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CLI Tool Pick2026-06-28

boo: screen, rebuilt on Ghostty

boo is a young MIT-licensed Zig terminal multiplexer that keeps GNU screen’s simple session model while using Ghostty’s VT core for modern redraw fidelity.

CLI Tool Pick2026-06-27

ttl: traceroute with a real TUI

ttl is a Rust network diagnostic CLI/TUI that expands traceroute into a live investigation console with MTU discovery, ECMP clues, NAT detection, trace diffing, replay, and Prometheus export. It is practical to try today via Homebrew or Cargo, but the public community signal is still thin.

CLI Tool Pick2026-06-26

rgx: debug regexes inside your terminal

rgx is a Rust terminal UI for regex debugging with step-through execution, three engines, code generation, and optional ReDoS analysis — practical to try, but still light on community proof.

CLI Tool Pick2026-06-25

rura: a TUI scratchpad for building shell pipelines

rura (Rust, MIT, v1.6.0, 303★) is an interactive TUI that turns the terminal's edit-uparrow-rerun loop into a live pipeline editor — pipe data in, edit stages, watch output update in real time, with diff mode and context-aware completion.

CLI Tool Pick2026-06-24

swpui: the search-and-replace TUI your terminal workflow is missing

swpui (Rust, MIT/Apache-2.0, v0.9.0, 51★) — a case-aware search-and-replace TUI with per-file preview and zero runtime deps.

CLI Tool Pick2026-06-23

layerX: inspect Docker image layers — and fail the CI build if they're bloated

layerX (Go, MIT, v1.4.1, 72★) is a terminal TUI for Docker and Podman image layer inspection with two capabilities `dive` doesn't have: interactive side-by-side image comparison and a CI gate (`layerx ci`) with configurable thresholds and exit codes. Released June 12, 2026.

CLI Tool Pick2026-06-22

oyui: a TUI merge editor for jj and git

oyui (emilien-jegou/oyui) is a Rust ratatui TUI that replaces vimdiff as the interactive diff editor for Jujutsu (`jj split`, `jj diffedit`) and Git (`git difftool`) — 101 stars in two weeks from v0.1.0, scriptable via the Rune language with hot reload, GPL-3.0, install with `cargo install oyui`.

CLI Tool Pick2026-06-21

exosphere — SSH patch reports for your whole fleet

exosphere (mrdaemon/exosphere) is a Python CLI and TUI that SSHes into a fleet of Unix-like hosts in parallel and reports pending package updates and security advisories in a unified dashboard — no agent software on remote machines, no central server, just SSH key auth. MIT, 133 stars, 987 commits, 26 releases, v2.4.3. Install via `pipx install exosphere-cli`.

CLI Tool Pick2026-06-20

grabbit v5.0.2 — pull Reddit wallpapers from the terminal

grabbit (bbkane/grabbit) is a single statically-linked Go binary that pulls top images from any subreddit and drops them into a local directory for wallpaper rotation. v5.0.2 ships today, June 20, 2026, removing brew services support (migrate to launchd/systemd). MIT, 42 stars, 47 releases, zero dependencies, four install paths.

CLI Tool Pick2026-06-19

bmm: the Rust TUI bookmark manager built as a faster buku

bmm (dhth/bmm) is a 229★ MIT-licensed Rust TUI bookmark manager backed by SQLite and built on ratatui. Dhruv Thakur wrote it to replace buku after years of accumulated bookmarks caused performance degradation — the author benchmarks search at roughly 20× faster. Three install paths (Homebrew, cargo, prebuilt binaries for macOS/Linux). The ratatui maintainer Orhun Parmaksız publicly switched to it on release day. Main caveat: 14-month gap between feature releases; project is in slow maintenance mode but fully functional.

CLI Tool Pick2026-06-18

ku: the Kubernetes TUI that just got its MIT license

ku (bjarneo/ku) is a Go Bubble Tea Kubernetes TUI — lazygit-style layout, read-only by default, CRD support, 37 themes. Spent 5 days blocked by a missing license; MIT landed June 18. 338★ in 5 days from zero.

CLI Tool Pick2026-06-17

purple: manage your SSH fleet from the terminal

Rust/MIT TUI that syncs ~/.ssh/config with 16 cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure, Hetzner, DigitalOcean, Proxmox + 10 others), with live tunnel monitoring, Docker/Podman fleet management over SSH, and multi-host command execution. v3.22.1 shipped June 16, 2026 — 364 stars at roughly 3 per day since February.

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