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Omnicom – graphical interface for serial communication

February 16, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Omnicom is a modern and elegant graphical interface for serial communication via picocom.

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ComChan – minimal serial monitor

February 16, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Comchan (short for “Communication Channel”) is a blazingly fast, minimal, and beginner-friendly serial monitor.

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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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Password manager

Keybox – GUI password manager

February 15, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Keybox is a minimal, encrypted, local password manager written in GDScript.

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Monitoring

struct – smarter tree command

February 15, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

struct is a smarter tree command built in Rust, focused on presenting clean, meaningful project structure.

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Files

batdoc – cat for Office documents and PDFs

February 15, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Documents

batdoc dumps .doc, .docx, .xls, .xlsx, .pptx, and .pdf files to your terminal as markdown.

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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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Text Editor

sled – simple text editor

February 15, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, TUI

sled is a simple text editor with a terminal UI.

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Bookmark manager tool

Betula – self-hosted personal link collection manager

February 15, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, Web Apps

Betula is a single-user self-hosted federated bookmark manager with Fediverse support and archives.

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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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Music visualization

OpenMeters – audio metering/visualization program

February 14, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

OpenMeters is a fast and simple audio metering application for Linux, built with Rust and PipeWire. It’s in active development.

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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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vizex

mcdu – disk usage analyzer

February 13, 2026 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

mcdu is a fast, modern disk usage analyzer with an integrated developer cleanup tool. Think ncdu meets CCleaner for developers.

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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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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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