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Static Site Generator

Gojekyll – Jekyll-compatible static site generator

September 13, 2026 Steve Emms Web Apps

Gojekyll is a Go implementation of a Jekyll-compatible static site generator with Liquid templates, Sass, live reload, file watching, and incremental builds.

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Security

paq – fast BLAKE3 file and directory hashing

September 13, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Security

paq is a fast BLAKE3 command-line tool for recursively hashing files and directories with deterministic output and parallel processing.

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plotting-article

Eigenmath – compact symbolic mathematics application

September 12, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Scientific

Eigenmath is a compact symbolic mathematics application offering exact arithmetic, calculus, linear algebra, plotting, and script execution.

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Maths

GCLC – mathematical illustrations and automated geometry theorem proving

September 12, 2026 Steve Emms Scientific

GCLC creates mathematical illustrations and proves geometry theorems, with Qt GUI, command-line and web interfaces plus LaTeX and SVG export.

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h0neytr4p – configurable web honeypot for reconnaissance and exploits

September 11, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Security

h0neytr4p is a configurable web honeypot that lets defenders create traps for reconnaissance and exploit attempts without deploying vulnerable applications.

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Shell prompt

AX-ZSH – modular Zsh configuration system

September 11, 2026 Steve Emms Utilities

AX-ZSH is a modular Zsh configuration framework with plugin management, caching, themes, upgrades and integration with Oh My Zsh plugins.

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SentryPeer – SIP honeypot and VoIP fraud detection tool

September 11, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Security

SentryPeer is a SIP honeypot and fraud-detection tool that records hostile VoIP activity and can share collected data through peer-to-peer networking.

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Heralding – credentials-catching network honeypot

September 10, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Security

Heralding is a credentials-catching honeypot that emulates common authentication services and records usernames, passwords, and session data.

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Zephyr – lightweight modular Zsh framework

September 10, 2026 Steve Emms Utilities

Zephyr is a lightweight, modular Zsh framework with independent plugins for completion, history, prompts, editing and shell configuration.

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File Managers

LocalGo – LocalSend-compatible command-line file sharing

September 10, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

LocalGo is a LocalSend-compatible CLI for secure local file transfers, device discovery, clipboard sharing, web downloads and headless operation.

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Dionaea – honeypot for capturing exploit and malware activity

September 10, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Security

Dionaea is a network honeypot that emulates vulnerable services, detects shellcode, captures attack activity, and supports numerous protocols.

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worldclock-tty – real-time terminal-based world clock

September 9, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity

worldclock-tty displays multiple time zones in real time with configurable themes, UTC offsets, military time and IANA timezone support.

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OpenCanary – modular multi-protocol network honeypot

September 9, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Security

OpenCanary is a lightweight, modular network honeypot that emulates common services and generates alerts when attackers interact with them.

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Backup software

NPBackup – secure and efficient file backup solution

September 9, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, Reviews, System Software

NPBackup adds a GUI, scheduling, monitoring and multi-repository management to restic’s encrypted, deduplicated backup engine.

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Security

Talisman – detect sensitive data before Git commits

September 9, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Security

Talisman scans Git changesets for passwords, tokens, private keys and other sensitive data before they are committed or pushed.

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Security

detect-secrets – detect and prevent secrets in source code

September 9, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Security

detect-secrets helps teams detect and prevent credentials from entering source code using baselines, plugins, filters and Git hooks.

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Security

Gitleaks – detect secrets in Git repositories and files

September 8, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Security

Gitleaks scans Git repositories, files and standard input for passwords, API keys, tokens and other hard-coded secrets in source code.

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System administration

DNS – recursive and authoritative DNS server

September 6, 2026 Steve Emms Internet

rDNS is a Rust DNS server supporting recursive and authoritative service, DNSSEC validation, DNS-over-TLS, RPZ filtering and metrics.

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Benchmarking

LIKWID – performance monitoring and benchmarking suite

September 6, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

LIKWID is a command-line performance monitoring and benchmarking suite for CPU topology, counters, affinity, energy and microbenchmarks.

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Selection of utilities

reeve – local web development stack manager

September 4, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, TUI, Web Apps

reeve is a Rust TUI and CLI for managing a local web development stack with web servers, PHP-FPM, databases, DNS, SSL, and traffic monitoring.

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