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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.

Environment

• OS: Fedora 36
• Wayland compositor: Sway
• Shell: zsh
• 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)
• 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 an 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

mpd-scripts page

mpv_sponsorblock

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.

mblaze

w3m-sandbox

Other tools:

• jq (I love writing jq programs)
• fzf
• z.lua
• msync
• wormhole-william
• rdrview
• Efficient Compression Tool (better than ZopfliPNG)
• RustScan (don't use it on max settings without permission)
• scc
• Pandoc

wormhole-william

rdrview

Efficient Compression Tool

scc

What I don't use

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

• system monitoring TUIs: I 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