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8N1Term – serial terminal

February 2, 2026 Steve Emms Utilities

8N1Term is billed as a next-generation serial terminal that removes ASCII table lookup.

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process

Hexus – process manager

February 2, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Hexus is a process manager built using .NET 10 designed to work on Linux and Windows seamlessly.

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HTTP

httpx – fast and multi-purpose HTTP toolkit

February 1, 2026 Steve Emms Internet

httpx is a fast and multi-purpose HTTP toolkit that allows running multiple probes using the retryablehttp library.

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Anvil – streamline tool installation and team onboarding

February 1, 2026 Steve Emms System Software

Install the tools you need, sync your configs, and keep your environment consistent with a single command-line tool.

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Best Free and Open Source Software: January 2026 Updates

February 1, 2026 Steve Emms Software

January 2026 updates to the largest compilation of recommended free and open source software available for Linux.

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WiFi

YuFi – lightweight Wi-Fi manager

February 1, 2026 Steve Emms Internet

YuFi is a lightweight GTK4 Wi‑Fi manager. It focuses on a clean, minimal dashboard for quick toggles, scanning, and network management.

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Stratis – local storage management

February 1, 2026 Steve Emms Utilities

Stratis is a tool to easily configure pools and filesystems with enhanced storage functionality.

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JSON Tools

qq – jq but an interoperable configuration format transcoder

February 1, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

qq is multi modal, and can be used as a replacement for jq or be interacted with via a REPL.

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Flow – static type checker

February 1, 2026 Eilidih Parris Programming

Flow is a static type checker for your JavaScript code. It does a lot of work to make you more productive.

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Coding

Scalene – memory profiler

February 1, 2026 Steve Emms Programming

Scalene is a high-performance, high-precision CPU, GPU, and memory profiler for Python with AI-powered optimization proposals.

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ZLint – opinionated linter

January 31, 2026 Steve Emms Programming

ZLint is an opinionated linter for the Zig programming language.

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RAW Tools

luffy – watch movies and TV from the command-line

January 31, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

luffy is billed as a spiritual successor of flix-cli and mov-cli. It’s cross-platform software written in the Go language.

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Spreadsheets

VisiGrid – local-first spreadsheet

January 31, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Office

VisiGrid prioritizes speed, correctness, and keyboard-driven workflows over cloud lock-in and opaque automation.

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colorstorm – TUI to generate color themes for Vim, VSCode, and Sublime

January 31, 2026 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

colorstorm is a command line TUI to generate color themes for Vim, VSCode, and Sublime.

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Selection of utilities

par2cmdline – PAR 2.0 compatible file verification and repair tool

January 31, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

par2cmdline is a program for creating and using PAR2 files to detect damage in data files and repair them if necessary.

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Password Manager

Pass-CLI – password and API key manager

January 30, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Pass-CLI is a fast, secure password and API key manager that stores credentials locally with AES-256-GCM encryption.

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Comic Books

Gopherbook – self-hosted comic library and CBZ/CBT reader

January 30, 2026 Steve Emms Other

Gopherbook is a lightweight, single-binary, self-hosted web comic reader and library manager written in Go.

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Git Clients

Beads – distributed, git-backed graph issue tracker for AI agents

January 30, 2026 Steve Emms Programming

Beads provides a persistent, structured memory for coding agents. It replaces messy markdown plans with a dependency-aware graph

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Selection of utilities

oq – terminal-based OpenAPI Spec (OAS) viewer

January 30, 2026 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

oq is a terminal-based OpenAPI Spec (OAS) viewer. It’s written in the Go language.

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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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