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Confluent – manage and provision large server clusters

Updated October 23, 2026 Steve Emms System Software

Confluent provides hardware management, operating system deployment, remote consoles and automation for large server and cluster environments.

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Software

nfpm – deb, rpm, apk, ipk and arch Linux packager

December 19, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

nfpm is a simple deb, rpm, apk, ipk, and arch linux packager written in Go.

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Selection of utilities

Brioche – package manager

December 19, 2025 Steve Emms Utilities

Brioche is a package manager and build tool for building and running your most complex software projects.

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amalgo – create consolidated snapshots of source code

December 19, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

Amalgo is a CLI tool that creates consolidated snapshots of source code for analysis, documentation, and sharing with LLMs.

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044-time management

timesup – simple cli timer with notifications

December 18, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity

timesup is a simple cli timer with Linux notifications using notify-send.

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Selection of utilities

ferp – grep clone

December 18, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

ferp aims to be a clone of grep, but written in modern Fortran.

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Music player

doudou – personal music player that puts privacy first

December 18, 2025 Steve Emms Multimedia, Web Apps

Stream your music collection from your own media server with a beautiful, modern interface that works on all your devices.

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Database

TigerBeetle – financial transactions database

December 18, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Database

TigerBeetle is a reliable, fast, and highly available database for financial accounting.

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SQL

Musoq – SQL Swiss Army Knife

December 18, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Database

Stop writing throwaway scripts. Use SQL instead.

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Essential Utilities to Boost Producitivity

cmdcreate – create custom commands

December 18, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

cmdcreate allows you to create custom commands for your Linux terminal without needing to enter the same “complex” commands

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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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Linux

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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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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