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Web Content Management Systems

TrustyCMS – content management system for small teams

June 13, 2026 Steve Emms Web Apps

TrustyCMS is a content management system for small teams that’s designed to be embedded in an existing Ruby on Rails application.

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Watching World Cup

footty – command-line tool for querying football.db

June 12, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Games

footty is a CLI tool for querying football.db, an open football database covering national and international football leagues and cups.

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Electronic circuit

CircuitVerse – construct digital logic circuits online

May 28, 2026 Steve Emms Scientific, Web Apps

CircuitVerse is a browser-based platform for designing, simulating, and sharing digital logic circuits.

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Git Clients

git-smart – small collection of Git helper commands

May 12, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

git-smart is a small collection of Git helper commands that try to make common repository tasks safer and more informative.

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YARD-Lint – lint YARD documentation

May 4, 2026 Steve Emms Programming

yard-lint is a command-line tool for Ruby and Ruby on Rails projects that lint YARD documentation.

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Slim-Lint – configurable tool for analyzing Slim templates

May 4, 2026 Steve Emms Programming

Slim-Lint is a command-line utility for checking Slim templates for style, consistency, and common problems.

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HAML-Lint – Ruby-based linter for HAML templates

May 4, 2026 Steve Emms Programming

HAML-Lint is a Ruby-based linter for HAML templates. It’s designed to keep HAML files clean, readable, and stylistically consistent.

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Standard Ruby – linter and formatter

May 4, 2026 Steve Emms Programming

Standard Ruby is a Ruby linter and formatter that aims to remove style debates by providing an opinionated, unconfigurable ruleset. It’s built on top of RuboCop, includes rubocop-performance defaults, and helps teams keep Ruby code consistent without spending time tuning

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Emacs Software

Textbringer – Emacs-like text editor written in Ruby

March 21, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, TUI

Textbringer is an Emacs-like text editor runs in a terminal and uses Ruby for extension and customization instead of Lisp.

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oxicop – fast Ruby linter

March 13, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

oxicop is billed as an extremely fast Ruby linter, written in Rust.oxicop reads .rubocop.yml from your project root automatically.

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Sidekiq – simple efficient background jobs for Ruby

February 25, 2026 Steve Emms Programming

Sidekiq is a popular, high-performance background job processing framework for Ruby, commonly used in Ruby on Rails applications

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Selection of utilities

Ember – minimal AUR helper

February 15, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Ember is a minimal AUR helper written in Ruby. It allows you to easily install, update, search, and remove AUR packages

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Plant

Garden Party – manage your garden

February 4, 2026 Steve Emms Web Apps

Garden Party is an application designed to help novice gardeners manage their gardens.

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csscss – CSS redundancy analyzer

January 29, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

csscss will parse any CSS files you give it and let you know which rulesets have duplicated declarations.

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scss-lint – keep SCSS files clean and readable

January 23, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

scss-lint is a tool to help keep your SCSS files clean and readable by running it against a collection of configurable linter rules.

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Sidef – high-level programming language

December 30, 2025 Steve Emms Programming

Sidef is a modern, high-level programming language designed for versatile general-purpose applications

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Flay – analyzes code for structural similarities

December 21, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

Flay analyzes code for structural similarities. Differences in literal values, variable, class, method names, whitespace …

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Ruby CSS Parser – load, parse and cascade CSS rule sets

December 16, 2025 Eilidih Parris Programming

Ruby CSS Parser is software to load, parse and cascade CSS rule sets.

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Git Clients

overcommit – manage and configure Git hooks

October 9, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

overcommit is a tool to manage and configure Git hooks. It supports a wide variety of hooks that can be used across multiple repositories.

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markdownlint – tool to check markdown files and flag style issues

September 7, 2025 Eilidih Parris Programming

markdownlint is an open source tool to check markdown files and flag style issues. It’s written in the Ruby language.

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