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lukaj – interactive diff tool for SVG images

December 14, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

lukaj is an interactive diff tool for SVG images written in Rust.

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aqua – declarative CLI version manager

December 14, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

aqua is a declarative CLI version manager written in Go. It works as a single binary.

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Cloud storage

g1c – Google Cloud Instances Terminal UI Manager

December 13, 2025 Steve Emms Internet, TUI

g1c is a terminal user interface for monitoring and managing Google Cloud Instances.

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SQL

ChartDB – web-based database diagramming editor

December 13, 2025 Steve Emms Database, Web Apps

ChartDB is a powerful, web-based database diagramming editor. Instantly visualize your database schema with a single “Smart Query.”

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hgrep – grep with human-friendly search output

December 13, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

hgrep is a grep tool to search files with a given pattern and print the matched code snippets with human-friendly syntax highlighting.

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cdncheck – detect various technology for a given IP address

December 12, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

cdncheck is a tool for identifying the technology associated with dns / ip network addresses.

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PasteLock – encrypted clipboard manager

December 12, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

PasteLock is an encrypted clipboard manager with login, scrollable history and text/image paste storage.

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mq – jq-like command-tool for Markdown processing

December 12, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Documents

mq is a markdown processor that can filter markdown nodes by using jq-like syntax.

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Video-Emulators

Gearcoleco – cross-platform ColecoVision emulator

December 12, 2025 Steve Emms Emulators, Games

Gearcoleco is a very accurate cross-platform ColecoVision emulator written in C++ that runs on Linux, BSD, RetroArch, macOS, and Windows.

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LinuxLinks.com reaches epic milestone

December 12, 2025 Steve Emms News

We at LinuxLinks.com are thrilled to announce a remarkable achievement: we’ve just published our 10,000th article on all things Linux!

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Document viewer

hostman – simple tool for managing file uploads to hosting services

December 12, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

Hostman is a robust, cross-platform command-line application for uploading files (primarily images) to various hosting services.

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sneemok – screenshot tool

December 12, 2025 Steve Emms Graphics

sneemok is a Wayland screenshot annotation tool written in Zig.

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Keyboard

xremap – key remapper

December 12, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

xremap is a key remapper for Linux. Unlike xmodmap, it supports app-specific remapping and Wayland.

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Backup software

Backmey – desktop backup tool

December 12, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, System Software

Backmey lets you backup what matters, restore anywhere. Configs, themes, fonts, browsers, and packages. It’s a cross-distro tool.

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Selection of utilities

uncover – quickly discover exposed hosts on the internet

December 12, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

uncover is a go wrapper using APIs of well known search engines to quickly discover exposed hosts on the internet.

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hypruler – measure anything on your screen

December 12, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

hypruler is a utility to measure anything on your screen. It’s built for Linux and Hyprland.

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Topiary – uniform formatter for simple languages

December 12, 2025 Steve Emms Programming

Topiary aims to be a uniform formatter for simple languages, as part of the Tree-sitter ecosystem.

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PDF

lumus – read PDF files directly in your terminal

December 11, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Documents

Lumus is a command-line tool written in Go that allows you to read PDF files directly in your terminal.

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Database

Flyway – database migration tool

December 11, 2025 Steve Emms Database

Flyway lets you evolve your database schema easily and reliably across all your instances. It’s written in Java.

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Hourglass – simple time keeping application

December 11, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

Hourglass is a simple time keeping application designed for elementary OS. It also works with other Linux distributions.

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