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FTP Client

FTPGrab – grah files from FTP or SFTP servers

January 1, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

FTPGrab is a CLI application written in Go and delivered as a single executable (and a Docker image) to grab your files from a remote FTP or SFTP server to your NAS, server or computer. With Go, this can be

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Find Duplicates

mmry – local-first memory system for humans and AI agents

January 1, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, TUI, Utilities

mmry is a local-first memory system. Store any text and find it again with multiple search strategies, pipe it anywhere with JSON.

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Clipboard

nocb – nearly optimal clipboard manager

January 1, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

nocb describes itself as a nearly optimal clipboard manager – fast, compressed, hash-based storage.

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Backup software

mackup – keeps application settings in sync

January 1, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

mackup is a tool for backup and keeping your application settings in sync.

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Application Launchers

SimplyToast – startup and background process manager

January 1, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

SimplyToast is a minimal, fast, and visually clean tool designed to give you full control over startup applications, background processes, and more.

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Wallpaper Setter

gSlapper – wallpaper utility

January 1, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

gSlapper is a wallpaper utility for Wayland that combines the best of swww and mpvpaper by allowing both static and video wallpapers.

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Email

Modoboa – mail hosting and management platform

January 1, 2026 Steve Emms Internet

Modoboa is a mail hosting and management platform including a modern and simplified Web User Interface.

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Selection of utilities

orphanhunter – identify and remove orphaned packages

January 1, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

OrphanHunter is a lightweight utility for Arch Linux designed to identify and remove orphaned packages and files that clutter your system

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Data Science

Alchemist – extensible simulator for pervasive computing

December 31, 2025 Steve Emms Scientific

Alchemist is a simulator for pervasive, aggregate, and nature-inspired computing.

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WallpaperDownloader

BiglyBT – BitTorrent client

December 31, 2025 Steve Emms GUI

BiglyBT is billed as a feature filled bittorrent client. It’s cross-platform software as it’s written in Java.

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Command Schedulers

Cronicle – multi-server task scheduler and runner

December 31, 2025 Steve Emms Web Apps

Cronicle is a multi-server task scheduler and runner, with a web based front-end UI.

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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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Circuit board

Stormfetch – system profiler

December 31, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

Stormfetch is a program that can read your system’s information and display it in the terminal along with the ASCII art of the Linux distro.

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Shooter Games

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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Natural Language Processing

19 Useful R Natural Language Processing Tools

December 30, 2025 Steve Emms Programming, Roundup, Scientific

Natural language processing (NLP) is a set of techniques for using computers to detect in human language the kinds of things that humans detect automatically.

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