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Excellent Utilities: lnav – the log file navigator

April 22, 2019 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, System Software, Utilities

This is the second in a new series highlighting best-of-breed utilities. We’ll be covering a wide range of utilities including tools that boost your productivity, help you manage your workflow, and lots more besides. For this article, we’ll put lnav under the spotlight.

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Xmas

LinuxLinks: Our most-read stories of 2018

December 24, 2018 Steve Emms Software, System Software

It’s common knowledge that Christmas is a time for merriment, goodwill to all people, and above all a time for lists. So there’s no better time to compile a roundup for the year. We’ve run through our statistics, and found our ten most well received posts that saw the highest page views this year.

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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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Laser cutting

Inkcut – control 2D plotters, cutters, engravers and CNC machines

February 10, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Scientific

Inkcut is an application for controlling 2D plotters, cutters, engravers, and CNC machines.

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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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Selection of utilities

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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YouTube

tuitube – TUI to download videos

February 9, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia, TUI

tuitube is a TUI to download videos from YouTube, 𝕏, Twitch, Instagram, Bilibili and more using yt-dlp CLI.

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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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Git Clients

Branchlet – create and manage Git worktrees

February 9, 2026 Steve Emms Programming, TUI

Branchlet is a interactive CLI tool for creating and managing Git worktrees with an easy to use interface.

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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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Text Editor

Toney – terminal based note taking app

February 8, 2026 Steve Emms Productivity, TUI

Toney is a fast, lightweight, terminal-based note-taking app for the modern developer. Built with Bubbletea, it brings a sleek TUI interface.

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Graphics card

Gale – lightweight Thunderstore client

February 8, 2026 Steve Emms Games, GUI

Gale is a modern and lightweight mod manager for Thunderstore, built with Svelte and Tauri.

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Best Free and Open Source Compact Editors

v2 – rich-text editor

February 8, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, GUI

v2 is a local-first rich-text editor with versioning capabilities.

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Technology

Rooks – steganographic tool

February 8, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Security

Rook Stego is a steganographic tool that implements some of the most advanced hiding methods.

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Selection of utilities

Celerator – TUI to debug and monitor Celery tasks

February 8, 2026 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

Celerator is a TUI (Text User Interface) application for debugging and monitoring Celery tasks in real time.

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