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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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Text Editor

MarkFlowy – modern and intelligent Markdown editor

December 2, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, GUI

MarkFlowy is billed as a modern and intelligent Markdown editor.

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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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Tinct – extracts color palettes from images

December 2, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

Tinct is a modern, extensible CLI tool that extracts color palettes from images and generates configuration files.

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Terminal Session Recording

t-rec – fast terminal recorder

December 2, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

t-rec is a blazingly fast terminal recorder that generates animated GIF images for the web.

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Finance

Wealthfolio – desktop investment tracker

December 2, 2025 Steve Emms Financial, GUI

Wealthfolio is a beautiful and boring investment Tracker, with local data storage. No subscriptions, no cloud.

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Essential Utilities to Boost Producitivity

86Box – low level x86 emulator

December 2, 2025 Steve Emms Emulators

86Box is a low level x86 emulator that runs older operating systems and software designed for IBM PC systems and compatibles from 1981

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News

Folo – AI-powered news aggregator

December 2, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Internet

Folo organizes content into one timeline, keeping you updated on what matters, noise free.

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PDF

tdf – TUI-based PDF viewer

December 2, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, TUI

tdf is a terminal-based PDF viewer. Designed to be performant, very responsive, and work well with even very large PDFs.

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Chat

18 Top Free and Open Source Console Based IRC Clients

December 2, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet, Roundup

Internet Relay Chat (IRC) is a form of real-time Internet text messaging (chat) or synchronous conferencing. We recommend the finest console-based IRC clients.

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Files

regname – mass renamer TUI

December 2, 2025 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

regname is a mass renamer utility with a text user-interface.

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Password Managers

OneKeePass – password manager

December 2, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

OneKeePass is a cross-platform,open source and secure password manager. It supports the KeePass-compatible database (Kdbx 4.x).

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process

yadm – yet another dotfiles manager

December 2, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

yadm is like having a version of Git, that only operates on your dotfiles. If you know how to use Git, you already know how to use yadm.

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cljstyle – tool for formatting Clojure code

December 2, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

cljstyle is a tool for formatting Clojure code. The cljstyle tool supports several different commands for checking source files.

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Audio Programming

Pd-L2Ork – fork of Pure Data

December 2, 2025 Steve Emms Multimedia, Programming

Pd-L2Ork is a fork of Pure Data. a visual programming language. That means you can use it to create software graphically by drawing diagrams.

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process

Rustow – modern Stow implementation

December 1, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Rustow is Stow rewritten in Rust. While writing Rustow, Stow only used as a starting idea not as an objective.

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RSS Feeds

liveboat – static page generator for Newsboat feeds

December 1, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

Liveboat is a static page generator which turns Newsboat RSS reader feed data into beautiful static websites.

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lvsk-calendar – terminal-based calendar application

December 1, 2025 Steve Emms Productivity, TUI

lvsk-calendar is a terminal-based calendar application with minimalist design and monochromatic pastel aesthetics.

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