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Rat Zsh – fast and reproducible Zsh plugin manager

September 17, 2026 Steve Emms Utilities

Rat Zsh is a Rust Zsh plugin manager with TOML configuration, parallel sync, revision pinning, conditional loading, update checks, and reproducible setups.

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slang – SystemVerilog compiler and language services

September 17, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

slang is a fast SystemVerilog compiler and analysis tool offering parsing, elaboration, linting, diagnostics, AST access and Python bindings.

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Icarus Verilog – Verilog compiler and simulation system

September 17, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

Icarus Verilog is a compiler implementation for the Verilog hardware description language

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ZPico – tiny package manager for Zsh

September 16, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

ZPico is a tiny Zsh package manager supporting GitHub, GitLab, Codeberg, Framagit, local repositories, branch selection, updates, and self-updating.

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emplace – synchronize installed packages across multiple machines

September 16, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

emplace synchronizes installed packages across machines, tracks package installations from the shell, uses Git, and can also manage configuration files.

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ab-av1 – AV1 encoding with fast quality sampling

September 16, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

ab-av1 is a video encoding tool that samples VMAF or XPSNR, searches for suitable CRF values, predicts output size, and drives FFmpeg encodes.

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Picogen – minimalist static website generator

September 16, 2026 Steve Emms Web Apps

Picogen is a minimalist static site generator using Markdown and Jinja templates, with themes, categories, and optional S3 deployment.

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Verilator – SystemVerilog simulator and lint system

September 15, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

Verilator is a SystemVerilog simulator and lint system aimed at high-performance digital design verification.

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StaticPipes – flexible pipeline-based static site generator

September 15, 2026 Steve Emms Web Apps

StaticPipes is a flexible static site generator built around configurable pipelines, Jinja templates, asset processing, and output checks.

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svlint – configurable SystemVerilog linter

September 15, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

svlint is a configurable SystemVerilog linter with selectable rules, bundled rulesets, TOML configuration and editor integration through svls.

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Verible – SystemVerilog parser, linter, formatter and language server

September 15, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

Verible is a suite of SystemVerilog developer tools providing style linting, formatting, parsing, project analysis and language server support.

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pretty-php – opinionated PHP code formatter

September 14, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

pretty-php is a PHP code formatter with deterministic output, small diffs, style presets, equivalence checks, and CLI integration.

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WartRemover – flexible Scala code linter

September 14, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

WartRemover is a flexible Scala linter that uses compiler plugins and configurable warts to reject unsafe, surprising or undesirable code.

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Scapegoat – static code analysis for Scala

September 14, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

Scapegoat is a Scala static code analyser that flags bugs, questionable constructs and style problems through configurable compiler inspections.

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Security

Directory Checksum – recursively hash directory contents

September 13, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Security

Directory Checksum recursively hashes directory contents to identify changes and help diagnose Docker, BuildKit, and other OCI build-cache issues.

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Scalafix – refactoring and linting tool for Scala

September 13, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

Scalafix is a Scala refactoring and linting tool with syntactic and semantic rules for checking, rewriting and modernising source code.

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Benchmarking

elbencho – distributed storage benchmark

September 13, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

elbencho is a distributed storage benchmark measuring latency, throughput and IOPS across file systems, object stores, block devices and GPUs.

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Coding

Zarn – static security analysis for Perl applications

September 13, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

Zarn is a lightweight Perl static security analysis tool using AST inspection and taint tracking to identify possible vulnerabilities.

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Security

bitrat – fast multi-algorithm file checksum tool

September 13, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Security

bitrat is a fast command-line checksum tool supporting multiple hash algorithms, HMAC, parallel processing, and nested file hierarchies.

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OSCAR – comprehensive computer algebra research system

September 13, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Scientific

OSCAR is a comprehensive computer algebra system covering number theory, algebra, group theory, geometry, combinatorics and polyhedral computation.

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