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date: "2025-06-17T04:00:00-07:00"
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title: "Check-in 2025Q2"
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tags: ["tui","cli","nixos","xps"]
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categories: ["personal"]
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#image: ""
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#series: [""]
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summary: "Check point 2025Q2"
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---
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Well, aside from the [burst of posts](/posts/2025/06/tui-challenge-day-1/), it as been a spell since I last posted
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[something](/posts/2024/01/check-in-2024-01/). Sorry about that.
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# Computer
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Well, I think my little ['Challenge with NixOS'](/posts/2023/01/nixos-challenge-pt-1/) which I started way back in
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January 2023 has been passed. I have one local server, one local 'appliance', and one VPS *not* on NixOS. Everything
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else has been converted for a while. Keeping my laptops' config synced turned out to be a good thing. My [main
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laptop](/tags/xps) ate its drive just before work one morning, I was able to grab the [pixelbook](/tags/pixelbook) and
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start working as it was fully configured, and the needed data was synced in place. Nice.
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Speaking of pixelbooks, I picked up a 'new' 2017 PixelBook. This one is the i7 with a nvme drive and a battery in great
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shape. I can take it to the office and never have to plug it in using it for my video calls and music player.
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# Other stuff
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Still at the same job I started back November 2016. Yikes. I will try to update this more with more technical stuff, I
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hope.
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Oh, I changed the theme because the old one had not been updated in a long time, and I was getting tired of the security
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notifications.
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content/posts/2025/06/tui-challenge:-day-1.md
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date: "2025-06-08T04:00:00-07:00"
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title: "TUI Challenge: Day 1"
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tags: ["cli","tui"]
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categories: ["personal","sa"]
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#image: ""
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series: ["tuichallenge"]
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summary: "TUI Challenge starts"
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---
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*tap, tap* Is this thing on? When was the last time I published anything? Oh, back on [January 15, 2024](/posts/2024/01/check-in-2024-01). Oops.
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Well, I had to clean up a few things to get this back working with updates to [hugo](https://gohugo.io), the static blogging engine I use for the site.
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So, what prompted me to fire this up again, and actually make it work (unlike the last few times I was going to start this)?
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Well, I listen to a bunch of podcasts from [Jupiter Broadcasting](https://jupiterbroadcasting.com),
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including one called [Linux Unplugged](https://linuxunplugged.com), and they are running a [7 day TUI Challenge](https://github.com/JupiterBroadcasting/linux-unplugged/blob/main/challenges/TUI-Challenge.md).
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Now, since I normally read my email and RSS feeds in a TUI app, and I use VIM as my editor and IDE, I figured it would be fairly easy for me to take part.
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The two big things I use a GUI for are [web browsing with qutebrowser](https://www.qutebrowser.org) and watch youtube vids with MPV, I should be able to adapt.
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Anyway, Day 1 challenge is to write document using a TUI editor of at least 200 words. There are bonus points for using scripts to help things out, and I guess the script I use to start editing a file should work:
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```
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#!/usr/bin/env bash
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#===============================================================================
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#
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# FILE: dopost
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#
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# USAGE: ./dopost
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#
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# DESCRIPTION: make a new post for hugo
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#
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# OPTIONS: ---
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# REQUIREMENTS: ---
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# BUGS: ---
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# NOTES: ---
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# AUTHOR: Don Harper (), duck@duckland.org
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# ORGANIZATION:
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# CREATED: 02/02/2019 08:35:34 PM CDT
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# REVISION: Based off of genpost.sh
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#===============================================================================
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set -o nounset # Treat unset variables as an error
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trap onexit 1 2 3 15 ERR EXIT
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#--- onexit() -----------------------------------------------------
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# @param $1 integer (optional) Exit status. If not set, use `$?'
