small utility. Give it a whirl!

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Linux Distributions

Essora Eos – minimal Devuan based Linux distribution

February 12, 2026 Erik Karlsson Distro

Essora Eos is a minimalist Linux distribution based on Devuan excalibur, designed to be lightweight, fast, and fully customizable.

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Hermes – package manager for Arch Linux

February 12, 2026 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

Hermes is billed as a beautiful TUI package manager for Arch Linux.

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accel-php – PPTP/L2TP/SSTP/PPPoE/IPoE server

February 12, 2026 Steve Emms System Software

ACCEL-PPP is a completely new implementation of PPTP/PPPoE/L2TP/SSTP which was written from scratch.

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Alaska

revela – static image gallery generator

February 11, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

revela is a static web image gallery generator. It optimizes images for the web and generates HTML files to create a photo/image gallery.

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Selection of utilities

Shelly – modern Arch package manager

February 11, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Shelly is a modern reimagination of the Arch Linux package manager, designed to be a user-friendly alternative to pacman and octopi.

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ziglint – code analysis tool

February 10, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

ziglint is a configurable code analysis tool for Zig codebases.

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Network

NetSonar – network diagnostics tool

February 10, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

NetSonar is a network diagnostics tool for pinging hosts, managing network interfaces, and discovering local devices/services.

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Essential Utilities to Boost Producitivity

ghorg – clone or backup entire repositories

February 10, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

Use ghorg to quickly clone all of an orgs, or users repos into a single directory.

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CRM

JiraTUI – Atlassian Jira from your shell

February 10, 2026 Steve Emms Office, TUI

JiraTUI is a Text User Interface (TUI) for interacting with Atlassian Jira directly from your shell.

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preset – save and run command presets

February 10, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

preset is a program for managing and running command sequences at once, so you don’t have to manually type your commands.

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Selection of utilities

cmdperf – interactive command performance benchmarking

February 9, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

cmdperf is a terminal tool designed to quickly measure, compare, and understand the performance characteristics of shell commands.

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Game Engines

TuxTuner – Wayland-native performance control for ASUS gaming laptops

February 9, 2026 Steve Emms Games, GUI

TuxTuner is a Wayland-native performance control for ASUS gaming laptops on Linux.

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Selection of utilities

qdia – schematic/diagram editor

February 9, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

qia is a simple schematic/diagram editor with focus on quick diagram generation with high quality graphics.

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Selection of utilities

grepai – CLI for semantic code search

February 9, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

grepai is a privacy-first CLI for semantic code search. It uses vector embeddings to understand code meaning.

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Network

webchanges – checks web content

February 8, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

webchanges anonymously checks web content and commands for changes, delivering instant notifications and AI-powered summaries.

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