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Chatty – Twitch chat client

December 29, 2025 Steve Emms Games

Chatty is a Twitch Chat Client for Desktop written in Java featuring many Twitch specific features.

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Linux

Bobcat – terminal emulator

December 29, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity, Utilities

Bobcat is a modern, feature-rich terminal emulator that works across all major operating systems.

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google-java-format – reformats Java source code

December 28, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

google-java-format is a program that reformats Java source code to comply with Google Java Style.

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Selection of utilities

Bongo Cat Wayland Overlay – animated bongo cat reacting to your keyboard input

December 28, 2025 Steve Emms GUI

Bongo Cat Wayland Overlay is a cute Wayland overlay that shows an animated bongo cat reacting to your keyboard input.

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Regal – linter, debugger and language server for Rego

December 28, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

Regal is a linter, debugger and language server for Rego, making your Rego magnificent, and you the ruler of rules!

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ufo – universal file opener

December 28, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

ufo is a universal file opener, an alternative instrument for opening files from a command line.

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System administration

syca – minimal sudo-like privilege elevation tool

December 28, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

syca is a minimal sudo-like privilege elevation tool for Linux with PAM authentication and system-wide secure password caching.

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Compression

ripunzip – unzip an archive in parallel

December 28, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

This is a Rust library (and command-line tool) which uses the power of Rust’s rayon library to unzip a zip file in parallel.

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Security

letmein – authenticated port/firewall knocking

December 28, 2025 Steve Emms Security

Letmein is a port knocker with a simple and secure authentication mechanism. It can be used to harden against pre-authentication attacks.

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Archive Manager

dtrx – intelligent archive extraction tool

December 28, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

dtrx cleanly extract many archive types.

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Fernflower – decompiler from Java bytecode to Java

December 28, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

Fernflower is a decompiler from Java bytecode to Java.

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Files

treemd – modern Markdown viewer

December 27, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Documents, TUI

treemd is a modern markdown viewer combining tree-based navigation with interactive TUI. It’s like tree but interactive.

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Comic Books

Seanime – media server

December 27, 2025 Steve Emms Other, Web Apps

Seanime is a media server with a web interface and desktop app for managing your local library, streaming anime and reading manga.

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Wallpaper Setter

Wallpaper Splitter – apply a single image

December 27, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Wallpaper Splitter allows you to apply a single image as your wallpaper spanning all of your screens on KDE.

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Card Games

Qt Hearts – classic Hearts card game

December 27, 2025 Steve Emms Games

Qt Hearts is a classic card game. Try to avoid taking hearts and especially the Queen of Spades.

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DWARF Explorer – GUI utility for navigating the DWARF debug information

December 27, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Programming

DWARF Explorer is a cross-platform GUI utility for visualizing the DWARF debugging information in executable files

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Cloud

b4n – TUI for the Kubernetes API

December 27, 2025 Steve Emms Internet, TUI

b4n is a terminal user interface (TUI) for the Kubernetes API, created mainly for learning the Rust programming language.

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Monitor System

ibtop – real-time terminal monitor

December 27, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

ibtop is a real-time terminal monitor for InfiniBand networks – htop for high-speed interconnects.

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Selection of utilities

Pyprland – customization tool for Hyprland

December 27, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Pyprland offers a plethora of plugins designed for simplicity and efficiency, allowing you to supercharge your productivity

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Network

turm – interface for the Slurm Workload Manager

December 27, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

turm is a text-based user interface (TUI) for the Slurm Workload Manager, which provides a convenient way to manage your cluster jobs.

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