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SQL

sqlfmt – SQL formatter

January 21, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Database, Documents

sqlfmt formats your dbt SQL files. It is similar in nature to black, gofmt, and rustfmt (but for SQL).

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Lemurs – TUI display/login manager

January 20, 2026 Steve Emms System Software, TUI

Lemurs is a Terminal User Interface (TUI) Display/Login Managers written in Rust that works on most Linux and BSD distributions.

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beekeeper-qt – deduplicate redundant data

January 20, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

beekeeper-qt lets you free up disk space by removing redundant block-level data, both inside files and across multiple files.

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Network

Realm – simple relay server

January 20, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

Realm is a simple, high performance relay server.

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System administration

RevLix – data recovery tool

January 20, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, System Software

RevLix is a data recovery tool developed to recover deleted files on Linux systems. This program uses the PhotoRec infrastructure.

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ETR – ECMP traceroute

January 20, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

ETR is a MTR-like tool for discovering and analyzing ECMP (Equal-Cost Multi-Path) network routes.

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Documents

mokii – ls replacement

January 20, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Mokii is a modern file listing utility that levels up your ls game. It brings Unicode icons, color coding, sorting options

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ttl – modern traceroute

January 20, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Internet, TUI

ttl is a network diagnostic tool that goes beyond traceroute: MTU discovery, NAT detection, route flap alerts, IX identification, and more.

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Hard drive utility

disktui – TUI for disk management and partitioning

January 20, 2026 Steve Emms System Software, TUI

disktui is a TUI for disk management and partitioning written in Rust.

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Selection of utilities

pacsea – Pacman and AUR utility

January 20, 2026 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

Pacsea is a TUI application for browsing and installing Arch and AUR packages.

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vcs2l – fork of vcstool

January 19, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

vcs2l is a fork of vcstool which is a version control system (VCS) tool, designed to make working with multiple repositories easier.

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netwhy – diagnose slow or unreliable network connections

January 18, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

netwhy is a lightweight Linux command-line tool that diagnoses slow or unreliable network connections.

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Traggo – self-hosted tag-based time tracking

January 18, 2026 Steve Emms Web Apps

Traggo is a tag-based time tracking tool. In Traggo there are no tasks, only tagged time spans.

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Coding

RQ – simple Python library

January 18, 2026 Steve Emms Programming

RQ (Redis Queue) is a simple Python library for queueing jobs and processing them in the background with workers.

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fpm – Fortran Package Manager

January 17, 2026 Steve Emms Programming, Utilities

Fortran Package Manager is a package manager and build system for Fortran. It aims to improve the user experience of Fortran programmers.

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Network

Karing – proxy utility

January 17, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Internet

Karing is billed as a simple and powerful proxy utility. It’s written in Dart.

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data analytics

Yōzefu – explore data of a Kafka cluster

January 17, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Internet, TUI

Yōzefu is an interactive terminal user interface (TUI) application for exploring data of a kafka cluster.

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Documentation

rip – fuzzy find and kill processes

January 17, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, TUI, Utilities

rip is a utility that lets you fuzzy find and kill processes from your terminal.

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Selection of utilities

parqeye – visualize parquet files

January 16, 2026 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

parqeye lets you peek inside your Parquet files. Instantly inspect their contents, schema, and metadata — right from your terminal.

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Find Duplicates

crepe – grep-like search tool

January 16, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

crepe is a grep-like text search tool that highlights matches instead of filtering lines. Built in Rust for speed and reliability.

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