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Selection of utilities

ripdrag – drag and drop utilty

March 11, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

ripdrag is a small utility that enables drag and drop operations directly from the terminal.

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Alaska

Memerist – simple meme editor designed for Linux desktops

March 11, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

Memerist offers an easy way to create memes by loading an image and adding captions or graphical elements directly on top.

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Images of shells by the sea

fortsh – shell written in Fortran

March 11, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

fortsh is an experimental POSIX-compatible command shell written in modern Fortran.

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Subtitles

lssub – search and download subtitles

March 11, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia, TUI

lssub is a terminal user interface application written in Rust for searching and downloading subtitles through the OpenSubtitles API.

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Camera Tools

rawbit – camera RAW image preprocessor and importer

March 11, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

Rawbit processes raw image files by converting them to the DNG format in parallel, while offering the ability to manipulate metadata.

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Essential Utilities to Boost Producitivity

Snow – emulate classic (Motorola 680×0-based) Macintosh computers

March 11, 2026 Steve Emms Emulators, GUI

Snow is a modern emulator for classic Motorola 68k-based Apple Macintosh computers.

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Selection of utilities

Cute DBC Editor – desktop application for viewing and editing CAN Database

March 11, 2026 Steve Emms Database, Documents, GUI

Cute DBC Editor is a lightweight, retro-themed desktop application for viewing and editing CAN Database (.dbc) files.

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Task Manager

Taskdog – task management system

March 11, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity, TUI

Taskdog is a terminal-based task management system designed for users who prefer a keyboard-centric workflow.

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samply – sampling CPU profiler

March 11, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

samply is a sampling CPU profiler. Run a command, record a CPU profile of its execution, and open the profiler UI.

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Feluda – detect license usage restrictions

March 11, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

Feluda detects license usage restrictions in your project.

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Essential Utilities to Boost Producitivity

bigsay – display tool

March 11, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

bigsay is a high-visibility GTK4 text display tool written in the Python language.

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Documentation

binwalk – search a given binary image for embedded files

March 10, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

binwalk is a command-line utility designed for analysing binary files and firmware images.

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Selection of utilities

doot – simple dotfiles manager

March 10, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

doot is billed as a fast, simple and intuitive dotfiles manager that just gets the job done.

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Famous Landmarks

PixelBatch – batch image optimization tool

March 10, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

PixelBatch is a powerful, user-friendly desktop application for batch image optimization on Linux.

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Database

Bobby – browse SQLite files

March 10, 2026 Steve Emms Database, Documents, GUI

Bobby lets you open SQLite database files (.db, .sqlite) and browse the tables inside.

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YouTube

ytdl-gui – graphical interface for yt-dlp

March 10, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

ytdl-gui is a simple-to-use tool to download videos or audios from various sources including Youtube, Dailymotion, Vimeo…

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voxcii – terminal-based ASCII 3D model viewer

March 10, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, TUI

voxcii is a terminal-based ASCII 3D model viewer written in C++.

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Static Site Generator

gohan – static site generator written in Go

March 10, 2026 Steve Emms Web Apps

gohan is a simple, fast static site generator written in Go featuring incremental builds, syntax highlighting.

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Wallpaper Setter

Walt – wallpaper manager for Hyprland

March 10, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, TUI

Walt is a wallpaper manager for Hyprland with both a terminal UI and a native desktop GUI.

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Documentation

conceal – operate the recycle bin

March 10, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

conceal is a command line recycle bin utility that follows the FreeDesktop Trash specification.

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