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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

Updated October 24, 2026 Steve Emms System Software, TUI

jolt monitors battery health, power consumption and demanding processes in a customisable terminal interface for Linux and macOS.

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Graphics

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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Circuit board

dmitui – interactive terminal browser for SMBIOS hardware data

Updated November 7, 2026 Steve Emms System Software, TUI

dmitui lets users browse DMI and SMBIOS firmware information interactively in a terminal instead of parsing long hardware reports.

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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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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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Chat

Frolic – modified F-Chat client

January 25, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Internet

Frolic is an F-Chat client developed for simplicity and stability. It’s based on the feature set of the legacy client Rising

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Magical Potions

Vipster – powerful editor for molecular structures

January 25, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Scientific

VIsual Periodic STructure EditoR (Vipster) is a fast and easy to use graphical editor for periodic atomistic simulations.

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Data Science

DAMASK – Düsseldorf Advanced Material Simulation Kit

January 25, 2026 Steve Emms Scientific

DAMASK is a unified multiphysics crystal plasticity simulation package.

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Files

Athas – cross-platform code editor

January 25, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Programming

Athas is a lightweight, cross-platform code editor, built with Tauri (Rust and React) with Git support, AI agents, vim keybindings.

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