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Screen Capture

HyprCap – capture screenshots and screen recording on Hyprland

November 25, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

HyprCap captures windows, monitors and regions on Hyprland, with CLI-controlled screenshots, recordings, clipboard output and notifications.

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Eye Care Software

eyerest – lightweight screen break reminder

November 18, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Scientific

eyerest is a lightweight Bash screen-break reminder that sends desktop notifications at configurable intervals using custom messages.

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Images of shells by the sea

brush – POSIX- and bash compatible shell

November 17, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

brush (Bo(u)rn(e) RUsty SHell) is a POSIX- and bash-compatible shell, implemented in Rust. It’s built and tested on Linux, macOS, and WSL.

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Network

pingstat – multi-server ping statistics and logging

November 4, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

pingstat logs connectivity measurements for multiple servers in SQLite databases, providing historical latency and packet-loss statistics.

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Sushi shell – Bash clone shell

November 1, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Sushi shell (formerly known as Rusty Bash) is a a Bash clone shell implemented in Rust.

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Selection of utilities

autogit – automatically build, update or install Pacman applications

September 29, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Autogit is a Bash tool to automatically build, update or install Pacman applications from PKGBUILD’s

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Software

cylon – Arch Linux maintenance program

September 15, 2025 Steve Emms System Software, TUI, Utilities

cylon is a TUI (terminal user interface) which provides updates and maintains an Arch based Linux distribution.

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System administration

Relax-and-Recover – Linux Disaster Recovery

September 5, 2025 Steve Emms System Software

Relax-and-Recover (ReaR) is a setup-and-forget Linux bare metal disaster recovery solution.

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CPU

brokefetch – a deliberately gloomy system information fetcher

August 4, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

brokefetch displays Linux system information with deliberately gloomy humour, CRT artwork and configurable distribution-specific logos.

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Bomb

tui mines – text-based mine sweeping puzzle game

June 17, 2025 Steve Emms Games, TUI

tui mines is a text-based user interface implementation of the classic mine sweeping puzzle game.

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lule is a bash(y) alternative to pywal

June 15, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

lule is a bash(y) alternative to pywal by mostly using pastel to generate the full 255 colors from an image.

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Password Managers

passage – age-backed password manager

April 19, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

passage is an age-backed command-line password manager with per-entry encryption, configurable recipients and familiar pass workflows.

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Password Managers

passfzf is a simple fzf wrapper for pass

April 19, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

passfzf is a simple fzf wrapper for pass (the UNIX password-store).

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Backup software

Resticker runs automatic restic backups

April 13, 2025 Steve Emms System Software

Resticker runs automatic restic backups via a Docker container.

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TV

termv – terminal iptv player

February 12, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

termv is a small bash script that allows you to select an iptv stream using fzf and play it using mpv.

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Hypervisors

Quickemu – run Linux, macOS, and Windows virtual machines

February 7, 2025 Steve Emms Internet

Quickemu is a wrapper for QEMU that automatically “does the right thing” when creating virtual machines.

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Snip – simple snippet manager

February 5, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Snip is a simple snippet manager for your predefined Ultisnips Snippet Directory.

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Testing Software

Bats – Bash Automated Testing System

February 1, 2025 Eilidih Parris Programming

Bats is a TAP-compliant testing framework. It provides a simple way to verify that the UNIX programs you write behave as expected.

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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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Command Schedulers

sysz – fzf terminal UI for systemctl

January 26, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

sysz is an fzf terminal UI for systemctl. This is public domain software.

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