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Text Editor

Dawn – lightweight document drafter

December 31, 2025 Steve Emms Documents

Dawn is a distraction-free writing environment with live markdown rendering.

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Pyroscope – continuous profiling platform

December 31, 2025 Steve Emms Programming

Pyroscope is a continuous profiling platform designed to surface performance insights from your applications.

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Rare – graphical interface for Legendary

December 31, 2025 Steve Emms Games, GUI

Rare is a graphical interface for Legendary, a command line alternative to Epic Games launcher, written in PySide6.

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ruri – calculates the CRC-32 of a file

December 31, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Security

ruri calculates the CRC-32 of a file and checks it against the filename.

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Best Free and Open Source Documentation Generators

tbls – CI-friendly tool to document a database

December 30, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Database

tbls (pronounced /ˈteɪbl̩z/) is a CI-Friendly tool to document a database.

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Files

Twig – terminal JSON viewer and YAML viewer

December 30, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, TUI

Twig is a high-performance Terminal JSON Viewer and YAML Viewer, designed to replace cat, less, and jq for interactive data exploration.

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plotting-article

brplot – better real time plot

December 30, 2025 Steve Emms Scientific

brplot – [b]etter [r]l[plot] is a small application and library that plots data. It works as a library or as an standalone application.

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try-rs – Rust-based workspace manager

December 30, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Programming, TUI

try-rs is a CLI tool designed to manage the chaos of projects. It’s a temporary workspace manager for fast experimentation in the terminal.

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Monitoring

Watchman – file watching service

December 30, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Watchman watches files and record when they change. It can also trigger actions (such as rebuilding assets) when matching files change.

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Selection of utilities

fileformat – tool for recognizing file formats

December 30, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

fileformat is a tool for detecting and identifying file formats.

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Sidef – high-level programming language

December 30, 2025 Steve Emms Programming

Sidef is a modern, high-level programming language designed for versatile general-purpose applications

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subfinder – subdomain discovery tool

December 30, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

Subfinder is a subdomain discovery tool that discovers subdomains for websites by using passive online sources.

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Network

snitch – friendlier ss / netstat tool

December 29, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Security, TUI

snitch is a friendlier ss / netstat for humans. It lets you inspect network connections with a clean TUI or styled tables.

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Selection of utilities

iloader – user friendly sideloader

December 29, 2025 Steve Emms Other

iloader lets you install SideStore (or other apps) and import your pairing file with ease.

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Task Manager

yatto – interactive VCS-based todo-list

December 29, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, TUI

yatto is a Git-backed terminal task manager with full history, sync, and collaboration built in.

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Gaming Chat

Chatty – Twitch chat client

December 29, 2025 Steve Emms Games

Chatty is a Twitch Chat Client for Desktop written in Java featuring many Twitch specific features.

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Tucnak – ham radio VHF/HF contest logbook

December 29, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Other

Tucnak is multiplatform VHF/HF contest logbook. It is executable on Linux and other unix-type systems, Windows, Android and MacOS.

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Linux

Bobcat – terminal emulator

December 29, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity, Utilities

Bobcat is a modern, feature-rich terminal emulator that works across all major operating systems.

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DevOps

nnd – debugger for Linux

December 29, 2025 Steve Emms Programming, TUI

nnd is a debugger for Linux. It’s distributed as a single 6 MB executable file with no dependencies.

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google-java-format – reformats Java source code

December 28, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

google-java-format is a program that reformats Java source code to comply with Google Java Style.

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