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hyperfine is a command-line benchmarking tool. It’s designed to measure the full execution time of a program. This open source tool is written in the Rust programming language.

ASCIIQuarium is a short Perl script that lets you embrace aquatic nature from your terminal. It’s an aquarium/sea animation in ASCII art.

Natural language processing (NLP) is a set of techniques for using computers to detect in human language the kinds of things that humans detect automatically.

Let’s start our candy adventure with WallGen. It’s a small command-line utility that generates HQ poly wallpapers with only a few text arguments for inputs. Depending on these arguments, you can create shape-based patterns, randomly filled surfaces, and even image-based patterns.

There’s a new music player on the block. It’s called Violin, seeing its first release in March this year. The author bills his multimedia app as “… fast, lightweight, and minimalistic desktop music player”.

In mathematics, iterated function systems (IFSs) are a method of constructing fractals; the resulting fractals are often self-similar. If you want an introduction to IFS fractals, give IFStile a whirl. Create your own IFS fractals with this useful tool.

peco (pronounced peh-koh) is a CLI utility that filters text interactively. The tool is written in the Go programming language. This utility is designed to view and filter finite amounts of data, such as file content or small sets of streaming data.

cli-visualizer is a command-line visualizer. Music visualization generates animated imagery based on a piece of music. The imagery is generated and rendered in real time and in a way synchronized with the music as it is played. Good music visualization seeks a high degree of visual correlation between a musical track’s spectral characteristics such as frequency and amplitude.

LanguageTool is a free and open source proofreading tool for English, German, Spanish, Russian, and more than 25 other languages.

LyricPad is a free and open source lyrics viewer written in C++ and uses Qt, a free and open-source widget toolkit for creating graphical user interfaces. LyricPad relies on Python code and back-end.

McFly is a small utility a tiny utility that replaces the functionality offered by Bash’s ctrl-r with an intelligent search engine.

Ulauncher is a fast application launcher for Linux. It has a minimal design, dependent on only a few resources, very fast, and works on virtually all Linux desktops. The software is written in Python, using GTK+.

The Linux platform has matured into an excellent way of listening to streaming music services. There are clients available for most of the popular music streaming services. But what if you want a single app that covers the very popular ones without straying away from the Linux terminal. Step forward Tizonia.

The focus of this article is to select the finest CoffeeScript books which help programmers become proficient coding in this language. The books selected help developers to take full advantage of the power of CoffeeScript.

Continuing our theme of reviewing free internet radio players, here's our verdict on Curseradio. It offers a curses interface for browsing and playing an OPML directory of internet radio streams.

The focus of this article is to select the finest free Haskell books which help programmers master this language, and develop an in-depth understanding of the benefits that this programming language offers. Each book is available to download without payment. Some of the books are available to purchase too.

mdless is a utility that provides a formatted and highlighted view of Markdown files in a console. The software is free and open source.

StreamTuner2 is a GUI for browsing internet radio directories, music collections, and video services – grouped by genres or categories. It runs your preferred audio player or streamripper for recording.

Abricotine is an open source, cross-platform Markdown editor built for the desktop with inline preview functionality.

MapSCII is a Node.js based Vector Tile to Braille and ASCII renderer for xterm-compatible terminals. It’s billed as the whole world in your console.