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function onexit() {
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local exit_status=${1:-$?}
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if [ "${exit_status}" == 0 ]
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then
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exit
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fi
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notify-send "Exiting ${myname} with $exit_status"
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cd
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exit "${exit_status}"
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}
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myname="$(basename ${0} .sh)"
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Title="untitled"
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Category="none"
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TAGS="tagless"
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while getopts "t:T:c:h" OPTIONS
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do
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case ${OPTIONS} in
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t) Title="$OPTARG" ;;
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c) Category="$OPTARG" ;;
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T) TAGS="$OPTARG" ;;
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*)
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echo "$0 -t '<title>' -c '<category>' [-T '<tags[,tags2]>']"
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exit 1
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;;
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esac
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done
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shift
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if [ "${Title}" == "untitled" ]
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then
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echo "Missing title"
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echo "$0 -t '<title>' -c '<category>' [-T '<tags[ tags2]>']"
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exit 1
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fi
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if [ "${Category}" == "none" ]
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then
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echo "Missing category"
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echo "$0 -t '<title>' -c '<category>' [-T '<tags[ tags2]>']"
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exit 1
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fi
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if $(echo "${TAGS}" | grep -q ' ')
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then
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TAGS=$(echo "${TAGS}" | sed 's/ /", "/g')
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fi
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BASE="${HOME}/src/WWW/sites/duckland.org"
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DATE=$(date +%F)
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YEAR=$(echo $DATE | awk -F- '{print $1}')
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MON=$(echo $DATE | awk -F- '{print $2}')
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Name=$(echo ${Title} | sed -e 's/^ //' -e 's/,//' -e 's/ ://' -e 's/ /-/g' -e 's/\?//' -e 's/\!//' | tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]' )
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cd ${BASE}
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git co draft
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printf "title - %s\nname - %s\n" "$Title" "$Name"
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OUTPUTDIR="${BASE}/content/posts/${YEAR}/${MON}/"
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mkdir -p ${OUTPUTDIR}
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OUTPUT="${OUTPUTDIR}/${Name}.md"
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echo "---" > ${OUTPUT}
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echo "date: \"${DATE}T04:00:00-07:00\"" >> ${OUTPUT}
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echo "title: \"${Title}\"" >> ${OUTPUT}
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echo "tags: [\"${TAGS}\"]" >> ${OUTPUT}
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echo "categories: [\"${Category}\"]" >> ${OUTPUT}
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echo "#image: \"\"" >> ${OUTPUT}
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echo "#series: [\"\"]" >> ${OUTPUT}
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echo "summary: \"\"" >> ${OUTPUT}
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echo "Victor_Hugo: \"true\"" >> ${OUTPUT}
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echo "Focus_Keyword: \"\"" >> ${OUTPUT}
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echo "---" >> ${OUTPUT}
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echo "" >> ${OUTPUT}
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#cd ~/src/www.duckland.org
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#tmux neww -n "New Post" -t 30 "cd ~/src/www.duckland.org ; hugo serve -D -F"
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#tmux split-window -h "${EDITOR} ${OUTPUT}"
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#tmux select-layout main-vertical
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#. ~/.myapps
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#$TERMPROG -e tmuxp load duckland
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tmuxinator start duckland
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```
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As the TUI Challenge has a scoring system, I am claiming 10 points for editing a file under vim, and an additional 10 points as my script does a bit of formating, for a total of 20 points.
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date: "2025-06-09T04:00:00-07:00"
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title: "TUI Challenge: Day 2"
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tags: ["cli","tui"]
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categories: ["personal","sa"]
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#image: ""
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series: ["tuichallenge"]
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summary: "Email in the Terminal!"
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---
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Hey, look! Another day, another post. Today's challenge is *Email Management*. Since I already live in
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[neomutt](https://neomutt.org), I should probably describe my setup.
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## Receiving Email and filtering
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Much to my shame, I am still receiving my email with Gmail. But, it is on my list to migrate somewhere else this year.
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I think I have narrowed it down to two providers, but that is not what I am doing today.
