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Termagotchi – terminal-based Tamagotchi simulation

December 11, 2025 Steve Emms Other, TUI

Termagotchi is a terminal-based Tamagotchi simulation written in Go, featuring a simple and hacky TUI interface.

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Tyr – intelligent file organization powered by machine learning

December 11, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Tyr is a fast file organizer built in Rust that automatically categorizes and groups your files.

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MDNS Scanner – scan networks

December 11, 2025 Steve Emms Internet

MDNS Scanner scans a network and create a list of IPs and associated hostnames, including mDNS hostnames and other aliases.

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zur – AUR helper

December 11, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

zur is just another AUR helper. The AUR is a community-driven repository for Arch Linux users that contains package build scripts.

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Ballerburg SDL – classical castle combat game

December 11, 2025 Steve Emms Games

Ballerburg SDL is a classical castle combat game for Linux and other systems that are supported by the SDL library.

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trickle – bandwidth shaper

December 10, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

trickle is a lightweight userspace bandwidth shaper that is highly configurable.

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NooDS – portable Nintendo DS and GBA emulator

December 10, 2025 Steve Emms Emulators

NooDS aims to be a fast and portable DS and GBA emulator. It features accurate software rendering with upscaling.

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Vanish – rm with cache

December 10, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Vanish (vx) is a .modern, safe file deletion tool with recovery capabilities.

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RPG Games

Eldiron – classical RPG creator

December 10, 2025 Steve Emms Games

Eldiron is a cross-platform creator for classic retro role-playing games (RPGs). It supports 2D and first-person RPGs.

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Typesetting Tools

KaTeX – fast math typesetting for the web

December 10, 2025 Steve Emms Documents

KaTeX is a fast, easy-to-use JavaScript library for TeX math rendering on the web.

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dashi – simple shell for Linux window managers

December 10, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Dashi is a simple shell for lightweight window managers on Linux with minimal resources.

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Video-Emulators

Citron – Nintendo homebrew emulator

December 10, 2025 Steve Emms Emulators, Games

Citron is a cutting-edge Nintendo Homebrew emulator offering an optimized experience for playing your favorite games and exploring new ones.

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Find Duplicates

mgrep – semantically grep everything

December 9, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

mgrep is a calm, CLI-native way to semantically grep everything, like code, images, pdfs and more.

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Regex TUI – test and visualize regular expressions in real-time

December 9, 2025 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

Regex TUI is a terminal user interface (TUI) application for testing and visualizing regular expressions in real-time.

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NATMap – TCP/UDP port mapping for full-cone NAT

December 9, 2025 Steve Emms Internet

NATMap is used to establish a TCP/UDP port mapping from an ISP NAT public address to local private address.

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Cloud storage

kapp – simple deployment tool

December 9, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

kapp CLI encourages Kubernetes users to manage resources in bulk by working with “Kubernetes applications” (sets of resources with the same label).

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December 9, 2025 Steve Emms Hardware, Software

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Mint – programming language for the front-end web

December 9, 2025 Steve Emms Programming

Mint is a programming language to write single page applications with tools to write error free, easily readable and maintainable applications.

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prmt – ultra-fast, customizable shell prompt generator

December 9, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

prmt is billed as an ultra-fast, customizable shell prompt that won’t slow you down.

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Security

Volshell – CLI tool for working with memory

December 8, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Security

Volshell is a utility to access the volatility framework interactively with a specific memory image.

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