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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 and network diagnostics tool

Updated November 8, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Internet, TUI

ttl is a traceroute and network diagnostics tool with live per-hop metrics, ECMP discovery, NAT and MTU checks, and session replay.

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Hard drive utility

disktui – terminal-based disk management and partitioning

Updated October 24, 2026 Steve Emms System Software, TUI

disktui offers terminal-based disk management on Linux, with partition creation, formatting, resizing, mounting and LUKS encryption.

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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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Network

claws – TUI for AWS resource management

January 16, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, TUI

claws is a terminal UI for AWS resource management. It’s written in the Go programming language.

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Folder

Dupster – interactive terminal duplicate file finder

Updated November 9, 2026 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

Dupster provides an interactive terminal interface for finding identical files, reviewing duplicate groups and previewing deletion.

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Command Schedulers

Cronkit – make cron jobs human-readable

January 16, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Cronkit is a command-line tool that makes cron jobs human-readable, auditable, and visual.

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Selection of utilities

zeP – package and version manager for Zig

January 16, 2026 Steve Emms Utilities

zeP is a fast, lightweight package manager and Zig version manager designed with simplicity, and comfort for the end-user

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rsenv – hierarchical environment management

January 15, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

rsenv is a hierarchical environment management with secure vault storage.

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Linux at Home - RSI

Ianny – prevent repetitive strain injuries

January 15, 2026 Steve Emms Utilities

Ianny is a simple, lightweight, easy to use, and effective Linux Wayland desktop utility that helps with preventing repetitive strain injuries

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