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Essential Utilities to Boost Producitivity

86Box – low level x86 emulator

December 2, 2025 Steve Emms Emulators

86Box is a low level x86 emulator that runs older operating systems and software designed for IBM PC systems and compatibles from 1981

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Audio Programming

Pd-L2Ork – fork of Pure Data

December 2, 2025 Steve Emms Multimedia, Programming

Pd-L2Ork is a fork of Pure Data. a visual programming language. That means you can use it to create software graphically by drawing diagrams.

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Keyboard

CrossMacro – modern mouse macro recording and playback

December 1, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

CrossMacro is a modern mouse macro recording and playback application for Linux Wayland compositors.

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Keyboard

wl-kbptr – move the mouse pointer with the keyboard

December 1, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

wl-kbptr — short for Wayland Keyboard Pointer — is a utility to help move the mouse pointer with the keyboard.

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Lobster – statically typed programming language

November 30, 2025 Steve Emms Programming

Lobster is a statically typed programming language with a Python-esque syntax

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Find Duplicates

grok – tool like UNIX grep on steroids

November 30, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

grok is a tool like UNIX grep on steroids. Often regular expressions become huge and vague.

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AyuGram – desktop Telegram client

November 29, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Internet

AyuGram is a Telegram client focusing on improving life with features that can’t be implemented in regular clients.

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Selection of utilities

OpenTrace – GUI wrapper for NextTrace

November 29, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

OpenTrace is a cross-platform GUI wrapper for NextTrace, a visual routing tool that aims to be lightweight.

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Selection of utilities

Fastrace – traceroute utility

November 29, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Fastrace is a fast traceroute utility designed for network diagnostics and performance analysis.

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CPU

zeptofetch – ultra-minimal system information tool

November 16, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

zeptofetch delivers system information in under 2ms* with a 28KB binary*. No scripts, no bloat, just pure C doing exactly what you need.

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Essential System Utils

process-map – visualize the virtual memory of a process

November 15, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

process map is tool to visualize the virtual memory of a process. Thread activity is drawn as small dots jumping around on the map.

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Mixer

pipemixer – TUI volume control software for pipewire

November 13, 2025 Steve Emms Multimedia, TUI

pipemixer is a TUI volume control application for pipewire built with ncurses. It’s heavily inspired by pulsemixer and pwvucontrol.

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CCodemerge – merges multiple C/C++ source files into a single text file

November 13, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

CCodemerge is a command-line utility that merges multiple C/C++ source files into a single text file.

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Selection of utilities

alram – alarm for RAM

November 12, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Alram is an alarm for RAM. It’s designed to help when available memory is below threshold, with optional task killer.

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Selection of utilities

GhostMirror – mirror analyzer for Arch Linux

November 12, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

GhostMirror compares the mirror databases with the local database and provides a detailed description of the status.

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Command Schedulers

ServiceMaster – powerful terminal-based tool for managing systemd units

November 11, 2025 Steve Emms System Software, TUI

ServiceMaster is a powerful terminal-based tool for managing Systemd units on Linux systems.

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Selection of utilities

IsMyArchFree – identify licenses

November 10, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

IsMyArchFree is a simple program that analyzes pacman-installed packages’ licenses and flags them as free, permissive, …

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File Managers

sff – simple file finder

November 10, 2025 Steve Emms Productivity, TUI

sff (simple file finder) is a simple, fast, and feature-rich terminal file manager inspired by nnn and guided by the suckless philosophy.

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Linux Candy: shuffle – ASCII art with a cool shuffle effect

November 10, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Utilities

The shuffle command prints an ASCII art picture with a cool shuffle effect.

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Fractals

FLAM3 – cosmic recursive fractal flames

November 9, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

FLAM3 is an original fractal flame renderer and genetic language.

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