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Reference Managers

Xapers – personal journal article indexing and management

October 29, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Education, TUI

Xapers indexes academic PDFs and bibliographic metadata for full-text searching, tagging, document retrieval, and BibTeX export.

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luha – simple file checksum tool

October 27, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

luha is a simple file checksum command-line interface tool.

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lunas – syncing cli tool

October 27, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

lunas is a syncing cli tool that can handle more than two directories locally and remotely.

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Documents

lv – directory listing and counting tool

October 27, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

iv is a directory listing and counting tool written in C++.

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Mangal – CLI manga downloader

October 26, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Other

Mangal is billed as an advanced CLI manga downloader.

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Git Clients

ggc – interactive Git CLI and workflow manager

October 24, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Programming, TUI

ggc offers concise Git subcommands and a searchable interactive command picker, with reusable workflows, aliases and configurable keys.

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sshmate – simplify interactions with SSH servers

October 23, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

sshmate is a tool to simplify interactions with SSH servers, offering an easy way to connect to servers by assigning a name to an address.

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Files

Jimmy – convert your notes to Markdown

October 20, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Documents, TUI

Jimmy is a tool to convert your notes from different formats to Markdown. It has both a CLI and TUI.

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fortbite – command-line calculator

October 19, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity

fortbite is a command-line calculator written in Fortran that handles arbitrary precision arithmetic, complex numbers, and matrices.

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System administration

dyndnsc – dynamic dns update client

October 17, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

dyndnsc is a command line client for sending updates to dynamic dns (ddns, dyndns) services.

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Rate My OpenAPI – improve the quality of your OpenAPI specifications

October 16, 2025 Eilidih Parris CLI, Programming

Rate My OpenAPI is a suite of tools designed to help software developers who are using OpenAPI to design and implement their APIs.

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Comic Books

mandown – comic downloader

October 15, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Other

Mandown is a comic downloader and a CBZ, EPUB, MOBI, and/or PDF converter.

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kotatsu-dl – cli manga downloader

October 15, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Other

kotatsu-dl is an easy-to-use cross-platform manga downloader with a lot of manga sources supported.

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oval – CLI for (O)penAPI Specification document (val)idation

October 15, 2025 Eilidih Parris CLI, Programming

oval is an OpenAPI Specification (OAS) document validator that was built to replace the CLI provided by swagger-tools.

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mloader – download manga from mangaplus

October 14, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Other

mloader is a command-line utility that lets you download manga from mangplus.

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OpenAPI Spec Validator – validate OpenAPI specifications

October 14, 2025 Eilidih Parris CLI, Programming

OpenAPI Spec Validator checks Swagger and OpenAPI documents on Linux through a Python CLI, importable library and pre-commit integration.

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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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Git Clients

Jig – extensible Git pre-commit hook framework

October 14, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

Jig manages Git pre-commit plugins for staged-file checks, with configurable warnings, manual execution and revision-range reporting.

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SSD

colordf – colored and configurable version of df

October 13, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

colordf is a colored and configurable version of df, forked from cdf.

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OAS-Kit – convert Swagger 2.0 definitions to OpenAPI 3.0

October 13, 2025 Eilidih Parris CLI, Programming

OAS-Kit converts Swagger 2.0 definitions to OpenAPI 3.0 and resolve/validate/lint.

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