seirdy.one/content/about/uses.gmi

Here's the software I use. I've recently started to reduce my use of TUIs in favor of CLIs, for a variety of reasons. When possible, I try to use lightweight programs that can run on any machine, from a single-board computer to a giant desktop. I don't ever want to feel like I need to upgrade my hardware to do the same tasks as before: hardware upgrades should only be justified by my use-cases significantly changing, existing hardware being broken beyond repair, or upstream abandonment of security patches.

## Hardware

My main computer is a 2013 HP Elitebook 840 G1. It has a dual-core Intel i5-4300U CPU (Haswell), with simultaneous multithreading disabled.

## Environment

* OS: Fedora 36
* Wayland compositor: Sway
* Shell: zsh (interactive), dash (non-interactive/shell-scripts)
* Terminal Emulator: Foot. Sometimes gnome-terminal when I'm using a screen reader.

## Basic utilities:

* `$EDITOR`: Neovim
* Browser: Firefox for most pages, Chromium for apps, NetSurf when I'm low on battery.
* Coreutils alternatives: ripgrep, sd (better multiline regexes than sed), fd
* Music player: mpd, along with my mpd scripts
* Video player: three builds of mpv, two with a PGO run on different types of video (anime and live-action-with-filmgrain). Often paired with yt-dlp and mpv_sponsorblock
* Image viewer: mpv (one less program to keep track of), swayimg. Both support AVIF and JPEG-XL now.
* Session manager: tmux (I don't use it for tiling, Sway handles that)
* IRC client: WeeChat. Might use senpai eventually, if I can get it to play well with espeak-ng.
* News: Newsboat. I'm thinking of switching to a feed-to-IMAP or Maildir setup eventually so I can get sync and use mblaze, and replace a TUI with a CLI. Ideally something that supports WebSub.
* Screen reader: Orca

=> https://sr.ht/~seirdy/mpd-scripts/ mpd-scripts page
=> https://github.com/po5/mpv_sponsorblock mpv_sponsorblock
=> https://sr.ht/~taiite/senpai/ senpai

## Mail:

* Mail fetcher: mbsync
* SMTP client: msmtp
* routine tasks, viewing/filtering latest messages: mblaze
* MUA: mostly neomutt
* Viewing HTML mail: w3m-sandbox or edbrowse.

=> https://github.com/leahneukirchen/mblaze mblaze
=> https://git.sr.ht/~seirdy/bwrap-scripts/tree/trunk/item/w3m-sandbox w3m-sandbox

## Networking and pentesting:

* RustScan (don't use it on max settings without permission)
* q, a DNS client that supports DoH, DoH3, DoQ, and ODoH.
* rnp, a ping tool that supports TCP and QUIC "pings" to estimate handshake latency.
* both curl and xh for HTTP testing.
* kinvolk's wrk2 fork and bombardier for HTTP load-testing
* ssh-auditor

## Other tools:

* jq (I love writing jq programs)
* fzf
* z.lua
* msync
* wormhole-william
* rdrview
* Efficient Compression Tool (better than Zopfli/ZopfliPNG)
* zpaqfranz
* scc
* Pandoc
* ghq, a VCS repository manager in the style of $GOPATH

=> https://github.com/psanford/wormhole-william wormhole-william
=> https://github.com/eafer/rdrview rdrview
=> https://github.com/fhanau/Efficient-Compression-Tool Efficient Compression Tool
=> https://github.com/boyter/scc scc

## Services

* Migadu: email provider
* deSEC: managed DNS name servers
* Namecheap: domain registrar (not endorsed)
* Digital Ocean: VPS (not endorsed)

## What I don't use

These are tools that I don't use, or avoid using.

* system monitoring TUIs: I usually just run the command to view the resource I need to know about
* File managers: I prefer using the shell with fzf-based tab-completion that also features preview windows