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Gopherbook – self-hosted comic library and CBZ/CBT reader

January 30, 2026 Steve Emms Other

Gopherbook is a lightweight, single-binary, self-hosted web comic reader and library manager written in Go.

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Git Clients

Beads – distributed, git-backed graph issue tracker for AI agents

January 30, 2026 Steve Emms Programming

Beads provides a persistent, structured memory for coding agents. It replaces messy markdown plans with a dependency-aware graph

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Selection of utilities

oq – terminal-based OpenAPI Spec (OAS) viewer

January 30, 2026 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

oq is a terminal-based OpenAPI Spec (OAS) viewer. It’s written in the Go language.

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Network

Gruyère – view and kill processes listening on ports

January 30, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, TUI

Gruyère is a tiny TUI program for viewing and killing processes listening on ports.

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jolt – terminal-based battery and energy monitor

January 30, 2026 Steve Emms System Software, TUI

jolt provides real-time insights into power consumption, process energy usage, and battery health—all in a clean, themeable TUI.

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todds – CPU-based DDS texture encoder

January 28, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

todds is a CPU-based DDS texture encoder optimized for fast batch conversions with high encoding quality.

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dmitui – TUI version of dmidecode

January 28, 2026 Steve Emms System Software, TUI

dmitui is a TUI (Text User Interface) version that allows for easy navigation between sections, unlike dmidecode.

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Music Streaming

Kino – media browser for Plex and Jellyfin servers

January 28, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia, TUI

Kino is a fast terminal client for browsing and playing media from Plex and Jellyfin servers.

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Media Center

jfsh – terminal-based client for Jellyfin

January 28, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia, TUI

jfsh is a terminal-based client for Jellyfin that lets you browse your media library and play videos via mpv. It’s inspired by jftui.

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Video Conversion

video-compare – split-screen video comparison tool

January 28, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

video-compare is a split-screen video comparison tool, utilizing FFmpeg libraries and SDL2.

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Selection of utilities

LiDM – light login manager

January 27, 2026 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

LiDM is a really light unix login manager made in C which aims to be highly customizable

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ugdb – TUI for gdb

January 27, 2026 Steve Emms Programming, TUI

ugdb is an unsegen based alternative TUI for gdb.

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Network

Gurren – SSH tunnel manager

January 27, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Internet, TUI

Gurren is a fast, terminal-based SSH tunnel manager with a TUI and background service.

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Notes

LinNote – keyboard-driven scratchpad

January 27, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

LinNote is a fast, keyboard-driven scratchpad for Linux. It’s built for KDE Plasma with Qt6.

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Arsse – Advanced RSS Environment

January 27, 2026 Steve Emms Internet

The Arsse is a news aggregator server, written in PHP, which implements multiple synchronization protocols.

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tcpulse – load generator

January 26, 2026 Steve Emms Internet

tcpulse is a concurrent TCP/UDP load generator with fine-grained, flow-level control over connection establishment and data transfer.

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Kafka – distributed event streaming platform

January 26, 2026 Steve Emms Internet

Apache Kafka is a distributed event streaming platform for high-performance data pipelines, streaming analytics, data integration.

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Network

AWSM – AWS manager

January 26, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

AWSM is billed as a powerful CLI tool to simplify working with AWS profiles, credentials, and sessions.

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Education

Relational – educational tool for relational algebra

January 26, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Education, GUI

Relational is an educational tool to provide a workspace for experimenting with relational algebra, an offshoot of first-order logic.

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whatstyle – find a code format style

January 25, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

whatstyle finds a code format style that fits given source files.

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