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rong – Material You and Base16 colour generator

December 1, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

rong generates Material You and Base16 colour schemes from images and video, then applies them through configurable templates.

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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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kibit – static code analyzer for Clojure

November 24, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

kibit analyses Clojure source code and recommends simpler, more idiomatic expressions, with optional automatic fixes and reporting.

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Eastwood – Clojure lint tool

November 23, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

Eastwood is a compiler-aware Clojure linter that detects suspicious expressions, incorrect calls, deprecated APIs and unused code.

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Selection of utilities

reflector-cacheserver – retrieve up-to-date Arch Linux mirror data

November 15, 2025 Steve Emms Utilities

reflector-cacheserver retrieves, filters and ranks Arch Linux mirrors while retaining Pacman CacheServer entries in generated mirrorlists.

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Selection of utilities

process-mem – display memory used by processes

November 13, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

process-mem reports memory used by processes matched by name or regular expression, with user filtering, shared-memory details and sorting.

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Selection of utilities

alram – alarm for RAM

November 12, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

alram monitors available Linux RAM, displays low-memory notifications and can terminate selected processes using a configurable threshold.

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Fractals

FLAM3 – fractal flame renderer and genetic language

November 9, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

FLAM3 renders fractal flames and animations from the command line, with genome generation, mutation, crossover and a reusable C library.

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Reference Management

QuickBib – retrieve BibTeX citations from academic identifiers

November 9, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Education, GUI

QuickBib retrieves BibTeX records from DOIs, arXiv IDs, article URLs and titles using a graphical interface, terminal commands and Crossref.

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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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myping – monitor multiple network hosts simultaneously

November 4, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

myping monitors the reachability of several hosts simultaneously, showing connection failures and successes in a compact terminal display.

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Reference Managers

coBib – console-based bibliography manager

November 1, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, TUI, Utilities

coBib manages bibliographies from the terminal with a searchable TUI, Git-friendly YAML database, importers, citation tools and plugins.

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Reference Managers

bibiman – terminal interface for BibLaTeX bibliographies

October 31, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Education, TUI

Manage BibLaTeX references with bibiman’s terminal interface, fuzzy search, PDF links, notes, DOI lookup and citation-key formatting.

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Selection of utilities

mtr085 – enhanced terminal network route analyser

October 29, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

mtr085 extends mtr with Unicode latency histograms, internationalised domain names, translations and additional network address information.

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Git Clients

ggc – interactive Git CLI and workflow manager

October 24, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Programming, TUI

ggc offers concise Git subcommands and a searchable interactive command picker, with reusable workflows, aliases and configurable keys.

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Bible

bibref – identify textual references in the Bible

October 21, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Other

bibref helps researchers compare Greek New Testament texts with the Septuagint to discover quotations and other textual parallels.

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OpenAPI Spec Validator – validate OpenAPI specifications

October 14, 2025 Eilidih Parris CLI, Programming

OpenAPI Spec Validator checks Swagger and OpenAPI documents on Linux through a Python CLI, importable library and pre-commit integration.

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Git Clients

hk – Git hooks manager and project linting tool

October 13, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

hk runs Git hooks, linters and formatters in parallel, coordinating file access, protecting staged changes and reusing checks in CI.

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Git Clients

pre-commit – framework for managing multi-language Git hooks

October 12, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

pre-commit manages Git hooks across languages, installing isolated environments to run formatters, linters and repository checks.

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System administration

dnsupdate – modern and flexible dynamic DNS client

October 11, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

dnsupdate is a dynamic DNS client with IPv6 support, YAML configuration, multiple providers and address-change detection to limit updates.

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