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I do have IMAP enabled on my account so I can read my email without going to gmail.com. For filtering, I use a tool
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called [gmailctl](https://github.com/mbrt/gmailctl) which allows me to control gmail's filters from my computer. It
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works by connecting to gmail and pulling down the filter definition file, and then firing up my default editor. Once I
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am happy with the changes, it will upload it back to gmail.
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To actually retrieve my emails, I use mbsync which is part of the [isync](https://isync.sourceforge.io/mbsync.html)
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suite. You follow the directions, and it will sync your email down. This tool will work with any IMAP server, so when I
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finally leave gmail, it will still work. One of the nice things is that since it is written in python, you can re-map
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folder (labels in gmail-speak) to something different locally. For example, I map *All Mail* on google's side to
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*All-Mail* on my side.
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I use a [systemd timer](https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Systemd/Timers) to schedule the sync runs.
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I also run [notmuch](https://notmuchemail.org) to index my mail so I can search it in my MUA (Mail User Agent) of
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choice.
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## Reading Email
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I have been using mainly a TUI to read my email since I started on the internet. Back in the beginning, it was because
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there where no GUI email applications, and it was before the WWW (yes, I am that old). Over the years, I have used elm
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(fun fact, for a while, I was the Debian package maintainer for elm!), pine, and an Emacs email client (do not remember the
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name anymore). But the client I have been using since I started using back when it was new is [mutt](https://mutt.org),
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although I have switched to [neomutt](https://neomutt.org) a while back. Neomutt is mutt with a bunch of patches
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included, but it is a great MUA on its own.
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One of the killer features (for me, anyway) is that I can configure neomutt to use notmuch and it makes searching for a
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specific email a breeze.
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For my address book, I use a program called [khard](https://github.com/lucc/khard) which I sync with my google address
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book using [vdirsyncer](https://github.com/pimutils/vdirsyncer) which I will talk more about on Day 6.
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## Sending Email
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I used to use gmail's SMTP service, but sometime this year, the have changed their sending limits to an aggressively low
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number which would cause me to not to be able to send an email for hours, sometimes days. I typically do not send a lot
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of emails (mainly less than 10 automated reports to myself a day), so this was annoying. I switched to using the free
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tier at [smtp2go](https://smtp2go.com) and I have had zero issues sending email since then. My needs to not really
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require any of their paid plans, but I am thinking about getting the smallest paid plan to help support the service.
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## Daily totals
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I come into today with 20 points. How did I do today? Well, the basic for setting up an email tui is 20 points, 5
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points for filtering, and 10 points for using a TUI address book for a daily total of 35, bring my total to 55 points!
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date: "2025-06-10T04:00:00-07:00"
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title: "TUI Challenge: Day 3"
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tags: ["cli","tui"]
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categories: ["personal","sa"]
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#image: ""
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series: ["tuichallenge"]
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summary: "A Web of Trouble"
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---
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# Day 3 of the TUI Challenge is about browsing the web in the terminal.
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[lynx](https://lynx.invisible-island.net) or [elinks](http://elinks.or.cz) back in the early days of the web when I had
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a slow connection like dial-up or a wireless modem from the late 1990's. Back then, web sites were much simpler than
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today. An advance web site might have tables! So, in those days, a text browser worked well. But, how about now in the
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era of Web 2.0 or even Web 3.0?
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The challenge today is to use a text browser to visit two web sites and summarize them. And then, things got hard.
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I was actually trying to use lynx for my daily web usage, and I was looking up how to configure
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[newsboat](https://newsboat.org) so I can forward an article via email now and later to add to my task tracker.
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The two sites I that I was trying to find the answer on I was trying to look at was [reddit](https://www.reddit.com) and
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[github](https://github.com) which gave problems. I think the 'new' Reddit has a lot of JavaScript which these two text
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browsers do not support. My solution was to use [old.reddit.com](https://old.reddut.com) which is the classical
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interface which is closer to Web 1.0.
