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Warble

Blurble is a word guessing game

April 2, 2025 Steve Emms Games, GUI

Blurble is a word guessing game. Solve the riddle until you run out of guesses! The game is a clone of Wordle.

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serpl is a TUI to search and replace keywords

April 1, 2025 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

serpl is a terminal user interface (TUI) application that allows users to search and replace keywords in an entire folder,

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Music

SACAD: Smart Automatic Cover Art Downloader

April 1, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

SACAD is a command line tool to download album covers without manual intervention, ideal for integration in scripts, audio players, etc.

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ArchiveKeep keeps your files archived in multiple places

April 1, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, System Software

ArchiveKeep is a utility that keeps your files archived in multiple places, in a reliable and simple way.

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Best Free and Open Source Software: March 2025 Updates

April 1, 2025 Steve Emms Software

March 2025 updates to the largest compilation of recommended free and open source software available for Linux.

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Selection of utilities

svu is a small helper for release scripts and workflows

March 31, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

svu provides utility commands and functions to increase specific portions of the version.

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concurrently lets you run multiple commands concurrently

March 31, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

concurrently is similar to the command npm run watch-js & npm run watch-less but better.

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System administration

ddrescueview examines ddrescue’s mapfiles

March 31, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

ddrescueview is a small tool that allows users to graphically examine ddrescue’s mapfiles in a user friendly GUI application.

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Essential-Utilities

entr – Event Notify Test Runner

March 30, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

entr is a utility that runs arbitrary commands when files change.

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Find

mprocs runs multiple commands in parallel

March 30, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

mprocs runs multiple commands in parallel and shows output of each command separately.

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sesh is a smart terminal session manager

March 30, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Sesh is a CLI that helps you create and manage tmux sessions quickly and easily using zoxide.

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Kondo recursively cleans project directories

March 29, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, Programming

Kondo recursively cleans project directories. Supported project types include Cargo, Node, Unity, SBT, Haskell Stack, Maven, Unreal Engine, and more.

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Font Tools

nerdfix fixes obsolete Nerd Font icons

March 29, 2025 Steve Emms Utilities

nerdfix helps you to find/fix obsolete Nerd Font icons in your project.

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Essential Utilities to Boost Producitivity

openapi-tui lists, browses and runs APIs

March 29, 2025 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

openapi-tui is a terminal UI to list, browse and run APIs defined with OpenAPI v3.0 and v3.1 spec.

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Log Analyzers

humanlog is a pretty log viewer

March 28, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

humanlog reads logs from stdin and prints them back to stdout, but prettier.

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Essential Utilities to Boost Producitivity

mult runs a command multiple times

March 28, 2025 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

mult lets you run a command multiple times and glance at the outputs via a TUI.

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Selection of utilities

gowatch builds and restarts go projects

March 28, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

gowatch is a command line tool that builds and (re)starts your go project every time you save a Go or template file.

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Selection of utilities

air is a live-reloading utility for developing Go applications

March 27, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Run air in your project root directory, leave it alone, and focus on your code.

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Cloud storage

PAR Scrape is a web scraping tool

March 26, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

PAR Scrape is a versatile web scraping tool with options for Selenium or Playwright, featuring AI-powered data extraction and formatting.

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Documentation

w2vgrep is a semantic grep tool

March 26, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

w2vgrep is a command-line tool that performs semantic searches on text input using word embeddings.

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