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ty – Python type checker

November 30, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

ty is an extremely fast Python type checker and language server, written in Rust.

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Joker – small Clojure interpreter, linter and formatter

November 30, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

Joker is a lightweight Clojure interpreter, linter and formatter supporting scripting, source checks, code formatting and a REPL.

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plotting-article

Charta – colourful terminal graphs

November 29, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Scientific, TUI

Charta creates colourful terminal graphs, comparisons, cumulative bars and heat maps from text, JSON or YAML data with configurable scales.

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star – command line bookmark manager

November 29, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

star is a (slightly over-engineered) Unix command line bookmark manager.

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Selection of utilities

NextTrace – visual route tracking CLI tool

November 29, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, TUI, Utilities

NextTrace is a network route diagnostic tool with GeoIP, ASN details, MTR monitoring, path MTU testing and multiple probing methods.

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Selection of utilities

Fastrace – fast traceroute utility

November 29, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Fastrace is a fast traceroute utility with IPv4 and IPv6 probes, adaptive concurrency, latency statistics and JSON or CSV reporting.

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NiTch Revived – compact system information fetcher

November 28, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

NiTch Revived provides a compact terminal display of core system information with customisation through its source configuration.

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process

lash – symlink manager for dotfiles

November 28, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

lash manages dotfile symlinks through TOML configuration, configurable targets and a Stow-inspired link and unlink workflow.

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process

fling – file and directory symlink manager

November 28, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

fling builds and removes minimal symlink trees using absolute paths, with colour-coded action previews and confirmation before changes.

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stown – lightweight symbolic link manager

November 28, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

stown creates and removes symbolic links for file trees with protective conflict checks, configurable traversal depth and dry-run previews.

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Cloud

kustomize – declarative Kubernetes configuration management

November 27, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

kustomize customises Kubernetes YAML without templates, using reusable bases, environment overlays, patches and resource generators.

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Yagni – Leiningen plugin for finding dead code

November 27, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

Yagni is a static code analyzer that helps you find unused code in your applications and libraries.

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process

Dploy – cross-platform symbolic link manager

November 27, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Dploy deploys and removes symlink trees with preflight conflict checks, folding, dotfile name conversion and cross-platform support.

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process

XStow – extended GNU Stow replacement

November 27, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

XStow manages Stow-compatible symbolic link farms without Perl, adding automatic directory detection and optional absolute symlinks.

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SpotBugs – static analysis tool for finding Java bugs

November 27, 2025 Eilidih Parris CLI, Programming

SpotBugs detects potential bugs in compiled Java code, including null dereferences, bad API usage and concurrency problems.

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lein-bikeshed – Leiningen plugin

November 26, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

lein-bikeshed is a Leiningen plugin designed to tell you your code is bad, and that you should feel bad.

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stow-cm – configuration package manager

November 26, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

stow-cm deploys configuration packages using symbolic links or copied files, with conflict checking, dry runs, status and encryption.

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Stow – symlink farm manager

November 26, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Stow is a symlink farm manager which takes distinct packages of software and/or data located in separate directories on the filesystem

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Screen Capture

HyprCap – capture screenshots and screen recording on Hyprland

November 25, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

HyprCap captures windows, monitors and regions on Hyprland, with CLI-controlled screenshots, recordings, clipboard output and notifications.

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clj-kondo – static analyzer and linter for Clojure

November 25, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

Clj-kondo performs static analysis on Clojure, ClojureScript and EDN. It informs you about potential errors while you are typing.

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