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Carapace – multi-shell multi-command argument completer

January 30, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Carapace is a shell completion library (carapace-sh/carapace) as well as a binary containing a collection of shell completers.

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Utility Software

Acronym Decoder – explains acronyms and abbreviations

January 30, 2025 Steve Emms Utilities

Acronym Decoder is a simple tool for quick searching of meaning for various acronyms and abbreviations. It’s written in Pascal.

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Encrypted Files

Picocrypt – small and secure encryption tool

January 30, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Security

Picocrypt is billed as a very small (hence Pico), very simple, yet very secure encryption tool that you can use to protect your files.

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Monitor System

LXTask – lightweight task manager for LXDE

January 29, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

LXTask is a lightweight and desktop-independent task manager derived from xfce4-taskmanager with all dependencies on xfce removed

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CmdCompass – collect, learn, recall terminal commands

January 29, 2025 Steve Emms Utilities

cmdCompass is a command manager/notebook, enabling users to organize commands into collections, apply tags, define templates

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nap – code snippets in your terminal

January 28, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Create and access new snippets quickly with the command-line interface or browse, manage, and organize them with the text-user interface.

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Documentation

asciit – compact ASCII table

January 27, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

asciit is a more compact and intuitive ASCII table highlighting digits and letters.

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snip – CLI snippets manager

January 27, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

snip is a simple snippet manager for bash, to save useful and important bash code snippets directly from the bash prompt.

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USB

USBGuard – framework for implementing USB device authorization policies

January 27, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Security

The USBGuard software framework helps to protect your computer against rogue USB devices (a.k.a. BadUSB).

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Documentation Generators

Framed – Files and Directories Reusability, Architecture, and Management

January 26, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Framed is a CLI tool that simplifies the organization and management of files and directories in a reusable and architectural manner.

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Find Duplicates

backdown – a deduplicator

January 26, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Backdown helps you safely and ergonomically remove duplicate files. This is a command-line tool written in Rust.

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Backup software

shallow-backup – Git-integrated backup tool

January 26, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

shallow-backup lets you easily create lightweight backups of installed packages, applications, fonts and dotfiles.

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SSH

GGH – recall your SSH sessions

January 25, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

GGH is software which recalls your SSH sessions. It also searches your SSH configuration file.

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Backup

Btrbk – backup tool for btrfs subvolumes

January 23, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

Btrbk is a backup tool for btrfs subvolumes, taking advantage of btrfs specific capabilities to create atomic snapshots.

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Linux

rio – hardware-accelerated GPU terminal emulator

January 17, 2025 Steve Emms Productivity

rio is a hardware-accelerated GPU terminal emulator powered by WebGPU. It’s built to run everywhere, as a native desktop application.

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Linux

QTerminal – lightweight Qt-based terminal emulator

January 16, 2025 Steve Emms Productivity

QTerminal is a lightweight Qt terminal emulator based on QTermWidget. It can be used independently from the LXQt project.

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Comic Books

cbxv – high fidelity comic book viewer

January 14, 2025 Steve Emms Other

cbxv is a native, desktop application for viewing comic book and manga (.cbz and .cbr) files.

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MyNav – workspace and session management TUI

January 14, 2025 Eilidih Parris CLI, Programming

MyNav is a powerful terminal-based workspace navigator and session manager built in Go.

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Linux

fingerterm – terminal emulator

January 13, 2025 Steve Emms Productivity

fingerterm is a terminal emulator with a custom virtual keyboard. It is designed for the Nokia N9 and Jolla’s Jolla devices.

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Sound System

BUTT – broadcast using this tool

January 12, 2025 Steve Emms Multimedia

BUTT (Broadcast Using This Tool) is an easy to use, streaming tool supporting Icecast, Shoutcast and WebRTC.

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