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Backup software

httm – file-level Time Machine-like tool

October 25, 2025 Steve Emms System Software

httm is an interactive, file-level Time Machine-like tool for ZFS/btrfs/nilfs2 (and even Time Machine and Restic backups).

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Stakpak – terminal-native DevOps Agent

October 25, 2025 Steve Emms Software

Stakpak can run commands, edit files, search docs, and more. It has security super powers, and generates high quality IaC.

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Email

Stalwart – all-in-one mail and collaboration server

October 24, 2025 Steve Emms Internet

Stalwart is a mail and collaboration server with JMAP, IMAP4, POP3, SMTP, CalDAV, CardDAV and WebDAV support and a wide range of features.

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Utility

RustNet – cross-platform network monitoring tool

October 24, 2025 Steve Emms Internet, TUI

RustNet provides real-time visibility into network connections with detailed state information, connection lifecycle management, and more.

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Selection of utilities

Stasis – modern Wayland idle manager

October 23, 2025 Steve Emms Utilities

Stasis is a modern Wayland idle manager that knows when to step back. It’s written in the Rust language.

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Stopwatch

fokus – focus timer and stopwatch

October 23, 2025 Steve Emms Productivity, TUI

fokus is a minimalist terminal‐based focus timer and stopwatch with daily logging.

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Database

PRQL – modern language for transforming data

October 22, 2025 Steve Emms Documents

PRQL is a modern language for transforming data – a simple, powerful, pipelined SQL replacement. It’s readable, explicit and declarative.

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quicssh-rs – simple ssh server

October 21, 2025 Steve Emms Internet

quicssh-rs is a QUIC proxy that allows to use QUIC to connect to an SSH server without needing to patch the client or the server.

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Text Editor

Scratchmark – organized Markdown editor

October 19, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, GUI

Scratchmark is an organized Markdown editor designed for note keeping and writing. It’s intended to become a spiritual successor to ThiefMD. This is free and open source software. Website: github.com/sevonj/scratchmark Support: Developer: Sevonj License: GNU General Public License v3.0 Scratchmark

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Singing

LRCGET – download synced LRC lyrics

October 17, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

LRCGET is a utility for mass-downloading LRC synced lyrics for your offline music library.

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Network

wol.rs – Wake On LAN library and command line tool

October 14, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

wol.rs is a Wake On LAN magic packet command line tool and crate.

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SSD

rust-df – simple df like utility in Rust

October 13, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

rust-df (rdf) is a very simple tool that displays output like the df utility, but it’s written in the Rust language.

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Machine Learning

OWLEN – terminal User Interface LLM client for Ollama

October 13, 2025 Steve Emms Scientific, TUI

OWLEN is a Rust-powered, terminal-first interface for interacting with local large language models.

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Typesetting Tools

Hayagriva – bibliography management

October 12, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Education

Hayagriva is a tool that can help you or your apps deal with literature and other media. Use as a library or as a Command Line Interface.

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Pomodorolm – simple time tracker

October 12, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

Pomodorolm is a simple, good looking and configurable pomodoro tracker with tray icon. It’s written in Elm and Rust.

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Compression

ouch – compress and decompress files and directories

October 11, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

ouch is a command-line interface tool for compressing and decompressing for various formats.

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Manga

manga-tui – terminal-based manga reader and downloader

October 10, 2025 Steve Emms Other, TUI

manga-tui is a terminal-based manga reader and downloader with image rendering support.

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Database

GreptimeDB – cloud-native database

October 9, 2025 Steve Emms Database, Documents

GreptimeDB is a cloud-native database purpose-built for the unified collection and analysis of observability data (metrics, logs, and traces).

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System administration

dness – dynamic DNS client

October 7, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

dness is a dynamic DNS client which updates the WAN IP address on the DNS server.

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LAN

Turn On – Wake On LAN (WoL) utility

October 7, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Internet

Turn On is a small GNOME utility application to send Wake On LAN (WoL) magic packets to devices in a network.

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