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Security

why2 – easy to use encryption system

December 28, 2025 Steve Emms Security

why2 is billed as a lightweight, fast, secure, and easy to use encryption system.

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Compositing Window Managers

fht-compositor – dynamic tiling Wayland compositor

December 28, 2025 Steve Emms Desktop

fht-compositor is a dynamic tiling Wayland compositor that implements a window management model inspired by X11 window managers such as dwm and xmonad.

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Compression

ripunzip – unzip an archive in parallel

December 28, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

This is a Rust library (and command-line tool) which uses the power of Rust’s rayon library to unzip a zip file in parallel.

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letmein – authenticated port/firewall knocking

December 28, 2025 Steve Emms Security

Letmein is a port knocker with a simple and secure authentication mechanism. It can be used to harden against pre-authentication attacks.

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treemd – modern Markdown viewer

December 27, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Documents, TUI

treemd is a modern markdown viewer combining tree-based navigation with interactive TUI. It’s like tree but interactive.

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Hex Editor

Hextazy – colorful hexadecimal editor

December 27, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, TUI

Hextazy is a colorful hexadecimal editor, inspired by hexyl.

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Cloud

b4n – TUI for the Kubernetes API

December 27, 2025 Steve Emms Internet, TUI

b4n is a terminal user interface (TUI) for the Kubernetes API, created mainly for learning the Rust programming language.

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Monitor System

ibtop – real-time terminal monitor

December 27, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

ibtop is a real-time terminal monitor for InfiniBand networks – htop for high-speed interconnects.

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Network

turm – interface for the Slurm Workload Manager

December 27, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

turm is a text-based user interface (TUI) for the Slurm Workload Manager, which provides a convenient way to manage your cluster jobs.

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Documents

lla – fast ls replacement with superpowers

December 26, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

lla is a modern ls replacement that transforms how developers interact with their filesystem.

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Mago – extremely fast PHP linter, formatter, and static analyzer

December 26, 2025 Eilidih Parris CLI, Programming

Mago is a comprehensive toolchain for PHP that helps developers write better code. Inspired by the Rust ecosystem.

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Files

mdfried – Markdown viewer

December 25, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, TUI

mdfried is a markdown viewer for the terminal that renders headers as Bigger Text than the rest.

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ebook reader

Bookokrat – terminal-based EPUB reader

December 25, 2025 Steve Emms Documents

Bookokrat is a terminal-based EPUB reader with a split-view library and reader, full MathML and image rendering

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Coding

sticks – modern, lightweight CLI tool for managing C and C++ projects

December 24, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

sticks is published under the MIT license.

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lux – package manager for Lua

December 24, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

lux is a luxurious package manager for Lua.

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kirill – JSON validator

December 24, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

kirill scans projects large and small for JSON correctness.

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Application Launchers

Stryde – application launcher

December 23, 2025 Steve Emms Desktop

Stryde is an application launcher that’s in an early stage of development.

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Selection of utilities

ck – semantic code search

December 23, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, TUI, Utilities

ck (seek) finds code by meaning, not just keywords. It’s grep that understands what you’re looking for

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Screen Capture

termframe – terminal output SVG screenshot tool

December 23, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

This tool is a non-interactive terminal emulator that executes a single command, renders its output in an internal virtual session, and exports a screenshot as an SVG file.

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Essential Utilities to Boost Producitivity

demongrep – fast, local semantic code search

December 23, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Search your codebase using natural language queries like “where do we handle authentication?” — all running locally with no API calls.

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