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GitHub was all but useless in my text browsers. It was too hard to get past all the items normally hidden behind js
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menus. And, after a few page views, it stopped showing me anything from the repos I was trying to visit. I am not sure
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if the site thought I was an AI scraper and just stopped showing me anything or if there was something else.
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In the end, I was able to use old Reddit, Google Groups, and the newsboat web site to figure out what I wanted to do:
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```
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bind m article,articlelist pipe-to "neomutt -s\"RSS Article\" me@example.com" -- "Email article"
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```
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## Daily totals
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Score time! [Yesterday](/posts/2025/06/tui-challenge-day-2/) left us with 55 points. The challenge of doing research on
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at least two site and summarizing it is worth 20 points. In the bonus points include 5 for filling out a form which I
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did many times on my search engine page, which gives me 25 points for the day, and a running total of 80 points.
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date: "2025-06-11T04:00:00-07:00"
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title: "TUI Challenge: Day 4"
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tags: ["cli","tui"]
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categories: ["personal","sa"]
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#image: ""
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series: ["tuichallenge"]
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summary: "A Song For The Terminal"
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---
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# Day 4: Let the music play!
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The challenge is stream music from the terminal. Easy. I moved to self-hosting my music by
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using a server [navidrome](https://www.navidrome.org). I have been happy with this solution for a long time. I have a
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[an android client](https://f-droid.org/en/packages/github.daneren2005.dsub) which caches locally so I can listen on the
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go without killing my cell bill.
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For the desktop, I have been using [feishin](https://github.com/jeffvli/feishin) which is an electron app. I stumbled
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across [naviterm](https://gitlab.com/detoxify92/naviterm/) a couple of weeks ago. The author has been very receptive to
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issues and feature requests which is great. It connects to my navidrome server, and once I queue up a playlist, it
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hands off to [mpv](https://mpv.io) to play the music. Works like a treat. It also supports the same DBUS protocol that
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[playerctl](https://github.com/altdesktop/playerctl) supports so none of my scripts to display current song or change or
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pause songs needed to change to use it.
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## Daily totals
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Score time! [Yesterday](/posts/2025/06/tui-challenge-day-3/) left us with 80 points. Scoring today is pretty easy. 10
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points for playing music, 5 for creating a playlist (I have over 50), and 10 for streaming the music. So, 25 points
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today added to the 80 from yesterday gives us 105.
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date: "2025-06-12T04:00:00-07:00"
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title: "TUI Challenge: Day 5"
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tags: ["cli","tui"]
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categories: ["personal","sa"]
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#image: ""
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series: ["tuichallenge"]
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summary: "A Song For The Terminal"
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---
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# Day 5: File management.
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'Wait!' you say 'You live at the terminal, what is wrong with *ls*, *cp*, or *mv*?' Well, most
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of the time, that is fine, but there are times when I need to rename a bunch of files (cleaning up my MP3 collection) or
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quickly review some source files. In those cases, what do I use?
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## vifm
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[vifm](https://github.com/vifm/vifm) is a 'file manager with curses interface, which provides Vim-like environment for
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managing objects within file systems, extended with some useful ideas from mutt.' When you start it up, you are great
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with a split window with directory listing on both side. Using the normal vi keys moving around. You can select
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multiple files, and then do things like mass rename or move the file to the other pane. Very quick and easy. I have
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used this to bulk rename mp3s in a directory to my new naming standard. I could write a script, but I have messed that
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up in the past, and part of why I need this type of tool to clean up.
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## ranger
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[ranger](https://github.com/ranger/ranger) is a 'VIM-inspired filemanager for the console'. This is a tri-pane
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arrangement Contents of the parent directory, current directory, details of what you are looking at. This last part is
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the useful part. If you have selected a directory, it will show the contents of the directory. If you are looking at a
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text file, it will show the contents of the file. The lets you review many files without using a pager or an editor to
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review the contents.
