Leandro Farias

Leandro Farias maintains a focused catalog of Windows utilities that strip away graphical ceremony in favor of keyboard-driven speed; the single current offering, die-cli, exemplifies this philosophy by turning the mundane task of process termination into a htop-style terminal session where color-coded PIDs, CPU graphs, and memory bars update in real time and every key-stroke commits instantly—no nested dialogs, no “are you sure” delays, just highlight and kill. The tool is aimed at power users, developers, and DevOps technicians who routinely wrestle with runaway build scripts, zombie containers, or hung games and need an uncluttered view of system load coupled with the ability to wipe out multiple processes in one breath. Written in nimble C++ and distributed as a portable x64 executable, die-cli respects Windows security boundaries while still delivering the visceral satisfaction of instantaneous control, making it equally useful for emergency triage on a production box or for keeping a gaming rig lean during competitive play. Future utilities hinted on the author’s GitHub suggest the same minimal aesthetic may extend into log tailing, port monitoring, and service batch control, promising a growing suite of CLI instruments that treat the console as prime real estate rather than a legacy afterthought. All published software from Leandro Farias is available for free on get.nero.com, with downloads delivered through trusted Windows package managers such as winget, always fetching the newest release and permitting unattended batch installation of multiple titles.

die-cli

A fast, htop-inspired ASCII TUI for brutally killing Windows processes (no prompts, no mercy).

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