Use Vim to send email and check your calendar
Last year, I brought you 19 days of new (to you) productivity tools for 2019. This year, I’m taking a different approach: building an environment that will allow you to be more productive in the new year, using tools you may or may not already be using. read...
What's your favorite Linux distribution?
What’s your favorite Linux distribution? Take our 7th annual poll. Some have come and gone, but there are hundreds of Linux distributions alive and well today. The combination of distribution, package manager, and desktop creates an endless amount of customized environments for Linux users. We asked the community of writers what their favorite is and why. While there were some commonalities (Fedora and Ubuntu were popular...
What 2020 brings for the developer, and more industry trends
As part of my role as a senior product marketing manager at an enterprise software company with an open source development model, I publish a regular update about open source community, market, and industry trends for product marketers, managers, and other influencers. Here are five of my and their favorite articles from that update. read...
Use tmux to create the console of your dreams
Last year, I brought you 19 days of new (to you) productivity tools for 2019. This year, I’m taking a different approach: building an environment that will allow you to be more productive in the new year, using tools you may or may not already be using. read...
Run multiple consoles at once with this open source window environment
Last year, I brought you 19 days of new (to you) productivity tools for 2019. This year, I’m taking a different approach: building an environment that will allow you to be more productive in the new year, using tools you may or may not already be using. read...
A guide to staying organized with open source tools
With so many tools on the web offered as services, there’s more to getting organized than just choosing the most convenient online vendor. You have to think of your system of organization as part of your product, whether that’s personal productivity or a software project you ship to hundreds or thousands of users. Using open source isn’t a matter of brand loyalty. Open source is about you owning the tools that enable...
