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Art

cadubi – Creative ASCII Drawing Utility

October 16, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics, TUI

cadubi is a terminal ASCII drawing editor with configurable pen characters, foreground and background colours, and text entry.

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Art

cowsay – configurable talking cow

October 16, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

cowsay creates a talking ASCII cow and other characters with custom speech bubbles, selectable cowfiles and different expressions.

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Text Editor

glrnvim – Standalone terminal-based graphical frontend for Neovim

October 16, 2023 Steve Emms Documents, GUI

glrnvim wraps Neovim in a standalone terminal window with configurable terminals, true-colour themes and simple editing workflows.

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Coding

bpython – enhanced interactive Python interpreter

October 15, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

bpython enhances the interactive Python interpreter with completion, function hints, syntax highlighting, session editing and rewind.

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ScrollZ – advanced terminal IRC client

October 15, 2023 Steve Emms Internet, TUI

ScrollZ is an ircII-derived terminal IRC client with flexible windows, channel protection, logging, DCC transfers and colour support.

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Chat

EPIC – highly scriptable terminal IRC client

October 15, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

EPIC is a scriptable terminal IRC client derived from ircII, offering custom commands, multiple servers, encryption and DCC support.

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Latest News

goread is a terminal-based RSS/Atom feed reader

October 11, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Internet, Reviews, Software

goread is an RSS/Atom feed reader for the terminal. It’s written in Go.

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Freshfetch – customisable terminal system information tool

September 12, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Freshfetch displays system information beside configurable distribution artwork, with terminal-focused output and visual customisation.

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Chat

tiny – terminal IRC client

August 22, 2023 Steve Emms Internet, TUI

tiny is a Rust terminal IRC client with consolidated messages, mention tracking, automatic reconnection, configurable keys and TLS support.

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Coding

ptpython – advanced interactive Python REPL

August 18, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

ptpython is an advanced terminal-based Python REPL with syntax highlighting, multiline editing, completion, asyncio and configurable keys.

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Band performing

tori – terminal-based music player

May 29, 2023 Luke Baker CLI, Multimedia, Reviews, Software

tori is a promising music player in a very early stage of development. In terms of functionality, it’s a long way from musikcube.

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Find

Atuin – magical shell history

May 14, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Atuin transforms shell history into a searchable SQLite database with command metadata, statistics and optional encrypted synchronisation.

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Network

pingu – colourful ping utility with ASCII art

April 20, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

pingu adds colourful terminal output and animated penguin ASCII art to network connectivity checks, supporting IPv4 and IPv6 targets.

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Mind Mapping

h-m-m – create mind maps in the terminal

April 5, 2023 Eilidih Parris CLI, Productivity, Reviews, Software

h-m-m is billed as a simple, fast, keyboard-centric tool for working with mind maps.

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Linux

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple Terminal

October 17, 2022 Steve Emms Software, Utilities

Apple Terminal provides a command line interface to control the UNIX-based operating system that lurks below macOS. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.

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Spotify

ncspot – ncurses Spotify client

August 29, 2022 Luke Baker CLI, Multimedia, Reviews, Software

ncspot is a command-line Spotify client that’s written in Rust. It’s published under an open source license.

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Spotify

Spotify TUI – Spotify client for the terminal

August 26, 2022 Luke Baker CLI, Multimedia, Reviews

For this review, we’re looking at Spotify TUI. It’s a Spotify client for the terminal written in Rust.

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Albania

Chafa – terminal graphics image viewer

June 22, 2022 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics, Reviews, Software

This review looks at a terminal-based image viewer that supports the Kitty Graphics Protocol. It’s named Chafa, shorthand for Character Art Facsimile.

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Austria

viu – Terminal Image Viewer with Kitty Graphics Protocol support

June 13, 2022 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics, Reviews, Software

viu is different from the vast majority of image viewers. It’s a small command-line program to view images from the terminal.

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Music player

termusic – terminal-based music player

April 29, 2022 Luke Baker CLI, Multimedia, Reviews, Software

termusic is a music player written in Rust. Here’s our review of this open source software.

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