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Selection of utilities

t2sz – compresses a file into a seekable zstd

March 19, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

t2sz compresses a file into a seekable zstd, splitting the file into multiple frames.

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TAYGA – out-of-kernel stateless NAT64 implementation

March 18, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

TAYGA is a stateless NAT64 implementation designed to provide IPv6 connectivity to IPv4-only hosts and services.

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Bioinformatics

minimap2 – versatile sequence alignment program

March 18, 2026 Steve Emms Security

minimap2 is a versatile sequence alignment program for genomic and spliced nucleotide sequences.

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Bioinformatics

BCFtools – variant calling and manipulating files in the Variant Call Format

March 17, 2026 Steve Emms Scientific

BCFtools is a set of utilities for working with variant calls in Variant Call Format (VCF) and its binary counterpart BCF.

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Bioinformatics

samtools – manipulate next-generation sequencing data

March 17, 2026 Steve Emms Scientific

samtools is a suite of tools written in C using HTSlib for manipulating next-generation sequencing data.

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wooz – zoom / magnifier utility for Wayland compositors

March 17, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

wooz is a Wayland magnifier utility that provides a zoomed view of the screen with mouse and keyboard controls.

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Selection of utilities

m33mu – Cortex-M33 emulator

March 16, 2026 Steve Emms Emulators

m33mu is an emulator for ARMv8-M Cortex-M33 microcontrollers with TrustZone awareness.

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Gaming Chat

Blue Nebula – fork of Red Eclipse 1

March 15, 2026 Steve Emms Games

Blue Nebula is a fast-paced arena shooter project derived from the Red Eclipse 1.x series.

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Essential Utilities to Boost Producitivity

wordplay – anagram finder

March 15, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

wordplay is a command-line anagram finder. It takes an input string and searches a supplied word list to generate valid anagrams.

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Music player

hrmp – command line music player for Linux

March 13, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, Multimedia, TUI

hrmp is a command line music player for Linux (ALSA) based systems. hrmp focuses on high-resolution loss-less files (44.1kHz+/16bit+).

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Perforator – Continuous Profiling app

March 12, 2026 Steve Emms Programming

Perforator is a production-ready, Continuous Profiling app that can collect CPU profiles from your production.

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HTTP

Axel – command-line download accelerator

March 12, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

axel is a lightweight command-line download accelerator that speeds up file transfers by opening multiple connections to a server.

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Selection of utilities

Archium – wrapper for AUR helpers

March 12, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Archium is a CLI tool for managing packages on Arch Linux. It provides a simple and intuitive interface for common package management tasks

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GPU-T – graphics card information utility for Linux

March 9, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

GPU-T is a modern desktop utility built with .NET and Avalonia UI designed to provide detailed information about your video card and GPU.

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Batch Renamers

brn2 – bulk renamer with swapping

March 9, 2026 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

brn2 is a fork of brn, a command line tool used to easily mass-rename files in your preferred text editor.

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Selection of utilities

xdgctl – TUI to manage XDG default applications

March 8, 2026 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

xdgctl is a terminal user interface that lets users view and manage XDG default applications and MIME associations on Linux systems.

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Conan – distributed C and C++ package manager

March 7, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

Conan is specifically designed and optimized for accelerating the development and Continuous Integration of C and C++ projects.

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Database

pspg – Postgres pager

March 7, 2026 Steve Emms Database, Documents, TUI

pspg is a pager (with very rich functionality) designed for work with tables. The tool is designed for PostgreSQL, but MySQL is supported too.

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Email

NeoMutt – fork of Mutt with added features

March 7, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

NeoMutt is a command line mail reader. It’s a fork of Mutt with added features. NeoMutt is a project of projects.

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lo – very small low-level JavaScript runtime

March 5, 2026 Steve Emms Web Apps

lo is a low-level JavaScript runtime.

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