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+++ title = "What Do I Use Revisited" subtitle = "A look back"
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date = 2019-07-29T11:00:00 draft = false
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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 - my shell of choice | Still Bash | Why change something that works |
| screen - a shell multiplexer and more | tmux | So much better |
| mutt-ng - a mua on steroids | mutt | 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 | Feed readers are still a thing |
| calcurse - a calendar/todo manger | Sadly, Google Calendar | I know |
| bashblogger - the CMS for this site | Hugo | 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.