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Terminal Multiplexer

Muxly – lightweight, highly customizable CLI for managing tmux sessions

December 6, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Muxly is a highly configurable Tmux Session Manager based on ThePrimeagen’s tmux-sessionizer script.

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Selection of utilities

checkpac – fast package checker for Arch

December 6, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

checkpac is a fast and simple package checking tool for Arch Linux. Find installed packages, check versions, and discover available packages

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SQL

data-peek – SQL client desktop application

December 5, 2025 Steve Emms Documents

Built for developers who want to quickly peek at their data without the bloat. Supports PostgreSQL, MySQL, and Microsoft SQL Server.

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Text Editor

Pragtical – practical and pragmatic code editor

December 5, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Programming

Pragtical is a cross-platform code editor with a modern graphical interface, developed using C and Lua(JIT), powered by SDL

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Apple Numbers

xleak – Excel files in your terminal

December 5, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Office, TUI

xleak brings Excel spreadsheets to the terminal with beautiful rendering, powerful export capabilities, and a feature-rich interactive TUI.

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Apple Numbers

Vex – Excel viewer

December 5, 2025 Steve Emms Office, TUI

Vex is a beautiful, fast, and feature-rich terminal-based Excel and CSV viewer built with Go.

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Gaming Chat

Rivet – terminal UI Discord client

December 5, 2025 Steve Emms Internet, TUI

Rivet is a terminal UI Discord client written in Rust. It’s in an early stage of development.

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Selection of utilities

makeself – make self-extractable archives

December 5, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

makeself.sh is a small shell script to create self-extracting tar.gz archives.

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SSD

dusage – command-line disk usage information tool

December 4, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

dusage is a command line disk usage information tool written in the Rust programming language.

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Platform Games

Clone Dash – clone of Muse Dash game

December 4, 2025 Steve Emms Games

Clone Dash is a cross-platform clone of Muse Dash, a parkour-rhythm game combination.

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Selection of utilities

SearXNG – privacy-respecting, hackable metasearch engine

December 4, 2025 Steve Emms Internet

SearXNG is a free and open source internet metasearch engine which aggregates results from up to 247 search services.

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Web Browsers

Iocaine – defense mechanism against unwanted scrapers

December 4, 2025 Steve Emms Internet

Iocaine is a defense mechanism against unwanted scrapers, sitting between upstream resources and the fronting reverse proxy.

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Video-Emulators

Pegasus – graphical frontend for browsing your game library

December 3, 2025 Steve Emms Emulators, Games

Pegasus is a graphical frontend for browsing your game library and launching all kinds of emulators from the same place.

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Monitoring

treex – fast, and customizable CLI directory viewer

Updated October 30, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Treex (Tree Explorer) is a lightweight and modern command-line utility that lets you explore your file system visually.

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Machine Learning in Linux

Lotion – unofficial Notion.so desktop application for Linux

December 3, 2025 Steve Emms Scientific

Notion is a single space where you can think, write and plan. Capture thoughts, manage projects, or even run an entire company

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DNA

oxDNA – DNA/RNA simulator with CUDA support

December 3, 2025 Steve Emms Scientific

oxDNA is an extensible simulation+analysis framework. The nucleic-acid-related force fields are implemented: oxDNA1, oxDNA2, oxRNA, oxNA.

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Compositing Window Managers

hypr-cycle – cycle through workspaces on the currently focused monitor in Hyprland

December 2, 2025 Steve Emms Desktop, Utilities

hypr-cycle is a fast, minimal Rust utility to cycle through workspaces on the currently focused monitor in Hyprland.

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Selection of utilities

InstantCLI – consolidating lots of instantOS stuff into a single CLI

December 2, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

InstantCLI is a powerful, Rust-based command-line tool for managing dotfiles, game saves, system diagnostics, and instantOS configurations.

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CodeContexter – simple codebase serializer for LLM Context Windows

December 2, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

CodeContexter is a safety-first CLI tool that aggregates your entire codebase into a single, structured file (Markdown, JSON, or XML).

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Machine Learning in Linux

Crush – terminal-based AI assistant

December 2, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Scientific

Crush is a powerful terminal-based AI assistant that helps with software development tasks.

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