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Author: Steve Emms

Git Clients

octoscope – terminal dashboard for GitHub accounts

May 8, 2026 Steve Emms Programming, TUI

octoscope is a Go-based terminal dashboard for GitHub accounts, built with Bubble Tea.

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Compression

Lzip – reliable lossless data compression for archiving

May 8, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Lzip is a lossless compressor designed for reliable long-term storage, with integrity checks, multimember streams and recovery tools.

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Wallpaper Setter

Wewa – render web content as desktop wallpaper

May 7, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Wewa turns webpages, local HTML, videos and ShaderToy shaders into dynamic desktop wallpapers across Linux, macOS and Windows.

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Password manager

pago – command-line password manager

May 7, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

pago is a Go-based command-line password manager for Linux and other Unix-like systems.

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Wallpaper Setter

Waypaper – lightweight graphical wallpaper manager for Linux

May 7, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Waypaper is a lightweight GTK wallpaper manager for Wayland, Xorg and macOS, with slideshows, animated wallpapers and multi-monitor support.

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Mado – fast Markdown linter

May 7, 2026 Steve Emms Programming

Mado is a command-line Markdown linter written in Rust. It is designed to check Markdown documents for style and formatting issues.

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Cloud

LFK – TUI to navigate and manage Kubernetes clusters

May 7, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, TUI

LFK is a terminal user interface for navigating and managing Kubernetes clusters.

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Documentation

Alternatives to popular CLI tools: cksum

May 7, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Software

This article spotlights alternative tools to cksum, a tool to compute and verify file checksums.

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Selection of utilities

steamfetch – display your Steam stats

May 7, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

steamfetch is a terminal utility inspired by neofetch that presents Steam profile and library statistics in a styled command-line display.

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gomarklint – command-line Markdown linter

May 7, 2026 Steve Emms Programming

gomarklint is a command-line Markdown linter written in Go for engineering teams that want to keep documentation quality under control.

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Wallpaper Setter

Hyprpaper – wallpaper utility designed for Hyprland

May 7, 2026 Steve Emms Utilities

hyprpaper sets wallpapers on individual Hyprland monitors, with IPC switching, image scaling and automatic rotation from wallpaper folders.

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godot – linter tool

May 6, 2026 Steve Emms Programming

godot is a Go linter that helps keep source code comments consistent by checking whether comments end with a period when needed.

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Game Tools

Dolm – Lights Out like puzzle game

May 6, 2026 Steve Emms Games, GUI

Dolm is a Lights Out-style puzzle game written in the OCaml language.

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Alaska

TermVisage – browse and view images in the terminal

May 6, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics, TUI

TermVisage is a terminal image browser offering recursive navigation, configurable grids, image animations and Kitty/iTerm2 rendering.

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Wallpaper Setter

awww – animated wallpaper daemon for Wayland

May 6, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

awww is an animated wallpaper daemon for Wayland, offering image transitions, per-output selection, restoration and runtime controls.

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go-ruleguard – analysis-based Go linter that runs dynamically loaded rules

May 6, 2026 Steve Emms Programming

go-ruleguard is a Go static analysis tool that helps developers define project-specific linting checks and run them against Go code.

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Bosgame M7 Mini PC

Bosgame M7 Core Ultra 9 285H running Linux – Introduction to the Series

May 6, 2026 Steve Emms Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

This is a new series looking at the Bosgame M7 Core Ultra 9 285H mini PC running Linux.

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Cloud storage

kodbox – self-hosted file management and team collaboration

May 6, 2026 Steve Emms Productivity, Web Apps

kodbox provides a self-hosted workspace with multi-cloud storage, document previews, editing, version history and collaboration.

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Selection of utilities

nless – interactive terminal pager for structured data

May 6, 2026 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

nless is an interactive terminal pager for logs, CSV and JSON with automatic column parsing, filters, sorting and pivots.

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forbidigo – Go linter for forbidding identifiers

May 6, 2026 Steve Emms Programming

forbidigo is a linter for Go code that checks source files for identifiers and expressions you want to forbid.

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