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## Daily totals
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Score time! [Yesterday](/posts/2025/06/tui-challenge-day-4/) left us with 105 points. On the score. Using a tui
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filemanager, 10 points. 5 points for the bulk renaming. I have done any scripting with these type of tools, so no more
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points there. Total today, 15 points, and a grand running total is now 120.
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date: "2025-06-13T04:00:00-07:00"
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title: "TUI Challenge: Day 6"
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tags: ["cli","tui"]
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categories: ["personal","sa"]
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#image: ""
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series: ["tuichallenge"]
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summary: "Every Task In Its Place"
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---
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# Day 6: Task Management
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Another fairly easy day for me as I already mainly use TUI and CLI for task and calendar management.
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## Task management
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```
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Monthly Burndown
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| . . . . . X X X . . X . . . . . . . .
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| X X X X X X X X X X X . X X X X X . . . .
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| X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X . X X X
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10 11 12 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 01 02 03 04 05 06
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2023 2024 2025
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Net Fix Rate: 1.8/d
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Estimated completion: 2025-08-03 (7w)
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```
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I have been using [taskwarrior](https://taskwarrior.org) for years now. It is a simple command line tool for
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maintaining your task list. It stores its data in simple text files so backing it up is easy. I use a simple TUI
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called [vit](https://github.com/vit-project/vit) for viewing and interacting with my tasks.
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I use taskwarrior for a mix of things I have to do for the family and work, and as a reminder system for websites,
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projects, and/or media I want to visit but I do not have time for. I even wrote a script to convert emails from neomutt
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or news articles from [newsboat](https://newsboat.org), a TUI RSS reader, to tasks:
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```
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#!/usr/bin/env bash
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set -o nounset # Treat unset variables as an error
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tmpfile=$(mktemp)
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cat /dev/stdin > "${tmpfile}"
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subj=$(grep -E ^'(Subject|Title)': "${tmpfile}" | sed -e 's/^Subject: //' -e 's/^Title: //')
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id=$(task add pri:H due:2d +email "${subj}" | grep ^Created | sed 's/^Created task \(.*\)./\1/')
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cat "${tmpfile}" | onenote "${id}" -
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echo "${id}"
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rm -f "${tmpfile}"
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```
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I also have a daily report sent to me in email with my current top tasks, any due today or overdue, as well as my
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schedule over the next three days.
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To keep all my tasks together, I use [taskd](https://gothenburgbitfactory.org/taskd/) which I run in a
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[container](https://github.com/ogarcia/docker-taskd)..
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## Calendar
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For managing my calendar, I use [khal](https://github.com/pimutils/khal/) for my text based calendar. For the above
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mentioned reporting, I use `khal` to list my events. When I need a TUI, I use `ikhal` which is part of the khal
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package. This is a nice TUI with vim keys for navigation and gives me a great overview of my events.
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I sync this using [vdirsyncer](https://github.com/pimutils/vdirsyncer) to sync my calendars (and address book) with my
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[NextCloud](https://nextcloud.com) server. I use a custom vdirsyncer profile to sync NextCloud with Google for the
|
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shared family calendars.
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## Daily totals
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After [yesterday](/posts/2025/06/tui-challenge-day-5/) I have accrued 120 points. How does today help that score? Well,
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completion of task management and calendars nets 20 points, with 5 bonus points for syncing and 10 bonus points for
|
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scripting reports using these tools, for a total of 35 points today, and a running total of 155 points.
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69
content/posts/2025/06/tui-challenge:-day-7.md
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69
content/posts/2025/06/tui-challenge:-day-7.md
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@ -0,0 +1,69 @@
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---
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date: "2025-06-14T04:00:00-07:00"
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title: "TUI Challenge: Day 7"
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tags: ["cli","tui"]
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categories: ["personal","sa"]
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#image: ""
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series: ["tuichallenge"]
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summary: "This is the end, my friend"
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---
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# Day 7: System Monitoring
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Today's task was around system monitoring which is something I have used before as I do not have any GUI system
|
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monitoring apps installed.
