From e9446563f6215e6ccf4a0ef73666dba278b15955 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Don Harper Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2019 06:33:18 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] New article: What Do I Use Revisited --- .../post/2019/07/what-do-i-use-revisited.md | 35 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 35 insertions(+) create mode 100644 content/post/2019/07/what-do-i-use-revisited.md diff --git a/content/post/2019/07/what-do-i-use-revisited.md b/content/post/2019/07/what-do-i-use-revisited.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..2d9a2fae --- /dev/null +++ b/content/post/2019/07/what-do-i-use-revisited.md @@ -0,0 +1,35 @@ ++++ +title = "What Do I Use Revisited" +subtitle = "A look back" + +# Add a summary to display on homepage (optional). +summary = "Revisiting an old article" + +date = 2019-07-29T11:00:00 +draft = false + +# Tags and categories +# For example, use `tags = []` for no tags, or the form `tags = ["A Tag", "Another Tag"]` for one or more tags. +tags = ["cli"] +categories = ["software"] +# Series (optional). +# Otherwise, set `series = []`. +# series = ["series1"] + ++++ + +A long time ago, I have a blog called something living at http://cli.duckland.org. The first article on it was called [What Do I Use?]({{}}) which listed some of the software I used on a daily basis. I thought it would be worth revisiting. + +Oddly enough, I am still using a lot of the same or very similar stuff: + +|Past|Preset|Comments| +|:---|:-----|:-------| +|[bash](http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/%7Echet/bash/bashtop.html) - my shell of choice|Still Bash|Why change something that works| +|[screen](http://www.gnu.org/software/screen) - a shell multiplexer and more|tmux|So much better| +|mutt-ng - a mua on steroids|[mutt](https://mutt.org)|Mainstream finally caught up| +|centericq - IM. How do you stay in touch?|nothing|CLI chat is mainly dead, sadly| +|snownews - an RSS feed reader|[newsboat](https://www.newsboat.org)|Feed readers are still a thing| +|calcurse - a calendar/todo manger|Sadly, Google Calendar|I know| +|bashblogger - the CMS for this site|[Hugo](https://gohugo.com)|Much better solution, and maintained| + +Now, I know my computing needs are different from many, and my tool set reflect the facts that I have been in system administration or systems engineering for 30+ years (dang, I am getting old), but I find it interesting that I am still using the basically the same tools 13+ years later.