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beatfreaker/text-meme-cli

Generate text meme

Stack

JavaScript npm

Updated: 2017-04-21
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-12-19
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 3 open

102

stars

Forks: 6
Commits: 15 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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busyloop/vj

vj - JSON Humanizer

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2018-01-02
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-12-27
History: 5 history points
License: BSD-2-Clause
Issues: 2 open

stars

Forks: 4
Commits: 5 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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danyshaanan/osx-wifi-cli

:package: A cli for managing wifi connections on OSX

Stack

JavaScript npm

GitHub topics

#cli #npm-package #osx

Updated: 2020-02-17
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-02-26
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

stars

Forks: 12
Commits: 76 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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mahlquistj/octotype

A WIP TUI typing trainer inspired by monkeytype with a focus on customization

Stack

Rust React Cargo npm

GitHub topics

#configurable #ratatui #rust #terminal-ui #tui #typing

Updated: 2026-06-28
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2025-03-06
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 6 open

stars

Forks: 1
Commits: 257 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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riyadhalnur/quote-cli

Get a random quote or the quote of the day in your CLI

Stack

JavaScript npm

GitHub topics

#cli #nodejs #quote-cli #quotes #terminal

Updated: 2026-05-08
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-09-19
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 6 open

stars

Forks: 6
Commits: 90 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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riyadhalnur/weather-cli

Check the weather for your city from your terminal

Archived

Stack

JavaScript npm

GitHub topics

#cli #nodejs #terminal #weather #weather-cli

Updated: 2025-03-26
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-09-09
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

stars

Forks: 7
Commits: 268 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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IonicaBizau/birthday

:birthday: Know when a friend's birthday is coming.

Stack

JavaScript npm

GitHub topics

#hacktoberfest

Updated: 2025-02-13
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-06-02
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

stars

Forks: 8
Commits: 51 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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jtaylortech/journalot

Minimal journaling CLI for developers. Git-backed, terminal-native, zero friction. Just type `journal` and start writing.

Stack

Shell

GitHub topics

#bash #cli #daily-journal #developer-tools #git #journaling

Updated: 2026-06-22
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2025-06-22
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

stars

Forks: 5
Commits: 56 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

pandastrike/yaml-cli

A simple CLI for querying and updating YAML files

Stack

Shell npm

Updated: 2021-01-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-02-28
History: 5 history points
License: ISC
Issues: 24 open

stars

Forks: 5
Commits: 27 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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roboticforce/sugar

Persistent memory for AI coding agents. Local-first, cross-session context, global knowledge, and optional autonomous task execution.

AI dev

Stack

Python Express pytest Starlette npm PEP 517 pip

GitHub topics

#ai-agents #ai-coding #ai-development #ai-memory #autonomous-ai #claude-code

Updated: 2026-07-03
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2025-08-21
History: 5 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 4 open

stars

Forks: 13
Commits: 413 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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sindresorhus/file-type-cli

Detect the file type of a file or stdin

Stack

JavaScript npm

Updated: 2021-11-24
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-10-11
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

stars

Forks: 4
Commits: 21 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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sindresorhus/hasha-cli

Hashing made simple. Get the hash of text or stdin.

Stack

JavaScript npm

Updated: 2025-09-12
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-09-01
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

stars

Forks: 3
Commits: 17 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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koraa/pipe_exec

Execute binaries from pipes, stdin and ttys

Stack

Updated: 2026-02-24
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-07-03
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 3 open

stars

Forks: 7
Commits: 27 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

roma-guru/ricksay

Rick & Morty quotes of the day with ponies included!

Stack

Pony pip

GitHub topics

#256-colors #fortunes #rick-and-morty #rickandmorty #terminal

Updated: 2022-07-09
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-02-26
History: 5 history points
License: 0BSD
Issues: 0 open

stars

Forks: 3
Commits: 2,472 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

Duroktar/YuleLog

A terminal based Yule Log fireplace for all the kids in the corner with sweatpants.

Stack

Python pip

Updated: 2025-11-17
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-12-24
History: 5 history points
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 4 open

stars

Forks: 1
Commits: 22 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

sindresorhus/strip-json-comments-cli

Strip comments from JSON. Lets you use comments in your JSON files!

