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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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Creality Print – 3D slicer for Creality printers

January 25, 2026 Steve Emms Utilities

Creality Print is forked from Orca Slice. In turn, Orca Slicer is forked from Bambu Studio, a fork of PrusaSlicer, a fork of Slic3r.

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trzsz-ssh – drop-in replacement for openssh

January 25, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

trzsz-ssh ( tssh ) is an ssh client designed as a drop-in replacement for the openssh client.

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tcgui – Web-GUI for Linux traffic control

January 25, 2026 Steve Emms Web Apps

tcgui is a lightweight Python-based Web-GUI for Linux traffic control (tc) to set, view and delete traffic shaping rules.

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Surge – terminal-based download manager

January 24, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, TUI

Surge is a terminal (TUI) download manager. Designed for power users who prefer a keyboard-driven workflow.

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Flowrs – TUI for Apache Airflow

January 24, 2026 Steve Emms Scientific, TUI

Flowrs is a TUI application for Apache Airflow, an open-source workflow management platform for data engineering pipelines.

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kubefwd – port forward pods within a Kubernetes namespace

January 24, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Internet, TUI

kubefwd is a command-line utility that bulk port forwards Kubernetes services to your local workstation.

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rustledger – Rust implementation of Beancount

January 24, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Financial

rustledger is a drop in Rust replacement for Beancount.

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GitType – turn your source code into typing challenges

January 24, 2026 Steve Emms Education, Productivity, TUI

GitType turns your own source code into typing challenges.

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senpai – modern terminal IRC client

January 24, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, TUI

senpai is an IRC client that works best with bouncers.

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SwitchCalc – GTK4 calculator

January 24, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

SwitchCalc is a GTK4 calculator application for Linux with Standard, Scientific, Programmer, and Date calculation modes.

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GoMusic – download and stream music from YouTube

January 24, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia, TUI

GoMusic is a terminal UI for downloading and streaming music from YouTube with automatic MP3 conversion and metadata tagging.

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wtp – enhanced Git worktree management

January 23, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

wtp (Worktree Plus) is a powerful Git worktree management tool that extends git’s worktree functionality

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brick – Haskell TUI programming toolkit

January 23, 2026 Steve Emms Programming, TUI

brick is a Haskell terminal user interface (TUI) programming toolkit.

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LazyCat Terminal – terminal emulator

January 23, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

LazyCat Terminal is billed as a high-performance terminal emulator with multi-tab, split-pane, and transparent background support

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Chihaya – BitTorrent tracker

January 23, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

Chihaya is built for developers looking to integrate BitTorrent into a preexisting production environment.

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Static Site Generator

MakeStaticSite – generate and deploy static websites

January 23, 2026 Eilidih Parris Web Apps

MakeStaticSite is a set of Bash shell scripts that configure and use Wget to generate a static website from a (typically dynamic) website

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pdpmake – public domain implementation of make

January 23, 2026 Steve Emms Software

pdpmake is a public domain implementation of make which follows the POSIX standard.

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Font Tools

Modular Font Editor K – modular font editor

January 23, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

MFEKglif is a Glyph editor for the Modular Font Editor K project.

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Education

Lixplore-cli – Academic literature search & export CLI tool

January 23, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Education, TUI

Lixplore-cli is a Unix-inspired command-line tool for searching scientific literature, built for terminal enthusiasts

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