As I have explained earlier, I am using Leafpad instead of gedit in my Ubuntu system. However, recent versions of Ubuntu does not have Leafpad available through APT any longer, you have to install it with Snap instead. This is quite annoying, since the Snap packaging of Leafpad is too restrictive, it cannot access hidden files in your home directory, nor anything in ~/bin/. This is not good, since I often want to use Leafpad to edit such files.

I have used self-hosted WordPress for this blog since its start in 2006, but I finally got fed up with having to frequently update WordPress itself and a bunch of plugins, or having to constantly worry about security issues. Since I am the only one publishing on this blog, I decided to switch to a static site generator instead, and I chose Hugo, mainly because it is easy to install and does not require any heavy runtime (most of its competitors require Python, Ruby or Node.

I have written about how to configure screen in XTerm to support Ctrl-Tab and convenient scrolling back in history. This has worked well for over a decade now, but it seems like screen is not developed very much any longer, and tmux has gained popularity as a more modern and actively developed alternative. So I decided to try it, and was able to replicate my setup with tmux instead of screen.