Stack

JavaScript npm

Updated: 2023-08-07
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-11-18
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

stars

Forks: 6
Commits: 16 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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snwfdhmp/simplehttp

Simple and lightweight http server for local files

Stack

GitHub topics

#cli #cli-utilities #http #http-server

Updated: 2023-03-06
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-02-20
History: 5 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 1 open

stars

Forks: 3
Commits: 12 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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Water-Run/treepp

tree++: A much better Windows `tree` command—more features, faster performance, and diff-level compatibility with the original `tree`. Implemented in Rust.

Archived

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#cli #command-line-tool #developer-tools #directory-tree #filesystem #gitignore

Updated: 2026-06-06
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2025-12-09
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 0 open

stars

Forks: 1
Commits: 47 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

SamVerschueren/mobisplash-cli

Mobile app splash screen generator

Stack

JavaScript npm

Updated: 2017-03-30
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-01-06
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

stars

Forks: 10
Commits: 7 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

sunsations/speed_read

speed_read: A simple terminal-based open source Spritz-alike

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2014-06-23
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-03-03
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

stars

Forks: 2
Commits: 13 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

sindresorhus/parse-columns-cli

Parse text columns, like the output of unix commands. Returns JSON that you can manipulate with tools like jq or underscore-cli.

Stack

JavaScript npm

Updated: 2021-11-04
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-07-07
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

stars

Forks: 5
Commits: 8 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

JosefVesely/img2ascii

🏞️ A command-line tool for converting images to ASCII art

Stack

GitHub topics

#ascii #ascii-art #c #cli #command-line #cross-platform

Updated: 2026-05-05
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2023-07-08
History: 8 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 2 open

stars

Forks: 5
Commits: 69 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

sindresorhus/windows-cli

Get metadata about the active window (title, id, bounds, owner, URL, etc)

Stack

JavaScript npm

Updated: 2024-04-30
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-04-04
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

stars

Forks: 5
Commits: 18 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

dolsup/cli-fireplace

🎉Enjoy your 🎁Christmas🎅 watching digital fireplace🔥 on your own terminal🖥

Stack

JavaScript npm

Updated: 2018-12-25
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-12-25
History: 5 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 0 open

stars

Forks: 1
Commits: 11 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

BRO3886/ical

A fast, ai-native macOS Calendar CLI built on go-eventkit

AI dev

Stack

Go Cobra Go modules

GitHub topics

#calendar #cli #eventkit #go #macos

Updated: 2026-06-21
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2026-02-11
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 3 open

stars

Forks: 11
Commits: 134 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

Shiphero/shbin

turns a Github repo into a pastebin

Stack

Python pytest uv

GitHub topics

#command-line-tool #gists #git #github #github-api #pastebin

Updated: 2025-04-22
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2022-07-18
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 17 open

stars

Forks: 4
Commits: 132 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

Dark-Kernel/tuisic

First of its kind, A simple TUI online music streaming application written in c++ with easy vim motions, now with support for Model Context Protocol (MCP)

Stack

C++ CMake

GitHub topics

#ai #archlinux #aur #cpp #discord #discord-rpc

Updated: 2026-06-28
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2024-11-25
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 7 open

stars

Forks: 6
Commits: 87 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

acrotron/aye-chat

Aye Chat: AI-powered terminal workspace

AI dev

Stack

Python pytest PEP 517 pip

Updated: 2026-06-24
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2025-10-03
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 10 open

stars

Forks: 8
Commits: 968 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

reflex-search/reflex

Reflex - The instant, code-aware local search engine.

AI dev

Stack

Rust Axum Cargo

Updated: 2026-07-05
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2025-10-31
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 2 open

stars

Forks: 6
Commits: 407 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

sggts04/dankcli

CLI Image Captioning Tool or Meme Generator which automatically adds whitespace and text to top

Stack

Python pip

GitHub topics

#cli #dankcli #dankmemes #generator #memes #pillow

Updated: 2019-05-31
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-03-14
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 1 open

stars

Forks: 6
Commits: 28 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

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