Control your Raspberry Pi with Lua
Control your Raspberry Pi with Lua alansmithee Tue, 03/14/2023 – 03:00 Lua is a sometimes misunderstood language. It’s different from other languages, like Python, but it’s a versatile extension language that’s widely used in game engines, frameworks, and more. Overall, I find Lua to be a valuable tool for developers, letting them enhance and expand their projects in some powerful ways. You can download and run stock Lua as Seth...
7 questions for the OSI board candidates
7 questions for the OSI board candidates Luis Mon, 03/13/2023 – 03:00 The Open Source Initiative (OSI) is a non-profit organization that promotes open source that maintains and evaluates compliance with the Open Source Definition. Every year the OSI holds elections for its board of directors. It has become somewhat of a tradition for me to write questions for OSI board candidates. In past years, I’ve asked questions about...
Monitor Kubernetes cloud costs with open source tools
Monitor Kubernetes cloud costs with open source tools mattray Mon, 03/13/2023 – 03:00 Kubernetes is a powerful platform for managing dynamic containerized applications in the cloud, but it may be difficult to understand where costs are incurred. Managing the cost efficiency of Kubernetes resources can be a challenge. That’s where OpenCost comes in. OpenCost is a cloud cost monitoring tool that integrates seamlessly with...
Keep the solar system in your pocket with a Raspberry Pi
Keep the solar system in your pocket with a Raspberry Pi cherrybomb Mon, 03/13/2023 – 03:00 In my previous article, I talked about Stellarium in a web browser. This stellar software allows for a 3D view of your local sky, with amazing telescopic and scripting features. In this article, I’ll show you how to put those stars in your pocket using a Raspberry Pi 4, along with scripting some animations for fun. If you remember...
Our favorite tech books written by women
Our favorite tech books written by women AmyJune Sun, 03/12/2023 – 03:00 Whether you’re a fast reader or someone who takes a book at a leisurely pace, a whole month is an ample time to explore a new book. As March is Women’s History Month, we asked Opensource.com contributors to tell us about their favorite books by women authors. Leadership books As an engineer turned agency CTO, one book I consider “required...
Open source reimagines the traditional keyboard
Open source reimagines the traditional keyboard luisteia Sat, 03/11/2023 – 03:00 After one-hundred years of evolution in typewriting capability, our keyboard layout remains essentially the same: A rectangular board with apparently random clustered keys. Why is this, and how can we do better? Keyboard origins After the first mechanical typewriters appeared in the early 1900s, the entire typing effort was human-powered via rather...
