Python-native terminal utilities that can be installed directly via uv or pipx. Useful for either quick and dirty work, or a productivity boost in an environment where you don’t have full privileges to install your favourite toolchain.
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The best modern TUI code editor. Built on Textual, offering VS Code/Sublime-like features (file explorer, multi-cursor, mouse support) out of the box.
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The classic, highly customizable terminal file manager with Vim bindings and a multi-column preview layout.
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The “Excel of the terminal.” Incredibly fast tabular data explorer for CSV, Excel, SQLite, IPC and JSON files.
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The absolute powerhouse system monitor. Tracks CPU, RAM, Docker, GPUs, temperatures, and network speeds all at once. Works locally or as a web dashboard you can monitor from your network. Useful for checking status of local home server.
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Improved colored diffs. Displays side-by-side terminal diffs with word-level color coding.
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A terminal-based Markdown browser with clickable hyperlinks and beautiful rendering.
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A massive upgrade to
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A Python-native Git dashboard to stage files, view diffs, and commit without remembering complex commands. Heavily inspired by LazyGit.
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A drop-in terminal IDE replacement for DBeaver/DataGrip. Supports DuckDB, SQLite, PostgreSQL, etc., with a schema sidebar and query editor.