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intentrace – strace with intent

January 10, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

intentrace is a strace. It works similarly to strace in that it intercepts and records system calls when a process issues them

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14 Useful Free and Open Source CSS Parsers

January 10, 2026 Steve Emms Programming, Roundup

A CSS parser is a component of a web browser (or any CSS-processing tool) that reads CSS code and turns it into a structured format.

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DHV – dive into Python code

January 9, 2026 Steve Emms Programming, TUI

DHV is a terminal-based tool for diving into Python code, giving easy visual access to bytecode disassembly and the abstract syntax tree.

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SQLFluff – dialect-flexible SQL linter

January 9, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

SQLFluff is an open source, dialect-flexible and configurable SQL linter. It’s written in the Python language.

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sqruff – SQL linter and formatter

January 8, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

sqruff is a fast SQL formatter/linter.

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Seer – GUI frontend to GDB

January 7, 2026 Steve Emms Programming

Seer aims to provide a simple yet attractive GUI frontend to GDB.

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ktlint – Kotlin linter with built-in formatter

January 3, 2026 Eilidih Parris CLI, Programming

ktlint is a Kotlin linter in spirit of feross/standard (JavaScript) and gofmt (Go).

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tinycss2 – CSS parser and generator

January 3, 2026 Eilidih Parris Programming

tinycss2 is a low-level CSS parser and generator written in Python: it can parse strings, return objects representing tokens and blocks

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cpx – CLI for C++ that unifies the fragmented C++ ecosystem

January 2, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

cpx provides a cohesive, Cargo-like experience for managing projects, dependencies, and builds, regardless of your underlying build system.

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Psalm – static analysis tool

January 2, 2026 Eilidih Parris Programming

Psalm is a static analysis tool that attempts to dig into your program and find as many type-related bugs as possible.

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Git Clients

Garden – command runner and multi-repo Git configuration tool

January 2, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

Garden helps you create development workflows over collections of self-contained, loosely-coupled and inter-dependent Git worktrees.

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Pyroscope – continuous profiling platform

December 31, 2025 Steve Emms Programming

Pyroscope is a continuous profiling platform designed to surface performance insights from your applications.

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try-rs – Rust-based workspace manager

December 30, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Programming, TUI

try-rs is a CLI tool designed to manage the chaos of projects. It’s a temporary workspace manager for fast experimentation in the terminal.

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Sidef – high-level programming language

December 30, 2025 Steve Emms Programming

Sidef is a modern, high-level programming language designed for versatile general-purpose applications

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DevOps

nnd – debugger for Linux

December 29, 2025 Steve Emms Programming, TUI

nnd is a debugger for Linux. It’s distributed as a single 6 MB executable file with no dependencies.

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google-java-format – reformats Java source code

December 28, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

google-java-format is a program that reformats Java source code to comply with Google Java Style.

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Regal – linter, debugger and language server for Rego

December 28, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

Regal is a linter, debugger and language server for Rego, making your Rego magnificent, and you the ruler of rules!

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detekt – static code analysis for Kotlin

December 28, 2025 Eilidih Parris CLI, Programming

detekt helps you write cleaner Kotlin code so you can focus on what matters

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Fernflower – decompiler from Java bytecode to Java

December 28, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

Fernflower is a decompiler from Java bytecode to Java.

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flir – parse and rewrite R code

December 27, 2025 Eilidih Parris Programming

flir is an R package to detect and rewrite code patterns. It was originally created to be an R linter and an alternative to lintr.

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