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Clipboard

bp – cross-platform clipboard tool

December 17, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

bp (“better paste”) is a cross-platform clipboard tool written in Rust, based on cb.

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csc – command-line scientific calculator

December 17, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity

csc is a command-line scientific calculator that’s written in the Rust language.

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Selection of utilities

zf – fuzzy finder designed for filtering filepaths

December 17, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

zf is a fuzzy finder that excels at filtering filepaths.

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Essential Utilities to Boost Producitivity

Spack – multi-platform package manager

December 17, 2025 Steve Emms System Software

Spack is a multi-platform package manager that builds and installs multiple versions and configurations of software.

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Selection of utilities

lx – convert selected files into clean, consistent Markdown-fenced blocks

December 17, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

lx converts files into simple Markdown-fenced blocks for easy use in LLM chats.

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Bab – modern task runner

December 17, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

Bab is a modern task runner that replaces the clunky syntax of Makefiles and the limitations of npm scripts

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qdmr – program DMR radios

December 16, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

qdmr is a graphical user interface (GUI) application that allows to program several types of DMR radios.

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Gritty – web terminal emulator

December 16, 2025 Steve Emms Web Apps

Gritty is a web terminal emulator. It’s based on node-pty and xterm.js.

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Testing Software

Allure Report – multi-language test report tool

December 16, 2025 Steve Emms Programming

Allure Report is a framework-agnostic test result visualization tool. It transforms test execution data into clear, interactive HTML reports.

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Machine Learning in Linux

Tenere – TUI interface for LLMs

December 16, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Scientific, TUI

Tenere is a TUI interface for Large Language Models. Tenere supports the following backends: ChatGPT, llama.cpp, and ollama.

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Best Free and Open Source HTML Editors

HTMinL – fast, in-place HTML minifier

December 16, 2025 Steve Emms Web Apps

HTMinL is a fast, in-place HTML minifier. It prioritizes safety and code sanity over ultimate compression

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Gdlv – GUI to Delve

December 16, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Programming

Gdlv is a graphical frontend to Delve for Linux, Windows and macOS.

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Essential Utilities to Boost Producitivity

TReX – terminal app for RegEx visualization

December 15, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, TUI, Utilities

TReX is a terminal-based tool for writing, visualizing, and testing regular expressions.

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Configuring music

Lichen – multi-headphone audio router for Linux

December 15, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

Lichen lets you route audio to multiple headphones simultaneously and mix multiple microphones into a single virtual input.

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Circuit board

rustffetch – neofetch-like information manager

December 15, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

rustffetch is a simple, fast and flexible neofetch-like information manager.

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Documentation

mping – simple multicast ping

December 14, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

mping aspires to be an easy to use and script friendly program with support for both IPv4 and IPv6.

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Database

sling – slings from a data source to a data target

December 14, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Database

Sling offers an easy solution to create and maintain small to medium volume data pipelines using the Extract & Load (EL) approach.

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Backup software

Plakar – scalable backup solution

December 14, 2025 Steve Emms System Software, Web Apps

Plakar provides a powerful, and scalable backup solution. Besides file-level backups it captures application data with its full context.

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WebRTC

Say – terminal‑first voice and video call utility

December 14, 2025 Steve Emms Multimedia, TUI

Say is a terminal‑first voice and video call utility that builds an embedded Yggdrasil node via ygg and speaks directly to other peers over the Ygg overlay network.

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Platform Games

AAAAXY – nonlinear 2D puzzle platformer

December 14, 2025 Steve Emms Games

AAAAXY is a nonlinear 2D puzzle platformer taking place in impossible spaces. Although your general goal is reaching the surprising end of the game, you are encouraged to set your own goals while playing. Exploration will be rewarded, and secrets

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