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Mago – extremely fast PHP linter, formatter, and static analyzer

December 26, 2025 Eilidih Parris CLI, Programming

Mago is a comprehensive toolchain for PHP that helps developers write better code. Inspired by the Rust ecosystem.

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e2c – AWS EC2 Terminal UI Manager

December 26, 2025 Steve Emms Internet, TUI

e2c is a terminal-based UI application for managing AWS EC2 instances, inspired by k9s for Kubernetes and e1s for ECS.

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ktfmt – pretty-prints (formats) Kotlin code

December 25, 2025 Eilidih Parris Programming

ktfmt is a program that pretty-prints (formats) Kotlin code, based on google-java-format.

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Notes

SpeedyNote – simple note app

December 25, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

SpeedyNote is a lightweight, fast, and stylus-optimized note-taking app built for classic tablet PCs, low-resolution screens, and old hardware

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Kotlinter Gradle – plugin for linting and formatting

December 25, 2025 Eilidih Parris Programming

Painless Gradle plugin for linting and formatting Kotlin source files using the awesome ktlint engine.

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Coding

Konsist – static code analyzer tailored for Kotlin

December 25, 2025 Eilidih Parris CLI, Programming

Konsist is a linter that guards the consistency of Kotlin projects by enforcing a cohesive code structure and unified architecture.

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Files

mdfried – Markdown viewer

December 25, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, TUI

mdfried is a markdown viewer for the terminal that renders headers as Bigger Text than the rest.

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ebook reader

Bookokrat – terminal-based EPUB reader

December 25, 2025 Steve Emms Documents

Bookokrat is a terminal-based EPUB reader with a split-view library and reader, full MathML and image rendering

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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft

WinBoat – Windows for penguins

December 25, 2025 Steve Emms GUI

WinBoat is an Electron app which allows you to run Windows apps on Linux using a containerized approach.

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TimeMap – personal knowledge tool

December 25, 2025 Steve Emms Productivity, TUI

TimeMap is a terminal-based personal knowledge management tool that combines a Calendar, Diary, Todo List, Quick Note, File Manager

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SQL

Blip – MySQL monitor

December 25, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Database, Documents

Blip is a MySQL monitor: it collects and reports metrics from MySQL to monitoring platforms like Datadog.

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Static Site Generator

Gitmal – static page generator for Git repositories

December 25, 2025 Eilidih Parris Web Apps

Gitmal is a static page generator for Git repositories. Gitmal generates static HTML pages with files, commits, code highlighting, and markdown rendering.

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Video Games

liskvork – modern multi-platform gomoku game server

December 25, 2025 Steve Emms Games

liskvork is a modern multi-platform gomoku game server that runs under Linux, *BSD, macOS, and Windows.

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Coding

sticks – modern, lightweight CLI tool for managing C and C++ projects

December 24, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

sticks is published under the MIT license.

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Network

Nekobox – GUI proxy utility

December 24, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Internet

Nekobox is a cross-platform GUI proxy utility powered by Sing-box. It supports Linux and Windows.

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Sports Games

Golazo – follow football games

December 24, 2025 Steve Emms Games, TUI

Golazo is a minimalist terminal user interface (TUI) for following football matches in real-time.

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Selection of utilities

nak – nostr army knife

December 24, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

nak is the nostr army knife command-line tool. This is free and unencumbered software released into the public domain.

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PixelTerm-C – terminal image viewer

December 24, 2025 Steve Emms Graphics, TUI

PixelTerm-C is a high-performance terminal image browser written in C, based on the Chafa library.

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Git Clients

fuss – quick staging dirty git files

December 24, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

fuss is an interactive tree utility for complete git workflows, written in modern Fortran.

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Monitoring

dirmap – tool for generating a directory map

December 24, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

dirmap is a tool for generating a directory map.

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