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||||
|
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 _clockwise, top left: [glances](https://github.com/nicolargo/glances),
|
||||
[trippy](https://github.com/fujiapple852/trippy/), [bottom](https://github.com/ClementTsang/bottom),
|
||||
[btop](https://github.com/aristocratos/btop)_
|
||||
|
||||
Most of the time, when you laptop/server is running great, you do not worry about what is running or how much CPU/RAM is
|
||||
being consumed. But, then you notice that program start-up seemed awfully slow or that remote site was a bit slow or
|
||||
did not respond at all. What now? Monitoring tools to the rescue!
|
||||
|
||||
## [glances](https://github.com/nicolargo/glances)
|
||||
I just found this tool recently. It gives a great overview of not just what process are running, but how your network
|
||||
interfaces are doing, disk i/o as well as filesystem usage, and an overview of the IRQ in use. Truly, your system at a
|
||||
glance. The only metric it is missing for me is temperature of the CPU and drives.
|
||||
|
||||
## [trippy](https://github.com/fujiapple852/trippy/)
|
||||
Trippy is another new find for me. It is traceroute, but all TUI up. It is easy to read, has a stop-light icon on the
|
||||
far right to let you know the status of each hop. Nice.
|
||||
|
||||
## [bottom](https://github.com/ClementTsang/bottom)
|
||||
Bottom is another system resource monitor, but instead of just columns of numbers, you get a real-time chart of CPU,
|
||||
RAM, and network usage, along with an overview of system tempatures, disk usage (but not disk I/O), and a process
|
||||
overview. This is a great tool to leave up running while you are trying to track down some issue as you can see the
|
||||
historical trends.
|
||||
|
||||
## [btop](https://github.com/aristocratos/btop)
|
||||
btop is my go-to top replacement. I even have a bash alias for top calling btop: `alias top=btop` and a key sequence
|
||||
for my tmux config to call it up: `bind '~' split-window "exec btop"`. btop shows the same types of information as
|
||||
bottom, but goes into more details. Disk display, for example, has not just space used but disk I/O as well. It
|
||||
offers a lot of configuration options. For example, in the above picture, it is using the catppuccin_mocha theme to
|
||||
match the rest of my desktop, both GUI and TUI apps. Nice.
|
||||
|
||||
## Challenge
|
||||
The challenge today was to use the tools at least twice and note an observation. In the above picture, I was just
|
||||
starting a NixOS update and rebuild, so you can see the CPU, RAM, and network starting to get used more.
|
||||
|
||||
## Daily totals
|
||||
[Yesterday](/posts/2025/06/tui-challenge-day-6/) left me with 155 points. Today's basic challenge was worth 10 points,
|
||||
with a bonus of 5 points for customizing the display of the tool (btop's theme). I did not do the other bonus of
|
||||
scripting alerts as I already have another system for that. So, 15 points today, brings the total to 170.
|
||||
|
||||
## Challenge Bonus points
|
||||
There is a bonus 30 points up for grabs if I use a terminal multiplexer. As seen in the picture above, that is tmux
|
||||
with the first pane split into four to show the tools off, but I also have panes for my email, RSS reader, mastodon
|
||||
client, and ssh shells on a couple other machines.
|
||||
|
||||
And for added geek points:
|
||||
```
|
||||
[don@loki:~] $ tmux list-sessions
|
||||
chat: 2 windows (created Sat Jun 14 22:34:14 2025)
|
||||
duckland: 3 windows (created Sat Jun 14 22:44:28 2025) (attached)
|
||||
loki: 5 windows (created Sat Jun 14 22:29:16 2025)
|
||||
nixos: 2 windows (created Sat Jun 14 22:29:49 2025)
|
||||
```
|
||||
|
||||
Which brings my grand total to 200!
|
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