Edit text on Linux with KWrite and Kate
A text editor is often a good example application to demonstrate what a programming framework is capable of producing. I myself have written at least three example text editors in articles about wxPython and PyQt, and Java. The reason they’re seen as easy apps to create is because the frameworks provide so much of the code that’s hardest to write. I think that’s also the reason that most operating systems provide a...
A guide to installing applications on Linux
When you want to try a new app on your phone, you open your app store and install the app. It’s simple, quick, and efficient. In this model of providing applications, phone vendors ensure that you know exactly where to go to get an app, and that developers with apps to distribute know where to put their apps so people can find them. read more Powered by...
Archive files on your Linux desktop with Ark for KDE
When I finish with a project, I often like to take all the files I’ve created for the project and put them into an archive. It not only saves space, but it gets those files out of my way, and prevents them from turning up as results when I use find and grep to search through files I consider current. read more Powered by...
Continuously debug your open source project with OSS-Fuzz
OSS-Fuzz is a free service that continuously runs fuzzers for open source projects. This GitHub repository manages the service and enrolling in it is handled by pull requests. Once a project has integrated with OSS-Fuzz, the fuzzers affiliated with that project run daily—continuously and indefinitely. OSS-Fuzz emails maintainers when a bug is found and also has a dashboard with details about all issues found (stack traces, artifacts...
5 ways LibreOffice supports accessibility
LibreOffice.org is my preferred productivity suite, and I’ve covered how I use it both as a graphical office suite as well as a terminal command in the past. In this article, I want to focus on how LibreOffice supports people using assistive technology. read more Powered by...
Manage your calendar from the Linux terminal with the konsolekalendar command
I’m a KDE user, and for years I’ve been on a seemingly endless journey of discovery with the Plasma Desktop. If you were to ask me in public, I’d probably claim to know everything there is to know about the desktop I use every day of my life. But in truth, I’ve actually only just scratched the surface. read more Powered by...
