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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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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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030-wait

Tmux Pomodoro Plus – incorporate the Pomodoro technique

January 23, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity

Tmux Pomodoro Plus is software which incorporates the Pomodoro technique into your tmux setup.

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faint – extensible TUI fuzzy file explorer

December 31, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity, Utilities

faint is a fuzzy file explorer for the CLI that supports various extensible features.

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rxfetch – minimal but geeky fetch utility

December 31, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

rxfetch is a custom system fetching tool written in a Bash script.

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talking-clock – highly configurable talking clock

December 22, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity

talking-clock is a highly configurable clock written in bash with soundpack and voice options. It’s written in Bash.

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osync – two way filesync script

December 2, 2024 Steve Emms Internet

osync is a two way filesync script running on Bash. It offers local-local and local-remote sync, full script time control and more.

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Georgia

metar – weather report tool

November 23, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Scientific

metar is a simple utility to find wweather stations and get METAR reports. Most METAR stations are airports.

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Laptop

battery-wallpaper – script to set wallpaper according to battery percentage

November 9, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

battery-wallpaper is a bash script to set an animated battery as desktop wallpaper showing charging animation.

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Text Editing

tdo – opinionated command-line note-taking system

October 3, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity

tdo is a opinionated, command line based note-taking system.

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Documentation

rm-trash – replacement for rm

September 23, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

The rm-trash utility puts the files you delete in a shell safely into the Trash (Recycle bin).

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Files

Brash – trash manager

September 21, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Brash is a command-line trash manager.

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Best Free and Open Source Navigation Tools

Navita – rapid directory traversal

September 20, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Navita is a Bash/Zsh utility for rapid directory traversal, employing fuzzy matching, history tracking, and path validation.

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Emojis

wofi-emoji – simple emoji selector for Wayland

July 28, 2024 Steve Emms Other

wofi-emoji is a simple emoji selector for Wayland using wofi that relies on wtype and wl-clipboard.

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Find

findpick – general purpose file picker combining “find” command with a fuzzy finder

July 27, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

findpick is a general purpose file picker combining “find” command with a fuzzy finder. It’s written in Bash.

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