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title = "What Do I Use Revisited"
subtitle = "A look back"

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date = 2019-07-29T11:00:00
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A long time ago, I have a blog called something living at cli.duckland.org.  The first article on it was called [What Do I Use?]({{<ref "/posts/2006/06/what-do-i-use.md">}}) 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](https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/) - my shell of choice|Still Bash|Why change something that works|
|[screen](https://www.gnu.org/software/screen) - a shell multiplexer and more|[tmux](https://github.com/tmux/tmux/wiki)|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.io)|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.